Fuzzy image clustering incorporating spatial continuity
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing
- Vol. 147 (2), 185-192
- https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-vis:20000218
Abstract
The authors present a spatial fuzzy clustering algorithm that exploits the spatial contextual information in image data. The objective functional of their method utilises a new dissimilarity index that takes into account the influence of the neighbouring pixels on the centre pixel in a 3×3 window. The algorithm is adaptive to the image content in the sense that influence from the neighbouring pixels is suppressed in nonhomogeneous regions in the image. A cluster merging scheme that merges two clusters based on their closeness and their degree of overlap is presented. Through this merging scheme, an `optimal' number of clusters can be determined automatically as iteration proceeds. Experimental results with synthetic and real images indicate that the proposed algorithm is more tolerant to noise, better at resolving classification ambiguity and coping with different cluster shape and size than the conventional fuzzy c-means algorithm.Keywords
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