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29 August 2016 Edge grouping based on Gestalt principles and spectral clustering
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Proceedings Volume 10033, Eighth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2016); 1003308 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2244612
Event: Eighth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2016), 2016, Chengu, China
Abstract
The human visual systems tend to integrate oriented line segments into groups if they follow the Gestalt principles. It is commonly acknowledged that early human visual processing operates bye first performing edge detection followed by perceptual organization to group edges into object-like structures. Edge groups can be used to improve a variety of tasks such as multi-threshold selection, object proposal generation sketch segmentation. In this paper, a perceptual grouping framework that organizes image edges into meaningful structures is proposed. The grouper formulates edge grouping as a spectral clustering problem, where a computation model based on Gestalt principles is developed to encode probabilities of candidate edge pairs. First, a probability model is proposed as grouping constraint inspired by the Gestalt principles, i.e. proximity, continuity and similarity. Then we take the grouping constraint as the input and perform spectral clustering to integrate edge fragments into groups. Experiments have shown that our algorithm can effectively organizes image edges into meaningful structures.
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Xiao Sun, Hao Dou, Ke Shang, JinWen Tian, Delie Ming, and Xiangchun Li "Edge grouping based on Gestalt principles and spectral clustering", Proc. SPIE 10033, Eighth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2016), 1003308 (29 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2244612
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KEYWORDS
Visual process modeling

Edge detection

Visualization

Image segmentation

Infrared imaging

Infrared radiation

Visual system

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