Color-texture based unsupervised segmentation using JSEG with fuzzy connectedness

1.INTRODUCTIONJSEG1]is a distinguished one in many existing seg-mentation methods based on color-texture1,4,6~8].Itis computationally more feasible than many othermethods1]because JSEGis to test the homogeneityof a given color-texture pattern,instead of doing pa-rameter esti mationfor a specific model like many oth-er texture segmentation algorithms.The segmentation results produced by JSEGaremainly based on a class-mapformed by the color classlabel of every pixel,which is the prod…

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.