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Image segmentation is an important component of many image understanding systems. It aims to group pixels in a spatially and perceptually coherent manner. Typically, these algorithms have a collection of parameters that control the degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marc Bosch , Christopher M. Gifford , Austin G. Dress , Clare W. Lau , Jeffrey G. Skibo , Gordon A. Christie

The segmentation of digital images is one of the essential steps in image processing or a computer vision system. It helps in separating the pixels into different regions according to their intensity level. A large number of segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Amit Gurung , Sangyal Lama Tamang

We propose an efficient threshold dynamics method for topology optimization for fluids modeled with the Stokes equation. The proposed algorithm is based on minimization of an objective energy function that consists of the dissipation power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Huangxin Chen , Haitao Leng , Dong Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

Compressing piecewise smooth images is important for many data types such as depth maps in 3D videos or optic flow fields for motion compensation. Specialised codecs that rely on explicitly stored segmentations excel in this task since they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Ferdinand Jost , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert

Features that capture well the textural patterns of a certain class of images are crucial for the performance of texture segmentation methods. The manual selection of features or designing new ones can be a tedious task. Therefore, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Martin Kiechle , Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann , Martin Kleinsteuber

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for active contours with free endpoints. A scheme is presented for image segmentation and restoration based on a discrete version of the Mumford-Shah functional where the contours can be both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Heike Benninghoff , Harald Garcke

We study reinforcement learning in infinite-horizon average-reward settings with linear MDPs. Previous work addresses this problem by approximating the average-reward setting by discounted setting and employing a value iteration-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Kihyuk Hong , Ambuj Tewari

Clinically useful proton Computed Tomography images will rely on algorithms to find the three-dimensional proton stopping power distribution that optimally fits the measured proton data. We present a least squares iterative method with many…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Don F. DeJongh , Ethan A. DeJongh

Piecewise constant image approximations of sequential number of segments or clusters of disconnected pixels are treated. The method of majorizing of optimal approximation sequence by hierarchical sequence of image approximations is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-02 M. Kharinov

In the field of image analysis, segmentation is one of the most important preprocessing steps. One way to achieve segmentation is by mean of threshold selection, where each pixel that belongs to a determined class islabeled according to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Valentín Osuna-Enciso , Erik Cuevas , Humberto Sossa

A non parametric, level set free method is proposed for detecting image boundaries using the shape gradient of the Mumford Shah energy for segmentation. Minimizing the variance in pixel intensities inside and outside a boundary set of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shafeequdheen P , Jyotiranjan Nayak , Vijayakrishna Rowthu

In this paper, we design an efficient, multi-stage image segmentation framework that incorporates a weighted difference of anisotropic and isotropic total variation (AITV). The segmentation framework generally consists of two stages:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Kevin Bui , Yifei Lou , Fredrick Park , Jack Xin

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation framework for image segmentation algorithms, encompassing naive methods, machine learning approaches, and deep learning techniques. We begin by introducing the fundamental concepts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Tatiana Merkulova , Bharani Jayakumar

We transpose an optimal control technique to the image segmentation problem. The idea is to consider image segmentation as a parameter estimation problem. The parameter to estimate is the color of the pixels of the image. We use the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Hend Ben Ameur , Guy Chavent , Francois Clément , Pierre Weis

Today Bayesian networks are more used in many areas of decision support and image processing. In this way, our proposed approach uses Bayesian Network to modelize the segmented image quality. This quality is calculated on a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Mohamed Mhiri

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in image processing. It consist in classify the pixels into two or more groups depending on their intensity levels and a threshold value. The quality of the segmentation depends on the method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Diego Oliva , Erik Cuevas , Gonzalo Pajares , Daniel Zaldivar , Valentin Osuna

This paper explores the use of the Learning Automata (LA) algorithm to compute threshold selection for image segmentation as it is a critical preprocessing step for image analysis, pattern recognition and computer vision. LA is a heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Erik Cuevas , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez

The main objective of image segmentation is to divide an image into homogeneous regions for further analysis. This is a significant and crucial task in many applications such as medical imaging. Deep learning (DL) methods have been proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Junying Meng , Weihong Guo , Jun Liu , Mingrui Yang

In this paper, we propose an active contour model with a local variance force (LVF) term that can be applied to multi-phase image segmentation problems. With the LVF, the proposed model is very effective in the segmentation of images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Chaoyu Liu , Zhonghua Qiao , Qian Zhang

A levelset free but a hybrid image segmentation approach based on a modified version of the piece wise constant shape gradient of an Mumford Shah shape functional and a repulsive function is considered. The segmentation is performed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shafeequdheen Palengara , Jyotiranjan Nayak , Vijayakrishna Rowthu