Abstract
Hierarchical segmentation using α-trees can suffer from unwanted leakage or chaining effects, which lower segmentation quality by reducing the depth of the hierarchy. In this paper we introduce a new way to prevent the chaining effect of α-trees. It relies on the odd 2-D Gabor filter. A series of clean, noisy, and blurred synthetic images was used to test the ability of improved α-trees to stop the chaining effect obtaining a 99.8% segmentation accuracy, and we compared it with the contrast-based α-tree proposed previously by Soille. Two remote sensing images were also used to test the performance of the methods on natural images. The results showed that both 4-CN and 8-CN odd Gabor filter based α-trees can prevent the chaining effect efficiently.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing |
Editors | Bernhard Burgeth, Andreas Kleefeld, Benoit Naegel, Nicolas Passat, Benjamin Perret |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 268-280 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-20867-7 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-20866-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 8-Jul-2019 |
Event | International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology - Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Duration: 8-Jul-2019 → 10-Jul-2019 Conference number: 14 http://ismm.uni-saarland.de/ |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Volume | 11564 |
Conference
Conference | International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology |
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Abbreviated title | ISMM |
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Saarbrücken |
Period | 08/07/2019 → 10/07/2019 |
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Keywords
- image segmentation
- mathematical morphology
- Alpha-tree
- Gabor filter