Narrow Band Region-Based Active Contours Model for Noisy Color Image Segmentation
A narrow band active contour model for color image segmentation is proposed, which applies local statistics to improve the robustness against noise. The crux of our approach is to use intensity mean of local region to define the force function within a level set framework, within which a narrow band...
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| author | Xiaomin Xie Aijun Zhang Changming Wang Xiangfei Meng |
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| description | A narrow band active contour model for color image segmentation is proposed, which applies local statistics to improve the robustness against noise. The crux of our approach is to use intensity mean of local region to define the force function within a level set framework, within which a narrow band is implemented to further improve the computational efficiency. In addition, the image is segmented from channel-to-channel, which shows superior performance when the intensities of the object and background are similar. Furthermore, a multichannel segmentation combination method is used to integrate the information of multiple level sets. The proposed model has been applied to both synthetic and real images with expected results, and the comparison with the state-of-the-art approaches demonstrates the accuracy and superiority of our approach. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5e3529ebbc244e43b60d0af49f5a0f7d2025-08-20T03:34:32ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal2356-61401537-744X2014-01-01201410.1155/2014/307416307416Narrow Band Region-Based Active Contours Model for Noisy Color Image SegmentationXiaomin Xie0Aijun Zhang1Changming Wang2Xiangfei Meng3School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, ChinaA narrow band active contour model for color image segmentation is proposed, which applies local statistics to improve the robustness against noise. The crux of our approach is to use intensity mean of local region to define the force function within a level set framework, within which a narrow band is implemented to further improve the computational efficiency. In addition, the image is segmented from channel-to-channel, which shows superior performance when the intensities of the object and background are similar. Furthermore, a multichannel segmentation combination method is used to integrate the information of multiple level sets. The proposed model has been applied to both synthetic and real images with expected results, and the comparison with the state-of-the-art approaches demonstrates the accuracy and superiority of our approach.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/307416 |
| spellingShingle | Xiaomin Xie Aijun Zhang Changming Wang Xiangfei Meng Narrow Band Region-Based Active Contours Model for Noisy Color Image Segmentation The Scientific World Journal |
| title | Narrow Band Region-Based Active Contours Model for Noisy Color Image Segmentation |
| title_full | Narrow Band Region-Based Active Contours Model for Noisy Color Image Segmentation |
| title_fullStr | Narrow Band Region-Based Active Contours Model for Noisy Color Image Segmentation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Narrow Band Region-Based Active Contours Model for Noisy Color Image Segmentation |
| title_short | Narrow Band Region-Based Active Contours Model for Noisy Color Image Segmentation |
| title_sort | narrow band region based active contours model for noisy color image segmentation |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/307416 |
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