Title page for ETD etd-11152004-120254

Type of Document

Thesis

Author

Yu, Hyun Geun

URN

etd-11152004-120254

Title

Morphological Image Segmentation for Co-Aligned Multiple Images Using Watersheds Transformation

Degree

Master of Science

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Rodney G. Roberts	Committee Chair
Anke Meyer-Baese	Committee Member
Simon Y. Foo	Committee Member

Keywords

Region Merging
Image Segmentation
Morphology
Watersheds Transformation
Co-Aligned Images

Date of Defense

2004-11-05

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

Image segmentation is one of the most important categories of image processing. The purpose of image segmentation is to divide an original image into homogeneous regions. It can be applied as a pre-processing stage for other image processing methods. There exist several approaches for image segmentation methods for image processing. The watersheds transformation is studied in this thesis as a particular method of a region-based approach to the segmentation of an image. The complete transformation incorporates a pre-processing and post-processing stage that deals with embedded problems such as edge ambiguity and the output of a large number of regions. Multiscale Morphological Gradient (MMG) and Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) are two methods that are pre-processing and post-processing stages, respectively. RAG incorporates dissimilarity criteria to merge adjacent homogeneous regions.
In this thesis, the proposed system has been applied to a set of co-aligned images, which include a pair of intensity and range images. It is expected that the hidden edges within the intensity image can be detected by observing range data or vice versa. Also it is expected that the contribution of the range image in region merging can compensate for the dominance of shadows within the intensity image regardless of the original intensity of the object.

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