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Unsupervised Segmentation of Objects using Genetic Algorithms  

김은이 (건국대학교 인터넷미디어공학부)
박세현 (대구대학교 정보통신공학부)
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The current paper proposes a genetic algorithm (GA)-based segmentation method that can automatically extract and track moving objects. The proposed method mainly consists of spatial and temporal segmentation; the spatial segmentation divides each frame into regions with accurate boundaries, and the temporal segmentation divides each frame into background and foreground areas. The spatial segmentation is performed using chromosomes that evolve distributed genetic algorithms (DGAs). However, unlike standard DGAs, the chromosomes are initiated from the segmentation result of the previous frame, then only unstable chromosomes corresponding to actual moving object parts are evolved by mating operators. For the temporal segmentation, adaptive thresholding is performed based on the intensity difference between two consecutive frames. The spatial and temporal segmentation results are then combined for object extraction, and tracking is performed using the natural correspondence established by the proposed spatial segmentation method. The main advantages of the proposed method are twofold: First, proposed video segmentation method does not require any a priori information second, the proposed GA-based segmentation method enhances the search efficiency and incorporates a tracking algorithm within its own architecture. These advantages were confirmed by experiments where the proposed method was success fully applied to well-known and natural video sequences.
Keywords
Object Segmentation; spatial segmentation; temporal segmentation; genetic algorithm; adaptive thresholding;
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