Automatic salient object segmentation using saliency map and color segmentation

A new method for automatic salient object segmentation is presented.Salient object segmentation is an important research area in the field of object recognition,image retrieval,image editing,scene reconstruction,and 2D/3D conversion.In this work,salient object segmentation is performed using saliency map and color segmentation.Edge,color and intensity feature are extracted from mean shift segmentation(MSS)image,and saliency map is created using these features.First average saliency per segment image is calculated using the color information from MSS image and generated saliency map.Then,second average saliency per segment image is calculated by applying same procedure for the first image to the thresholding,labeling,and hole-filling applied image.Thresholding,labeling and hole-filling are applied to the mean image of the generated two images to get the final salient object segmentation.The effectiveness of proposed method is proved by showing 80%,89%and 80%of precision,recall and F-measure values from the generated salient object segmentation image and ground truth image.

A Study on the Influence of Luminance L* in the L*a*b* Color Space during Color Segmentation

In this paper an evaluation of the influence of luminance L* at the L*a*b* color space during color segmentation is presented. A comparative study is made between the behavior of segmentation in color images using only the Euclidean metric of a* and b* and an adaptive color similarity function defined as a product of Gaussian functions in a modified HSI color space. For the evaluation synthetic images were particularly designed to accurately assess the performance of the color segmentation. The testing system can be used either to explore the behavior of a similarity function (or metric) in different color spaces or to explore different metrics (or similarity functions) in the same color space. From the results is obtained that the color parameters a* and b* are not independent of the luminance parameter L* as one might initially assume.

Color-texture based unsupervised segmentation using JSEG with fuzzy connectedness

Color quantization is bound to lose spatial information of color distribution. If too much necessary spatial distribution information of color is lost in JSEG, it is difficult or even impossible for JSEG to segment image correctly. Enlightened from segmentation based on fuzzy theories, soft class-map is constracted to solve that problem. The definitions of values and other related ones are adjusted according to the soft class-map. With more detailed values obtained from soft class map, more color distribution information is preserved. Experiments on a synthetic image and many other color images illustrate that JSEG with soft class-map can solve efficiently the problem that in a region there may exist color gradual variation in a smooth transition. It is a more robust method especially for images which haven＇ t been heavily blurred near boundaries of underlying regions.

Color space lip segmentation for drivers＇ fatigue detection

to the chroma distribution diversity （CDD） between lip color and skin color, the lip color area is segmented by the back propagation neural network （BPNN） with three typical color features. Isolated noisy points of the lip color area in binary image are eliminated by a proposed re- gion connecting algorithm. An improved integral projection algorithm is presented to locate the lip boundary. Whether a driver is fatigued is recognized by the ratio of the frame number of the images with mouth opening continuously to the total image frame number in every 20s. The experiments show that the proposed algorithm provides higher correct rate and reliability for fatigue driving detec- tion, and is superior to the single color feature-based method in the lip color segmention. Besides, it improves obviously the accuracy and speed of the lip boundary location compared with the traditional integral projection algrothm.

Adaptive Segmentation for Unconstrained Iris Recognition

In standard iris recognition systems,a cooperative imaging framework is employed that includes a light source with a near-infrared wavelength to reveal iris texture,look-and-stare constraints,and a close distance requirement to the capture device.When these conditions are relaxed,the system’s performance significantly deteriorates due to segmentation and feature extraction problems.Herein,a novel segmentation algorithm is proposed to correctly detect the pupil and limbus boundaries of iris images captured in unconstrained environments.First,the algorithm scans the whole iris image in the Hue Saturation Value(HSV)color space for local maxima to detect the sclera region.The image quality is then assessed by computing global features in red,green and blue(RGB)space,as noisy images have heterogeneous characteristics.The iris images are accordingly classified into seven categories based on their global RGB intensities.After the classification process,the images are filtered,and adaptive thresholding is applied to enhance the global contrast and detect the outer iris ring.Finally,to characterize the pupil area,the algorithm scans the cropped outer ring region for local minima values to identify the darkest area in the iris ring.The experimental results show that our method outperforms existing segmentation techniques using the UBIRIS.v1 and v2 databases and achieved a segmentation accuracy of 99.32 on UBIRIS.v1 and an error rate of 1.59 on UBIRIS.v2.

