1 - Unsupervised Hierarchical Image Segmentation based on the TS-MRF model and Fast Mean-Shift Clustering.
R. Gaetano and G. Scarpa and G. Poggi and J. Zerubia. In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.
Keywords : Segmentation, Markov Random Fields, Mean Shift, Land Classification.
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| author |
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{Gaetano, R. and Scarpa, G. and Poggi, G. and Zerubia, J.}, |
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{Unsupervised Hierarchical Image Segmentation based on the TS-MRF model and Fast Mean-Shift Clustering}, |
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{2008}, |
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{August}, |
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{Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)}, |
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{Lausanne, Switzerland}, |
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{http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7080521}, |
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{Segmentation, Markov Random Fields, Mean Shift, Land Classification} |
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Abstract :
Tree-Structured Markov Random Field (TS-MRF) models have been recently proposed to provide a hierarchical multiscale description of images. Based on such a model, the unsupervised image segmentation is carried out by means of a sequence of nested class splits, where each class is modeled as a local binary MRF.
We propose here a new TS-MRF unsupervised segmentation technique which improves upon the original algorithm by selecting a better tree structure and eliminating spurious classes. Such results are obtained by using the Mean-Shift procedure to estimate the number of pdf modes at each node (thus allowing for a non-binary tree), and to obtain a more reliable initial clustering for subsequent MRF optimization. To this end, we devise a new reliable and fast clustering algorithm based on the Mean-Shift technique. Experimental results prove the potential of the proposed method. |
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