DRR
2011
12 years 5 months ago
2011
Page segmentation into text and non-text components is an essential preprocessing step before OCR operation. If this is not done properly, an OCR classification engine produces g...
SIP
2001
13 years 7 months ago
2001
Synthetic aperture side-scan sonar (SAS) is an imaging modality for detecting objects on the sea floor and in shallow water. SAS images provide an echo of an object along with its...
MVA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
In this paper, we first generalize a recent statistical color image segmentation algorithm [5] to arbitrary graphs, and report its performance for 2D images, 3D meshes and volume...
MVA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
In this paper we propose an image segmentation algorithm that combines region merging with spectral-based techniques. An initial partitioning of the image into primitive regions i...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2000
Springer
In this paper, we propose a competitive image segmentation algorithm. It is a dynamic evolving optimization method, which we call the population algorithm. The method is inspired f...
GECCO
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2000
Springer
Image segmentation is an important process of image analysis. Most of the published approaches for image segmentation need to set appropriate parameter values to cope with the unc...
ICIAP
1999
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1999
ACM
This paper describes a novel multiresolution image segmentation algorithm for separating sharply focused objects-of-interest from other foreground or background objects in low dep...
CIVR
2007
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
2007
Springer
In this paper, we develop a system to classify the outputs of image segmentation algorithms as perceptually relevant or perceptually irrelevant with respect to human perception. T...
SIBGRAPI
2009
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
2009
IEEE
—This paper proposes an improved version for the JSEG color image segmentation algorithm, combining the classical JSEG algorithm and a local fractal operator that measures the fr...
ISBI
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2004
IEEE
We present an energy based automatic image segmentation algorithm that uses a novel active contour scheme, called the stochastic active contour scheme (STACS). The algorithm overc...