Unit 5

Image Segmentation
Syllabus
• Image Segmentation: Point, Line, and Edge Detection, Detection
of Isolated Points, Line Detection, Edge Models, Basic Edge
Detection, Thresholding, Foundation, Basic Global Thresholding.
Introduction to image segmentation
• The purpose of image segmentation is to pa ition an
image into meaningful regions with respect to a
pa icular application
• The segmentation is based on measurements taken
from the image and might be greylevel, colour, texture,
depth or motion
Introduction to image segmentation
• Image segmentation divides an image into regions that are connected and
have some similarity within the region and some difference between
adjacent regions.
• The goal is usually to find individual objects in an image.
• For the most pa there are fundamentally two kinds of approaches to
segmentation: discontinuity and similarity.
• Similarity may be due to pixel intensity, color or texture.
• Differences are sudden changes (discontinuities) in any of these, but especially
sudden changes in intensity along a boundary line, which is called an edge.
 Detection of discontinuities
(Segmentation)
• Discontinuity means abrupt change in the image pat tern. Observe
the following images: point and lines are representation for abrupt
changes.
• The discontinuity-based segmentation can be classified into three
approaches:
• (1) Point detection,
• (2) Line detection, and
• (3) Edge detection.
Example for point detection
• For horizontal
lines
Edge models
Summary
Summary
Thresholding
Thresholding
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