한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지 (Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information)

  • 제17권2호
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  • Pages.49-57
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  • 2012
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  • 1598-849X(pISSN)
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  • 2383-9945(eISSN)
한국컴퓨터정보학회 (Korean Society of Computer Information)
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영상 분할을 위한 개선된 공간적 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘

An Enhanced Spatial Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for Image Segmentation

  • Truong, Tung X. (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Kim, Jong-Myon (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
  • 투고 : 2011.05.09
  • 심사 : 2011.06.24
  • 발행 : 2012.02.29
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FCM(fuzzy c-means)은 일반적으로 영상 분할에서 좋은 성능을 보인다. 하지만 공간 정보를 사용하지 않는 일반적인 FCM 알고리즘은 낮은 대비의 영상, 경계선이 뚜렷하지 않은 영상, 잡음이 포함된 영상의 분할에는 좋지 않은 성능을 보인다. 이와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 3x3 크기의 윈도우를 이용하여 윈도우 내의 중심 픽셀과 주변 픽셀간의 거리 정보를 소속 함수에 추가한 개선된 공간적 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 분할 계수, 분할 엔트로피, Xie-Bdni 함수와 같은 클러스터링 검증 함수를 이용하여 FCM 기반의 다양한 클러스터링 알고리즘과 제안한 알고리즘과의 성능을 비교하였다. 성능 평가 결과 제안한 알고리즘이 기존의 FCM기반의 클러스터링 알고리즘보다 클러스터링 검증 함수에서 성능이 우수함을 확인 할 수 있었다.

Conventional fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithms have achieved a good clustering performance. However, they do not fully utilize the spatial information in the image and this results in lower clustering performance for images that have low contrast, vague boundaries, and noises. To overcome this issue, we propose an enhanced spatial fuzzy c-means (ESFCM) algorithm that takes into account the influence of neighboring pixels on the center pixel by assigning weights to the neighbors in a $3{\times}3$ square window. To evaluate between the proposed ESFCM and various FCM based segmentation algorithms, we utilized clustering validity functions such as partition coefficient ($V_{pc}$), partition entropy ($V_{pe}$), and Xie-Bdni function ($V_{xb}$). Experimental results show that the proposed ESFCM outperforms other FCM based algorithms in terms of clustering validity functions.

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