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Normalized cut approximations

Posted on:2012-10-15Degree:M.SType:Thesis
University:The University of IowaCandidate:Monroe, William StonewallFull Text:PDF
GTID:2458390008494510Subject:Engineering
Abstract/Summary:
Image segmentation is an important task in computer vision and understanding. Graph Cuts have been shown to be useful in image segmentation problems. Using a criterion for segmentation optimality, they can obtain segmentation without relying heavily on a priori information regarding the specific type of object. Discussed here are a few approximations to the Normalized Cut criterion, the solving of which has been shown to be an NP-hard problem. Two Normalized Cut algorithms have been previously proposed, and a third is proposed here which accomplishes approximation by a similar method as one of the previous algorithms. It is also more efficient than either of the previously proposed Normalized Cut approximations.
Keywords/Search Tags:Normalized cut, Segmentation
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