Model-based learning of local image features for unsupervised texture segmentation

Features that capture well the textural patterns of a certain class of images are crucial for the performance of texture segmentation methods. The manual selection of features or designing new ones can be a tedious task. Therefore, it is desirable to automatically adapt the features to a certain ima...

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Hauptverfasser: Kiechle, Martin (VerfasserIn) , Storath, Martin (VerfasserIn) , Weinmann, Andreas (VerfasserIn) , Kleinsteuber, Martin (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: January 26, 2018
In: IEEE transactions on image processing
Year: 2018, Jahrgang: 27, Heft: 4, Pages: 1994-2007
ISSN:1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2018.2792904
Online-Zugang:Resolving-System, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2018.2792904
Resolving-System, Volltext: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8255629
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Verfasserangaben:Martin Kiechle, Martin Storath, Andreas Weinmann, and Martin Kleinsteuber
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Zusammenfassung:Features that capture well the textural patterns of a certain class of images are crucial for the performance of texture segmentation methods. The manual selection of features or designing new ones can be a tedious task. Therefore, it is desirable to automatically adapt the features to a certain image or class of images. Typically, this requires a large set of training images with similar textures and ground truth segmentation. In this paper, we propose a framework to learn features for texture segmentation when no such training data is available. The cost function for our learning process is constructed to match a commonly used segmentation model, the piecewise constant Mumford-Shah model. This means that the features are learned such that they provide an approximately piecewise constant feature image with a small jump set. Based on this idea, we develop a two-stage algorithm which first learns suitable convolutional features and then performs segmentation. We note that the features can be learned from a small set of images, from a single image, or even from image patches. The proposed method achieves a competitive rank in the Prague texture segmentation benchmark, and it is effective for segmenting histological images.
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ISSN:1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2018.2792904