[1]LIU Yong-mei,DAI Li-jie.An improved method of Kmeans image segmentation based on spatial position information[J].CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems,2010,5(1):67-69.
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems[ISSN 1673-4785/CN 23-1538/TP] Volume:
5
Number of periods:
2010 1
Page number:
67-69
Column:
学术论文—机器学习
Public date:
2010-02-25
- Title:
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An improved method of Kmeans image segmentation based on spatial position information
- Author(s):
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LIU Yong-mei; DAI Li-jie
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School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
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- Keywords:
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Kmeans clustering; image segmentation; spatial position information
- CLC:
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TP391
- DOI:
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- Abstract:
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Kmeans clustering is an effective algorithm for image segmentation, which attempts to separate objects of interest from their background. Traditional Kmeans clustering algorithms use the visual similarity measures of pixels in the feature space to determine which segmentation region the pixels belong to. Because of the complexity of natural images, neighboring pixels with different visual features, which should be treated as part of the same object, may end up in separate regions. As a result, it is hard to get satisfactory results when depending only on visual features. A spatially constrained image segmentation algorithm was therefore developed. It improved on the Kmeans clustering algorithm by adding a corrective step, the application of positional information from neighboring pixels. Experiments showed that the algorithm is effective.