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Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using an Iterative Entropy Regularized Likelihood Learning Algorithm

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Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2006 (ISNN 2006)

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As for unsupervised image segmentation, one important application is content based image retrieval. In this context, the key problem is to automatically determine the number of regions(i.e., clusters) for each image so that we can then perform a query on the region of interest. This paper presents an iterative entropy regularized likelihood (ERL) learning algorithm for cluster analysis based on a mixture model to solve this problem. Several experiments have demonstrated that the iterative ERL learning algorithm can automatically detect the number of regions in a image and outperforms the generalized competitive clustering.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science & Technology of Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Zhiwu Lu

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

    Jun Wang

  2. Computational Intelligence Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 610054, Chengdu, P.R. China

    Zhang Yi

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Louisville, 40292, Louisville, KY, U.S.A

    Jacek M. Zurada

  4. Laboratory for Computational Biology, Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, 800 Dong Chuan Rd., 200240, Shanghai, China

    Bao-Liang Lu

  5. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, UK

    Hujun Yin

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Lu, Z. (2006). Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using an Iterative Entropy Regularized Likelihood Learning Algorithm. In: Wang, J., Yi, Z., Zurada, J.M., Lu, BL., Yin, H. (eds) Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2006. ISNN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11760023_72

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