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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2010.15.10.071

Environment-Adaptive Image Segmentation Using Color Invariants  

Jang, Seok-Woo (안양대학교 디지털미디어학과)
Abstract
Even though various types of image segmentation methods have been extensively introduced, robustly segmenting images to environmental conditions such as illumination changes, shading, highlight, etc, has been known to be a very difficult task. To resolve the problem in some degree, we propose in this paper an environment-adaptive image segmentation approach using color invariants. The suggested method first introduces several color invariants like W, C, U, N, and H, and automatically measures environmental conditions in which images are captured. It then chooses the most adequate color invariant to environmental factors, and effectively extracts edges using the selected invariant. Experimental results show that the proposed method can robustly perform edge-based segmentation rather than existing methods. We expect that our method will be useful in many real applications which require edge-based image segmentation.
Keywords
Color invariant; Image segmentation; Surrounding environment; Edge;
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