Towards a Hybrid Approach of Self-Organizing Map and Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise for Image Segmentation

Qi Chen, Kevin Kam Fung Yuen, Chun Guan

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Abstract

Image segmentation is the process to divide a digital image into a number of regions for further usage. Color images can be segmented by applying density-based clustering methods, e.g. Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN), which is used to identify the arbitrary shaped clusters. The drawback of DBSCAN is the high computational complexity whilst the size of image input is normally very large. Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a dimensionality reduction method which can be applied to reduce the dimensions of image processing tasks. This paper proposes a hybrid method of SOM and DBSCAN (SOM-DBSCAN) for image segmentation. To evaluating the usability of the proposed SOM-DBSCAN method, four images are used to benchmark image segmentation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 10th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE 2017
EditorsHani Hamdan, Dhiya Al-Jumeily, Abir Hussain, Hissam Tawfik, Jade Hind
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages238-241
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538617212
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jul 2017
Event10th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE 2017 - Paris, France
Duration: 14 Jun 201716 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE
ISSN (Print)2161-1343

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE 2017
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period14/06/1716/06/17

Keywords

  • Computer Vision
  • DBSCAN
  • Image Segmentation
  • SOM

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