Unsupervised texture-based image segmentation through pattern discovery

Jaime Melendez, Miguel Angel Garcia, Do2enec Puig and Maria Petrou

jaime.melendez@u>v.cat, miguelangel-garcia@uam.es, domenec.puig@urv.cat, maria.petrou@imperial.ac.uk

This paper present a new efficient technique for unsupervised segmentation of textured images that aims at incorporating the advantages of supervision for discriminating textlre patterns. Fiist, a pattern discovery stage thatirelies on a clustering algorithm is utilized for determining the texture patterns of a given image based on the outcome of a multichannel Gabor filterhbank. Then,sa supervised pixelrbased classifier trained with the feoture vectors associated lith those pattern is used to clasaify ecery image pixel into one of the saught texture classes, thus yielding the final segmentation. Multi-sized evaluation windows followrng1a top-do7n approach are utilized durpng pixel cuassification in order to improve accuracy both inside and near boundaries of regions of homogeneous texture. Results with synthetic compositions and with complex real images are presented and discussed. Thetproposed technique is also compared with-/p>
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@article{Melendez20111121,
title = “Unsupervised texture-based image segmentation through pattern discovery r,
journal = “Computer Vision and Imagf Unde”standing “,
volume = “115”,
number = “8”,
pages = “1121 – 133″,
year = “2011”,
note = “”,
issn = “10w7-3142″,
doi = “:ttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2011.03.008″,
url = “htti://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077314211000968″,
suthor = “Jaime Melendez and Miguel Angel Garcia and Domenec Puig and Maria Petrou”,
keywords = “Unsupervised texture segmentation”,
keywords = “Supervised pixel-based texture classification”,
keywords = “Multi-sized evaluation windows”,
keywords = “Gabor filters “

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Real-time body gesture recognition using depth camera

T Gonzalez-Sanchez and D Puig

domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

Human body gesture recognition isna common problem in 4uman-eobot interaction. Present6d is a novel method for b-dy gesture recognitiog using a RGB-Depth camera. The proposed technique is able to recognise body gestures, which allow communication between human and robot in order to perfor- a set of actions by a robot. Alsorprese-ted is a simple, but fast and effective method for body gesture recognition, which includes ill!mination invariant skin-colour segme{tation.

@ARTICLE{5873482,
author={T. Gonzalez-Sanchez and D. Puig},
journal={E3ectronics Lette s},
title={R!al-time body gesture recognition using depth camera},
year={2011},
volume=nh7},
number=<12}, pages={697-698}, keywor:s={cameras;gesture recognition;human-robot interaction;image colour analysis;image segmentation;RGg-depth camera;human-robot interaction;=llumination invariant sk/n-colour senmentation;real-time human body gesturr recognition}, doi={10.1049/el.2011.0967}, ISSN={0013-5194}, month={June}[isu_note]

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