A Robust Approach to Segment Desired Object Based on Salient Colors. (22nd January 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Da Rugna, Jérôme; Konik, Hubert
• Other Names: Tremeau Alain Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: EURASIP journal on image and video processing. Volume 2008(2008)
• Publication Date: 2008-01-22
• Subjects: Image processing -- Digital techniques -- Periodicals; Digital video -- Periodicals; Traitement d'images; Vidéo numérique; Digital video; Image processing -- Digital techniques; Periodicals; Electronic journal; Electronic journals; 621.367
• DOI: 10.1155/2008/489202
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-5176

Abstract

Abstract : This paper presents a clustering-based color segmentation method where the desired object is focused on. As classical methods suffer from a lack of robustness, salient colors appearing in the object are used to intuitively tune the algorithm. These salient colors are extracted according to a psychovisual scheme and a peak-finding step. Results on various test sequences, covering a representative set of outdoor real videos, show the improvement when compared to a simple implementation of the same K-means oriented segmentation algorithm with ad hoc parameter setting strategy and with the well-known mean-shift algorithm.