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We present an algorithm for automatic selection of features that best segment an image in texture homogeneous regions. The set of “best extractors” are automatically selected among the Gabor filters, Co-occurrence matrix, Law’s energies and intensity response. Noise-features elimination is performed by taking into account the magnitude and the granularity of each feature image, i.e. the compute image when a specific feature extractor is applied. Redundant features are merged by means of probabilistic rules that measure the similarity between a pair of image feature. Then, cascade applications of general purpose image segmentation algorithms (K-Means, Graph-Cut and EC-GMMF) are used for computing the final segmented image. Additionally, we propose an evolutive gradient descent scheme for training the method parameters for a benchmark image set. We demonstrate by experimental comparisons, with stat of the art methods, a superior performance of our technique.
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Ramírez, J., Rivera, M. (2006). Probabilistic Rules for Automatic Texture Segmentation. In: Gelbukh, A., Reyes-Garcia, C.A. (eds) MICAI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4293. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11925231_74
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