Image analysis – Image segmentation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-20
2007-11-20
Chen, Wenpeng (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image segmentation
C382S156000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10445247
ABSTRACT:
Cells i corresponding to pixels are initialized into a non-excitation state, to calculate coupling weights Wikbetween the eight cells k adjacent to the cells i, thereby determining leader cells pi=1 based on calculation results. Next, one leader cell yet to be excited is selected as a self-excitable cell. The selected cell is put into the excitation state, the excitable cells are selected based on the coupling weights between the adjacent cells, and the selected cells are put into the excitation state. These operations are repeated until no excitable cell is detected any more and, if there no excitable cell is detected any more, inhibition processing is performed, thereby completing image segmentation of one region. These operations are repeated until there is no non-excited and non-inhibited leader cell any more, thereby pinpointing regions belonging to the same category from an input image and identifying them as an image segmentation regions.
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Harada Youmei
Koide Tetsushi
Mattausch Hans Juergen
Morimoto Takashi
Chen Wenpeng
Ge Yuzhen
President of Hiroshima University
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