Corcoran, Padraig, Winstanley, Adam C. and Mooney, Peter (2011) Complementary texture and intensity gradient estimation and fusion for watershed segmentation. Machine Vision and Applications, 22. pp. 1027-1045. ISSN 0932-8092
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Abstract
In this paper, we identify two current challenges
associated with watershed segmentation algorithms which
attempt to fuse the visual cues of texture and intensity. The
first challenge is that most existing techniques use a competing
gradient set which does not allow boundaries to be
defined in terms of both visual cues. The second challenge
is that these techniques fail to account for the spatial uncertainty
inherent in texture gradients. We present a watershed
segmentation algorithm which provides a suitable solution
to both these challenges and minimises the spatial uncertainty
in boundary localisation. This is achieved by a novel
fusion algorithm which uses morphological dilation to integrate
intensity and texture gradients.Aquantitative and qualitative
evaluation of results is provided demonstrating that our
algorithm outperforms three existing watershed algorithms.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | The definitive version of this article is available at DOI: 10.1007/s00138-010-0310-z © Springer-Verlag 2010 |
Keywords: | Feature fusion; Spatial uncertainty; Texture; Watershed segmentation; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG |
Item ID: | 5830 |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s00138-010-0310-z |
Depositing User: | Peter Mooney |
Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2015 17:24 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Machine Vision and Applications |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/5830 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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