FAST MULTI REGION IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING

STATISTICAL ACTIVE CONTOURS

Abstract:
In this letter, we propose a novel statistical active contours method for using an
arbitrary number of level set functions to segment an image into regions of the
corresponding amount. First, a new updating of level set functions for every region is
derived from the probabilistic models of image data. Second, a novel geometric prior
that deduced from the level-set-based curve evolution is introduced to obtain the
probabilistic label. Therefore, updating of the level set functions and estimation of the
distribution parameter are run alternately in a fast manner. Finally, in order to further
enhance the efficiency, we initialize the level set function by the statistical approach to
draw near object boundary. We experimentally evaluate our proposed approach on
complicated real-world images and demonstrate its good performance in practice.

Proposed System :
Our goal is to partition the image into arbitrary number of regions using
level set functions with the corresponding amount. And the level set function is initialized
by the probabilistic labels, and evolve in the Euclidean
space,then it is mapped back to the space of discrete probabilities to estimate the
distributed parameter.