Semi-supervised statistical region refinement for color image segmentation

摘要

Some authors have recently devised adaptations of spectral grouping algorithms to integrate prior knowledge, as constrained eigenvalues problems. In this paper, we improve and adapt a recent statistical region merging approach to this task, as a non-parametric mixture model estimation problem. The approach appears to be attractive both for its theoretical benefits and its experimental results, as slight bias brings dramatic improvements over unbiased approaches on challenging digital pictures. (c) 2004 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.