A population-based automatic clustering algorithm for image segmentation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad ◽  
Gerald Schaefer ◽  
Mahshid Helali Moghadam ◽  
Mehrdad Saadatmand ◽  
Mahdi Pedram
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Automatic Clustering

scholarly journals Every Frame Counts: Joint Learning of Video Segmentation and Optical Flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (07) ◽  
pp. 10713-10720
Author(s):  
Mingyu Ding ◽  
Zhe Wang ◽  
Bolei Zhou ◽  
Jianping Shi ◽  
Zhiwu Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Flow ◽  
Video Segmentation ◽  
Video Clip ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Temporal Consistency ◽  
Flow Estimation ◽  
Optical Flow Estimation ◽  
Optical Flows ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Spatio Temporal

A major challenge for video semantic segmentation is the lack of labeled data. In most benchmark datasets, only one frame of a video clip is annotated, which makes most supervised methods fail to utilize information from the rest of the frames. To exploit the spatio-temporal information in videos, many previous works use pre-computed optical flows, which encode the temporal consistency to improve the video segmentation. However, the video segmentation and optical flow estimation are still considered as two separate tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for joint video semantic segmentation and optical flow estimation. Semantic segmentation brings semantic information to handle occlusion for more robust optical flow estimation, while the non-occluded optical flow provides accurate pixel-level temporal correspondences to guarantee the temporal consistency of the segmentation. Moreover, our framework is able to utilize both labeled and unlabeled frames in the video through joint training, while no additional calculation is required in inference. Extensive experiments show that the proposed model makes the video semantic segmentation and optical flow estimation benefit from each other and outperforms existing methods under the same settings in both tasks.

A Hard C-Means Clustering Algorithm Incorporating Membership KL Divergence and Local Data Information for Noisy Image Segmentation

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850012 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Gharieb ◽  
G. Gendy ◽  
H. Selim
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Membership Function ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Clustering Algorithms ◽  
Cluster Center ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Cluster Membership ◽  
Kl Divergence ◽  
Clustering Approach ◽  
Center Distance

In this paper, the standard hard C-means (HCM) clustering approach to image segmentation is modified by incorporating weighted membership Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence and local data information into the HCM objective function. The membership KL divergence, used for fuzzification, measures the proximity between each cluster membership function of a pixel and the locally-smoothed value of the membership in the pixel vicinity. The fuzzification weight is a function of the pixel to cluster-centers distances. The used pixel to a cluster-center distance is composed of the original pixel data distance plus a fraction of the distance generated from the locally-smoothed pixel data. It is shown that the obtained membership function of a pixel is proportional to the locally-smoothed membership function of this pixel multiplied by an exponentially distributed function of the minus pixel distance relative to the minimum distance provided by the nearest cluster-center to the pixel. Therefore, since incorporating the locally-smoothed membership and data information in addition to the relative distance, which is more tolerant to additive noise than the absolute distance, the proposed algorithm has a threefold noise-handling process. The presented algorithm, named local data and membership KL divergence based fuzzy C-means (LDMKLFCM), is tested by synthetic and real-world noisy images and its results are compared with those of several FCM-based clustering algorithms.

scholarly journals An improvedK-means clustering algorithm for fish image segmentation

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 790-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Yao ◽  
Qingling Duan ◽  
Daoliang Li ◽  
Jianping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Clustering Algorithm
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document