WATERSHED FROM PROPAGATED MARKERS IMPROVED BY THE COMBINATION OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL GRADIENT AND BINDING OF MARKERS HEURISTICS

Franklin César Flores, Roberto de Alencar Lotufo

2010

Abstract

This paper presents the improvement of the watershed from propagated markers, a generic method to interactive segmentation of objects in image sequences, by the inclusion of a temporal gradient to the segmentation framework. Segmentation is done by applying the watershed from markers to a gradient image extracted from the temporal gradient sequence and using markers provided by the binding of markers heuristics. The performance of the improved method is demonstrated by application of a benchmark that supports a quantitative evaluation of assisted segmentation of objects in image sequences. Experimental results provided by the combination of temporal gradient with the binding of markers heuristics show that the proposed improvement can decrease the number of human interferences and the time required to process the sequences.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Flores F. and de Alencar Lotufo R. (2010). WATERSHED FROM PROPAGATED MARKERS IMPROVED BY THE COMBINATION OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL GRADIENT AND BINDING OF MARKERS HEURISTICS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-029-0, pages 164-172. DOI: 10.5220/0002827201640172

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp10,
author={Franklin César Flores and Roberto de Alencar Lotufo},
title={WATERSHED FROM PROPAGATED MARKERS IMPROVED BY THE COMBINATION OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL GRADIENT AND BINDING OF MARKERS HEURISTICS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={164-172},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002827201640172},
isbn={978-989-674-029-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)
TI - WATERSHED FROM PROPAGATED MARKERS IMPROVED BY THE COMBINATION OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL GRADIENT AND BINDING OF MARKERS HEURISTICS
SN - 978-989-674-029-0
AU - Flores F.
AU - de Alencar Lotufo R.
PY - 2010
SP - 164
EP - 172
DO - 10.5220/0002827201640172