YANG Jia-hong, LIU Jie, ZHONG Jian-cheng, HE Ming-zhi. A Color Image Segmentation Algorithm by Integrating Watershed with Automatic Seeded Region Growing[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2010, 15(1): 63. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20100111.
A color image segmentation algorithm by integrating watershed with automatic seeded region growing is proposed in this paper Anisotropic diffusion based on edge confidence is used for image smoothing preprocessing
which can eliminate noise
while maintain image edge information
and so that the watersheds over segmentation problem is effectively solved The algorithm of automatic seeded region selection based on the mean hue difference is designed to make seeded region growing based on the regions similarity of mean hue value and mean saturation value Furthermore
an algorithm of small region removing is designed to removing the small regionAs a result
the color image segmentation is efficiently realized The experimental results demonstrate that this algorithm is simple and fast
can obtain better segmentation results compared with other algorithms