A Random Point Initialization Approach to Image Segmentation with Variational Level-sets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12355v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 04:37:44 GMT
• Title: A Random Point Initialization Approach to Image Segmentation with Variational Level-sets
• Authors: J.N. Mueller, J.N. Corcoran
• Abstract summary: We propose a modification to the variational level set image segmentation method that can quickly detect object boundaries. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach by comparing the performance of our method on real images to that of the prominent Canny Method.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Image segmentation is an essential component in many image processing and computer vision tasks. The primary goal of image segmentation is to simplify an image for easier analysis, and there are two broad approaches for achieving this: edge based methods, which extract the boundaries of specific known objects, and region based methods, which partition the image into regions that are statistically homogeneous. One of the more prominent edge finding methods, known as the level set method, evolves a zero-level contour in the image plane with gradient descent until the contour has converged to the object boundaries. While the classical level set method and its variants have proved successful in segmenting real images, they are susceptible to becoming stuck in noisy regions of the image plane without a priori knowledge of the image and they are unable to provide details beyond object outer boundary locations. We propose a modification to the variational level set image segmentation method that can quickly detect object boundaries by making use of random point initialization. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach by comparing the performance of our method on real images to that of the prominent Canny Method.

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