A fast fuzzy c-means algorithm for color image segmentation

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10.2991/eusflat.2011.9How to use a DOI?

Abstract

Color image segmentation is a fundamental task in many computer vision problems. A common approach is to use fuzzy iterative clustering algorithms that provide a partition of the pixels into a given number of clusters. However, most of these algorithms present several drawbacks: they are time consuming, and sensitive to initialization and noise. In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy c-means algorithm aiming at correcting such drawbacks. It relies on a new efficient cluster centers initialization and color quantization allowing faster and more accurate convergence such that it is suitable to segment very large color images. Thanks to color quantization and a new spatial regularization, the proposed algorithm is also more robust. Experiments on real images show the efficiency in terms of both accuracy and computation time of the proposed algorithm as compared to recent methods of the literature.

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© 2011, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hoel Le Capitaine
AU  - Carl Frélicot
PY  - 2011/08
DA  - 2011/08
TI  - A fast fuzzy c-means algorithm for color image segmentation
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT-11)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1074
EP  - 1081
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/eusflat.2011.9
DO  - 10.2991/eusflat.2011.9
ID  - LeCapitaine2011/08
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