A Sparse Graph Formulation for Efficient Spectral Image Segmentation

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Palnitkar, Rahul, Neto, Jeova Farias Sales Rocha
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2023
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866910475828068352
author Palnitkar, Rahul
Neto, Jeova Farias Sales Rocha
author_facet Palnitkar, Rahul
Neto, Jeova Farias Sales Rocha
contents Spectral Clustering is one of the most traditional methods to solve segmentation problems. Based on Normalized Cuts, it aims at partitioning an image using an objective function defined by a graph. Despite their mathematical attractiveness, spectral approaches are traditionally neglected by the scientific community due to their practical issues and underperformance. In this paper, we adopt a sparse graph formulation based on the inclusion of extra nodes to a simple grid graph. While the grid encodes the pixel spatial disposition, the extra nodes account for the pixel color data. Applying the original Normalized Cuts algorithm to this graph leads to a simple and scalable method for spectral image segmentation, with an interpretable solution. Our experiments also demonstrate that our proposed methodology over performs both traditional and modern unsupervised algorithms for segmentation in both real and synthetic data.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2306_13166
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle A Sparse Graph Formulation for Efficient Spectral Image Segmentation
Palnitkar, Rahul
Neto, Jeova Farias Sales Rocha
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Spectral Clustering is one of the most traditional methods to solve segmentation problems. Based on Normalized Cuts, it aims at partitioning an image using an objective function defined by a graph. Despite their mathematical attractiveness, spectral approaches are traditionally neglected by the scientific community due to their practical issues and underperformance. In this paper, we adopt a sparse graph formulation based on the inclusion of extra nodes to a simple grid graph. While the grid encodes the pixel spatial disposition, the extra nodes account for the pixel color data. Applying the original Normalized Cuts algorithm to this graph leads to a simple and scalable method for spectral image segmentation, with an interpretable solution. Our experiments also demonstrate that our proposed methodology over performs both traditional and modern unsupervised algorithms for segmentation in both real and synthetic data.
title A Sparse Graph Formulation for Efficient Spectral Image Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13166