J4 ›› 2012, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (2): 87-94+212.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2012.02.015

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Improved isoperimetric algorithm for image segmentation

WANG Yunfei;BI Duyan;HUANG Fei   

  1. (School of Eng., Air Force Eng. Univ., Xi'an  710038, China)
  • Received:2011-01-13 Online:2012-04-20 Published:2012-05-21
  • Contact: WANG Yunfei E-mail:fxjuan_2008@yahoo.com.cn

Abstract:

An in-depth analysis is conducted on the graph-theory-based-isoperimetric-partition-algorithm (GTBIPA), which has such drawbacks as low noise immunity and low iterative efficiency when applied to image processing, and a new approach is presented. In this new approach, the intensity of arbitrary nodes in graph are analogized as the length and width of a rectangle. On the condition of a constant perimeter of a rectangle, a new weighting function is designed by using the ratio between the present and the maximum area of the rectangle, so that the normalized problem is directly avoided; and by the participation of suboptimal isoperimetric ratio in iterative partitioning, the iteration efficiency of the algorithm is improved. Experimental results show that this new algorithm can efficiently enhance the performance of the GTBIPA by improving its noise immunity and reducing the number of iterations by 10%~30%.

Key words: graph theory, image segmentation, isoperimetric algorithm, weighting function, suboptimal isoperimetric ratio

CLC Number: 

  • TP391