An efficient unsupervised MRF image clustering method

Yimin Hou, Lei Guo, Xiangmin Lun

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Abstract

In this paper, a robust image segmentation method is proposed. The relationship between pixel intensities and distance between pixels are introduced to the traditional neighbourhood potential function To perform an unsupervised segmentation, the Bayes Information Criterion (BIC) is used to determine the class number, the K-means is employed to initialise the classification and calculate the mean values and variances of the classes. The segmentation is transformed to maximize a posteriori(MAP) procedure. Then, the Iterative Conditional Model (ICM) is employed to solve the MAP problem. In the experiments, the proposed method is compared with other segmentation techniques, for noisy image segmentation applying on synthetic and real images. The experiment results shows that the proposed algorithm is the better choice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPRICAI 2006
Subtitle of host publicationTrends in Artificial Intelligence - 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1216-1221
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)3540366679, 9783540366676
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Guilin, China
Duration: 7 Aug 200611 Aug 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4099 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period7/08/0611/08/06

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