Image segmentation device

Details Image segmentation device Image segmentation device

1994-10-19

1997-05-20

Couso, Yon J.

Image analysis

Image segmentation

382282, G06K 900

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056319754

ABSTRACT:
Images having a moving pattern against a fixed or quasi-fixed background are segmented by determining a silhouette of the moving pattern, and forming a segmentation image filling the silhouette. On a pixel-by-pixel basis, differences are determined between the current image and previous images of a sequence, and compared with a threshold to form a binary image of background and useful zone. The boundaries of the useful zone are regularized, and irregularities in the useful zone and in the background are suppressed. A segmentation image is then formed within the silhouette.

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