Color Image Segmentation in the Color and Spatial Domains

Abstract

In this paper we describe a color image segmentation system that performs color clustering in a color space followed by color region segmentation in the image domain. In color space, we describe two different algorithms that cluster similar colors using different criteria and present our evaluation results on these two algorithms in comparison with three well-known color segmentation algorithms. The region segmentation algorithm merges clusters in the image domain based on color similarity and spatial adjacency. We developed three different methods for merging regions in the image domain. The color image segmentation system has been implemented and tested on a variety of color images, including satellite images and moving car images. The system has shown to be both effective and efficient.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA458211

Entities

People

  • Grant Gerhart
  • Robert Karlsen
  • Tie Q. Chen
  • Yi L. Murphey

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Clustering
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computational Processes
  • Computations
  • Computer Vision
  • Electromagnetic Spectra
  • Gray Scale
  • Image Segmentation
  • Object Recognition
  • Operating Systems
  • Recognition
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Vehicles
  • Video

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Space