Hierarchical Segmentation via a Diffusion Scheme in Color/Texture Feature Space
 
Hierarchical Segmentation via a Diffusion Scheme in Color/Texture Feature Space ■
 
Iris Vanhamel, Iris Vanhamel, Iris Vanhamel, Antonis Katartzis, Antonis Katartzis, Antonis Katartzis, Hichem Sahli, Hichem Sahli, Hichem Sahli
 
Abstract ■

This paper presents a segmentation scheme for images containing both smooth regions and textures. It is based on a vector-valued anisotropic diffusion on a combined color/Gabor feature space, followed by a hierarchical segmentation using dynamics of multiscale 'generalized gradient' watersheds. The proposed method gives good segmentation results and is shown to be more effective than its counterpart, which uses only multiscale color information.