A fast watershed algorithm based on chain code and its application in image segmentation.
Han SunJingyu YangMingwu RenPublished in: Pattern Recognit. Lett. (2005)
Keyphrases
- watershed algorithm
- chain code
- image segmentation
- watershed segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- binary images
- segmentation method
- graph cuts
- region merging
- lossless compression
- line drawings
- variable length
- shape retrieval
- region growing
- multiscale
- image processing
- shape features
- input image
- morphological filters
- shape prior
- image analysis
- deformable models
- level set method
- energy function
- gray level
- active contours
- feature vectors
- bounding box
- segmentation result
- markov random field
- cortical surface
- level set
- motion estimation