Modified Watershed Algorithm for Segmentation of 2D Images

摘要

With the repaid advancement of computer technology, the use of computer-based technologies is increasing in different fields of life. Image segmentation is an important problem in different fields of image processing and computer vision. Image segmentation is the process of dividing images according to its characteristic e.g., color and objects present in the images. Different methods are presented for image segmentation. The focus of this study is the watershed segmentation. The tool used in this study is MATLAB. Good result of watershed segmentation entirely relay on the image contrast. Image contrast may be degraded during image acquisition. Watershed algorithm can generate over segmentation or under segmentation on badly contrast images. In order to reduce these deficiencies of watershed algorithm a preprocessing step using Random Walk method is performed on input images. Random Walk method is a probabilistic approach, which improves the image contrast in the way image is degraded.