Color-texture segmentation using JSEG based on Gaussian mixture modeling

An improved approach for J-value segmentation （JSEG） is presented for unsupervised color image segmentation. Instead of color quantization algorithm, an automatic classification method based on adaptive mean shift （AMS） based clustering is used for nonparametric clustering of image data set. The clustering results are used to construct Gaussian mixture modelling （GMM） of image data for the calculation of soft J value. The region growing algorithm used in JSEG is then applied in segmenting the image based on the multiscale soft J-images. Experiments show that the synergism of JSEG and the soft classification based on AMS based clustering and GMM overcomes the limitations of JSEG successfully and is more robust.

Color image segmentation using mean shift and improved ant clustering

To improve the segmentation quality and efficiency of color image,a novel approach which combines the advantages of the mean shift(MS) segmentation and improved ant clustering method is proposed.The regions which can preserve the discontinuity characteristics of an image are segmented by MS algorithm,and then they are represented by a graph in which every region is represented by a node.In order to solve the graph partition problem,an improved ant clustering algorithm,called similarity carrying ant model(SCAM-ant),is proposed,in which a new similarity calculation method is given.Using SCAM-ant,the maximum number of items that each ant can carry will increase,the clustering time will be effectively reduced,and globally optimized clustering can also be realized.Because the graph is not based on the pixels of original image but on the segmentation result of MS algorithm,the computational complexity is greatly reduced.Experiments show that the proposed method can realize color image segmentation efficiently,and compared with the conventional methods based on the image pixels,it improves the image segmentation quality and the anti-interference ability.

Color Image Segmentation Based on HSI Model

he objective of the research is to develop a fast procedure for segmenting typical videophone images. In this paper, a new approach to color image segmentation based on HSI(Hue, Saturation, Intensity) color model is reported. It is in contrast to the conventional approaches by using the three components of HSI color model in succession. This strategy makes the segmentation procedure much fast and effective. Experimental results with typical “headandshoulders” real images taken from videophone sequences show that the new appproach can fulfill the application requirements.

Color Cell Image Segmentation Based on Chan-Vese Model for Vector-Valued Images

In this paper, we propose a color cell image segmentation method based on the modified Chan-Vese model for vectorvalued images. In this method, both the cell nuclei and cytoplasm can be served simultaneously from the color cervical cell image. Color image could be regarded as vector-valued images because there are three channels, red, green and blue in color image. In the proposed color cell image segmentation method, to segment the cell nuclei and cytoplasm precisely in color cell image, we should use the coarse-fine segmentation which combined the auto dual-threshold method to separate the single cell connection region from the original image, and the modified C-V model for vectorvalued images which use two independent level set functions to separate the cell nuclei and cytoplasm from the cell body. From the result we can see that by using the proposed method we can get the nuclei and cytoplasm region more accurately than traditional model.

Color and Texture Segmentation Using an Unified MRF Model

The color image segmentation problem has two main issues to be solved. The proper choice of a color model and the choice of an appropriate image model are the key issues in color image segmentation. In this work, Ohta (I1, I2, I3) is taken as the color model and different variants of Markov Random Field (MRF) models are proposed. In this regard, a Compound Markov Random Field (COMRF) model is porposed to take care of inter-color-plane and intra-color-plane interactions as well. In continuation to this model, a Constrained Compound Markov Random Field Model (CCOMRF) has been proposed to model the color images. The color image segmentation problem has been formulated in an unsupervised framework. The performance of the above proposed models has been compared with the standard MRF model and some of the state-of-the-art methods, and found to exhibit improved performance.

