An Unsupervised Approach for Boundary Detection of Colored Natural Scenes

This work proposes a new unsupervised method for boundary detection in colored natural scenes, consisting of two-stage sequential processes of integration.

The first stage performs region extraction, where two different techniques measure the color-texture homogeneity in a region-growing method and they are combined by two different control algorithms. One control algorithm is based on a local property and the other is based on a global statistical property (the shape of the power spectrum of the image being analyzed). One homogeneity measure is the J-value and the second is a multifractal descriptor.

In the second integration, edge information is extracted by a classical method, and integrated with region information. This process eliminates false boundaries in the region-map, guided by the edge-map, and reduces the noise in the edge-map as well, now guided by the region-map, thus taking advantage of their complementary nature. It integrates the two maps into a single final result, enhancing the coincident information of both maps. Each phase of integration improves, progressively, the detection of the boundaries.

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