TY - GEN
T1 - Improved Superpixel-Based Fast Fuzzy C-Means Clustering for Image Segmentation
AU - Wu, Chong
AU - Zhang, Le
AU - Zhang, Houwang
AU - Yan, Hong
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Superpixel-based fast fuzzy C-means clustering (SFFCM) is
an efficient method for color image segmentation. However,
it is sensitive to noise and blur. Its superpixel method called
multiscale morphological gradient reconstruction (MMGR)
is time consuming. In this paper, we propose an improved
SFFCM method (ISFFCM) which replaces the MMGR in
SFFCM with fuzzy simple linear iterative clustering (Fuzzy
SLIC). Fuzzy SLIC is faster and more robust than MMGR for
most types of noise, including salt and pepper noise, Gaussian
noise and multiplicative noise. It is also more robust to image
blur. In the validation experiments, we tested ISFFCM and
SFFCM on the Berkeley benchmark. The experiment results
show that our method outperforms SFFCM under noise and
blurring environments.
AB - Superpixel-based fast fuzzy C-means clustering (SFFCM) is
an efficient method for color image segmentation. However,
it is sensitive to noise and blur. Its superpixel method called
multiscale morphological gradient reconstruction (MMGR)
is time consuming. In this paper, we propose an improved
SFFCM method (ISFFCM) which replaces the MMGR in
SFFCM with fuzzy simple linear iterative clustering (Fuzzy
SLIC). Fuzzy SLIC is faster and more robust than MMGR for
most types of noise, including salt and pepper noise, Gaussian
noise and multiplicative noise. It is also more robust to image
blur. In the validation experiments, we tested ISFFCM and
SFFCM on the Berkeley benchmark. The experiment results
show that our method outperforms SFFCM under noise and
blurring environments.
KW - color image segmentation
KW - Fuzzy SLIC
KW - SFFCM
KW - Superpixel
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIP.2019.8803039
DO - 10.1109/ICIP.2019.8803039
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
SP - 1455
EP - 1459
BT - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - Proceedings
PB - IEEE
T2 - 26th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2019)
Y2 - 22 September 2019 through 25 September 2019
ER -