Research of Natural Gesture Recognition and Interactive Technology Compatible with YCb Crand HSV Color Space

In view of the current gesture recognition algorithm based on skin color segmentation is not flexible and has weak resistance to the environment, this paper puts forward a new method of skin color modeling to improve the adaptability of gesture segmentation when it face to different states. The modeling built by double color space instead of only one is compatible both in YCbCr and HSV color space to training the Gaussian model which can update the threshold value for binarization. Finally, this paper designed a natural gesture recognition and interactive systems based on the double color space model. It has shown that the system has a good interactive experience in different environments.

Method for Segmenting Tomato Plants in Uncontrolled Environments

Segmenting vegetation in color images is a complex task, especially when the background and lighting conditions of the environment are uncontrolled. This paper proposes a vegetation segmentation algorithm that combines a supervised and an unsupervised learning method to segment healthy and diseased plant images from the background. During the training stage, a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) neural network is applied to create different color groups from a set of images containing vegetation, acquired from a tomato greenhouse. The color groups are labeled as vegetation and non-vegetation and then used to create two color histogram models corresponding to vegetation and non-vegetation. In the online mode, input images are segmented by a Bayesian classifier using the two histogram models. This algorithm has provided a qualitatively better segmentation rate of images containing plants’ foliage in uncontrolled environments than the segmentation rate obtained by a color index technique, resulting in the elimination of the background and the preservation of important color information. This segmentation method will be applied in disease diagnosis of tomato plants in greenhouses as future work.

Research on Recognition of Color Landmark

Landmark plays an important role in the visual navigation of Autonomous Land Vehicles.This paper studies the subject of segmentation and recognition of color landmark in natural environments,and suggests a new method which employs the color region distributing property of CIE xy color diagram to realize quantitative analysis of colors and obtain color information,and a very robust neural net to realize inexact matching for recognition.

Hierarchical Image Segmentation Using a Combined Geometrical and Feature Based Approach

This paper presents a fully automatic segmentation algorithm based on geometrical and local attributes of color images. This method incorporates a hierarchical assessment scheme into any general segmentation algorithm for which the segmentation sensitivity can be changed through parameters. The parameters are varied to create different segmentation levels in the hierarchy. The algorithm examines the consistency of segments based on local features and their relationships with each other, and selects segments at different levels to generate a final segmentation. This adaptive parameter variation scheme provides an automatic way to set segmentation sensitivity parameters locally according to each region's characteristics instead of the entire image. The algorithm does not require any training dataset. The geometrical attributes can be defined by a shape prior for specific applications, i.e. targeting objects of interest, or by one or more general constraint(s) such as boundaries between regions for non-specific applications. Using mean shift as the general segmentation algorithm, we show that our hierarchical approach generates segments that satisfy geometrical properties while conforming with local properties. In the case of using a shape prior, the algorithm can cope with partial occlusions. Evaluation is carried out on the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset and Benchmark (BSDS300) (general natural images) and on geo-spatial images (with specific shapes of interest). The F-measure for our proposed algorithm, i.e. the harmonic mean between precision and recall rates, is 64.2% on BSDS300, outperforming the same segmentation algorithm in its standard non-hierarchical variant.

