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Block-based tri-channel hybrid segmentation of images for foreground extraction

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Image segmentation is crucial in image analysis, object representation, visualization and other image processing tasks. An image can be distinguished in terms of the foreground and the background. A new hybrid segmentation of images for foreground extraction is proposed, based on Interval Neutrosophic Set (INS) and Sparse Field Active Contour. In this method, an image is represented in three channels using a Gaussian filter bank and each channel is split into blocks to which the INS is applied. The resultant neutrosophic image for three channels undergoes isodata thresholding to obtain the tri-channel edge image, which is segmented using the Sparse Field Active Contour. The proposed method is evaluated by conducting three different experiments in natural image datasets like the Semantic Dataset100, Weizmann_Seg_DB_1obj, BSR and standard MATLAB test images. Finally, it is compared to other existing segmentation methods, which shows promising achievement in terms of their evaluation metrics like overlap-based metrics, pair-counting-based method and distance measures.

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Sinduja, A., Suruliandi, A. Block-based tri-channel hybrid segmentation of images for foreground extraction. Sādhanā 43, 189 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-018-0955-2

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