Preventing Chaining in Alpha-Trees Using Gabor Filters

Xiaoxuan Zhang; M.H.F. Wilkinson

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20867-7

Preventing Chaining in Alpha-Trees Using Gabor Filters

Xiaoxuan Zhang
, M.H.F. Wilkinson

Intelligent Systems

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20867-7
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/

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	11564

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Conference	International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology
Abbreviated title	ISMM
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Saarbrücken
Period	08/07/2019 → 10/07/2019
Internet address	http://ismm.uni-saarland.de/

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image segmentation
mathematical morphology
Alpha-tree
Gabor filter

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Zhang, X & Wilkinson, MHF 2019, Preventing Chaining in Alpha-Trees Using Gabor Filters. in B Burgeth, A Kleefeld, B Naegel, N Passat & B Perret (eds), Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11564, Springer, pp. 268-280, International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, 08/07/2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20867-7

Preventing Chaining in Alpha-Trees Using Gabor Filters. / Zhang, Xiaoxuan; Wilkinson, M.H.F.
Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing. ed. / Bernhard Burgeth; Andreas Kleefeld; Benoit Naegel; Nicolas Passat; Benjamin Perret. Springer, 2019. p. 268-280 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11564).

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