Performance evaluation of image segmentation

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2006

Authors

Fernando Monteiro (Author) FEUP; Aurélio Campilho (Author) FEUP

Journal

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Title: INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS: DESIGN, SPECIFICATION, AND VERIFICATION

Vol. 25

Pages: 248-259

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electronic engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-004-PX8

DOI: 10.1007/11867586_24

Abstract (EN): In spite of significant advances in image segmentation techniques, evaluation of these methods thus far has been largely subjective. Typically, the effectiveness of a new algorithm is demonstrated only by the presentation of a few segmented images that axe evaluated by some method, or it is otherwise left to subjective evaluation by the reader. We propose a new approach for evaluation of segmentation that takes into account not only the accuracy of the boundary localization of the created segments but also the under-segmentation and over-segmentation effects, regardless to the number of regions in each partition. In addition, it takes into account the way humans perceive visual information. This new metric can be applied both to automatically provide a ranking among different segmentation algorithms and to find an optimal set of input parameters of a given algorithm.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12