Circuits and Systems

K Chenaoua, A Bouridane, F Kurugollu
2003 ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International conference   unpublished
In this paper, a new technique is proposed for the segmentation of color images. The technique is based on the use of the sigma filter and multithresholding of 2-band histograms. A sigma filter is first applied to smooth out regions while keeping edges. Histograms are then computed, smoothed and downsampled. A peak picking algorithm finds the predominant peaks in the histograms. A concordance process between the dominant peaks is performed to determine the corresponding peaks in the histograms.
more » ... Labels are assigned to corresponding peaks. The resulting histograms are partitioned into regions having the right labels. The partitioned histograms are used to segment the R, G and B bands. Finally, the segmented bands are fused together to give the final segmented image. For pre-prints please write to:abstracts@kfupm.edu.sa
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