基于形色筛选的苹果园羽化害虫粘连图像分割方法

针对苹果园害虫识别过程中的粘连问题,提出了一种基于形色筛选的害虫粘连图像分割方法。首先,采集苹果园害虫图像,聚焦于羽化害虫。害虫在羽化过程中已完成大部分生长发育,其外部形态、颜色、纹理更为稳定显著。因此,基于不同种类害虫的形色特征信息分析,来获取害虫HSV分割阈值和模板轮廓。其次,利用形状因子判定分割粘连区域,通过颜色分割法和轮廓定位分割法来实现非种间与种间粘连害虫的分割。最后,对采集的苹果园害虫图像进行了试验分析,采用基于形色筛选的分割法对单个害虫进行分割,结果表明,本文方法的平均分割率、平均分割错误率和平均分割有效率分别为101%、3.14%和96.86%,分割效果优于传统图像分割方法。此外,通过预定义的颜色阈值,本文方法实现了棉铃虫、桃蛀螟与玉米螟的精准分类,平均分类准确率分别为97.77%、96.75%与96.83%。同时,以Mask R-CNN模型作为识别模型,平均识别精度作为评价指标,分别对已用本文方法和未用本文方法分割的害虫图像进行识别试验。结果表明,已用本文方法分割的棉铃虫、桃蛀螟和玉米螟害虫图像平均识别精度分别为96.55%、94.80%与95.51%,平均识别精度分别提高16.42、16.59、16.46个百分点。这表明该方法可为果园害虫精准识别提供理论和方法基础。

一种多阶段的黑白影像智能色彩修复算法

针对黑白电影的上色过程中,自动上色模型只生成一种结果导致上色结果单一、基于参考示例上色方法需要用户指定参考图像、参考图像的高要求会耗费大量人力的问题,提出了一种多阶段的黑白影像智能色彩修复算法(A Multi-Stage Intelligent Color Restoration Algorithm for Black-and-White Movies,MSICRA)。首先,使用VGG19网络将电影分割为多个场景片段;其次,将每个场景片段逐帧切割,将每帧图像的边缘强度和灰度差作为图像清晰度评判指标,筛选出每个场景中清晰度位于[0.95,1]区间的图像;然后,选择筛选出的图像中的第一张,使用不同的渲染因子值进行上色,利用饱和度进行上色效果的评估,选择合适的渲染因子值对筛选出的图像上色;最后,利用上色前和上色后图像之间的均方误差选择上色质量较好的图像作为该场景片段上色的参考图像。实验结果表明,所提算法在黑白电影《雷锋》和《永不消逝的电波》的PSNR上分别提高了1.32%和2.15%,SSIM分别提高了1.84%和1.04%。该算法不仅可以实现全自动上色,而且颜色真实,符合人们的认知。

结合超体素与颜色信息的区域生长点云分割方法

为解决传统区域生长点云分割算法存在的欠分割和过分割现象,提出一种结合超体素与颜色信息的区域生长点云分割方法。在分割过程中加入超体素过分割步骤,避免直接从点云中分割数据,有效消除噪声和异常值对分割的影响,利用一种几何和颜色信息的联合准则合并超体素并进行区域生长。与深度学习方法和其它3种传统分割算法相比,分割效率和精度都得到了较大提升,解决了欠分割和过分割的问题。

基于人工智能的缺陷图像识别算法

为了提高实际场景图像的缺陷识别准确度,基于人工智能、图像识别和深度学习技术,设计一种新的图像缺陷识别算法。采集缺陷图像,为缺陷目标识别做好检测分析和学习训练准备。联合分水岭分割和颜色特征分割方法,提取缺陷图像的有效特征。基于卷积网络,充分借助其中的学习模型,采用Python开源框架,设计新的缺陷识别方法。将人工智能算法集成于开发的软件系统中,该系统功能包括相机采集、视频导入、HDMI导入、脚踏板控制等。仿真数据表明,与已有分割技术相比,所提算法具有更理想的识别准确性与鲁棒性。

喷气涡流纺长片段竹节段彩纱的设计与生产

探讨有色超短纤维在喷气涡流纺花式纱开发中的应用及生产要点。采用有色粘胶超短纤维与本色竹浆纤维、椰炭改性涤纶纤维,在并条机上加装竹节装置,利用喷气涡流纺纱技术纺制成长片段竹节段彩纱。针对粘胶纤维长度相对较短的特点,工艺上尝试采用短流程、减小隔距、降低打击件速度等技术措施。结果表明:开发的喷气涡流纺段彩纱具有段彩片段长、生产效率高的特点,其在布面上色点朦胧,时而形成连续分布,时而散点分布,形成不同于传统段彩纱的独特风格。