Published In
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Subjects
Cluster Ensembles -- research
Abstract
Image segmentation is the foundation of computer vision applications. In this paper, we propose a new cluster ensemble-based image segmentation algorithm, which overcomes several problems of traditional methods. We make two main contributions in this paper. First, we introduce the cluster ensemble concept to fuse the segmentation results from different types of visual features effectively, which can deliver a better final result and achieve a much more stable performance for broad categories of images. Second, we exploit the PageRank idea from Internet applications and apply it to the image segmentation task. This can improve the final segmentation results by combining the spatial information of the image and the semantic similarity of regions. Our experiments on four public image databases validate the superiority of our algorithm over conventional single type of feature or multiple types of features-based algorithms, since our algorithm can fuse multiple types of features effectively for better segmentation results. Moreover, our method is also proved to be very competitive in comparison with other state-of-the-art segmentation algorithms.
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DOI
10.5772/56769
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33777
Citation Details
Wang, X., Du, J., Wu, S., Li, X., & Li, F. (2013). Cluster ensemble-based image segmentation. International journal of advanced robotic systems, 10(7), 297.
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