Saliency-Driven Active Contour Model for Image Segmentation
- Authors
- Iqbal, Ehtesham; Niaz, Asim; Memon, Asif Aziz; Asim, Usman; Choi, Kwang Nam
- Issue Date
- Nov-2020
- Publisher
- IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- Keywords
- Image segmentation; Computational modeling; Active contours; Level set; Image edge detection; Nonhomogeneous media; Mathematical model; Active contours; saliency map; image segmentation; level set; intensity homogeneity
- Citation
- IEEE ACCESS, v.8, pp 208978 - 208991
- Pages
- 14
- Journal Title
- IEEE ACCESS
- Volume
- 8
- Start Page
- 208978
- End Page
- 208991
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/47953
- DOI
- 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3038945
- ISSN
- 2169-3536
- Abstract
- Active contour models have achieved prominent success in the area of image segmentation, allowing complex objects to be segmented from the background for further analysis. Existing models can be divided into region-based active contour models and edge-based active contour models. However, both models use direct image data to achieve segmentation and face many challenging problems in terms of the initial contour position, noise sensitivity, local minima and inefficiency owing to the in-homogeneity of image intensities. The saliency map of an image changes the image representation, making it more visual and meaningful. In this study, we propose a novel model that uses the advantages of a saliency map with local image information (LIF) and overcomes the drawbacks of previous models. The proposed model is driven by a saliency map of an image and the local image information to enhance the progress of the active contour models. In this model, the saliency map of an image is first computed to find the saliency driven local fitting energy. Then, the saliency-driven local fitting energy is combined with the LIF model, resulting in a final novel energy functional. This final energy functional is formulated through a level set formulation, and regulation terms are added to evolve the contour more precisely across the object boundaries. The quality of the proposed method was verified on different synthetic images, real images and publicly available datasets, including medical images. The image segmentation results, and quantitative comparisons confirmed the contour initialization independence, noise insensitivity, and superior segmentation accuracy of the proposed model in comparison to the other segmentation models.
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