Outdoor Color Scene Segmentation towards Object Detection using Dual-Resolution Histograms
Subject Areas :javad rasti 1 , monadjemi monadjemi 2 , abbas vafaei 3
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Keywords: External image, Clustering, Segmentation, Color resolution,
Abstract :
One of the most important problems in automatic outdoor scene analysis is the approach of segmentation towards object detection. The special characteristics of such images -like color variety, different luminance effects and color shades, abundant texture details, and diversity of objects- lead to major challenges in the segmentation process. In the previous research, we proposed a k-means clustering algorithm in a multi-resolution platform for preliminary color segmentation. In this method, the texture details are deliberately expunged and apparent clusters are gradually removed in the blurred versions of the image to let more detailed classes expose in the more clarified versions. The performance of this step-by-step approach is relatively higher than the traditional k-means in color clustering for outdoor scene segmentation. In this paper, an adaptive method based on the circular hue histogram in a dual-resolution platform is suggested to detect the apparent clusters in the blurred images. Experimental results on two outdoor datasets show about 20% decrease in the pixel segmentation error as well as around 30% increase in both precision and speed in the convergence of the clustering algorithm.
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