Unsupervised segmentation of images is highly useful in various applications including contentbased image retrieval. A novel multiresolution image segmentation algorithm, designed to separate a focused object of interest from background automatically, is described in this paper. According to the principle of human vision system, our algorithm first searches the salient block representing object in global image domain. Then all image blocks are clustered using the feature of color moments and texture in salient block. At last the algorithm classifies the image blocks belonging to object class in high resolution. Experiment shows that our algorithm achieves better segmentation results at higher speed compared with the traditional image segmentation approach using global optimization.
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