Color Image Segmentation via Improved K-Means Algorithm
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Data clustering techniques are often used to segment the real world images. Unsupervised image segmentation algorithms that are based on the clustering suffer from random initialization. There is a need for efficient and effective image segmentation algorithm, which can be used in the computer vision, object recognition, image recognition, or compression. To address these problems, the authors present a density-based initialization scheme to segment the color images. In the kernel density based clustering technique, the data sample is mapped to a high-dimensional space for the effective data classification. The Gaussian kernel is used for the density estimation and for the mapping of sample image into a high- dimensional color space. The proposed initialization scheme for the k-means clustering algorithm can homogenously segment an image into the regions of interest with the capability of avoiding the dead centre and the trapped centre by local minima phenomena. The performance of the experimental result indicates that the proposed approach is more effective, compared to the other existing clustering-based image segmentation algorithms. In the proposed approach, the Berkeley image database has been used for the comparison analysis with the recent clustering-based image segmentation algorithms like k-means++, k-medoids and k-mode.
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Ajay Kumar, Shishir Kumar
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- DOI 10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070307
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