Morphological Refinement of an Image Segmentation

  • Marcin Iwanowski
  • Pierre Soille
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3691)

Abstract

This paper describes a method to improve a given segmentation result in order to produce a new, refined and more accurate segmented image. The method consists of three phases: shrinking of the input partitions, filtering of the input imagery leading to a mask image, and expansion of the shrunk partitions within the filtered image. The concept is illustrated for the enhancement of a land cover data set using multispectral satellite imagery.

Keywords

Land Cover Image Segmentation Segmentation Result Expansion Phase Mathematical Morphology 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Marcin Iwanowski
    • 1
  • Pierre Soille
    • 1
  1. 1.Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, T.P. 262IspraItaly

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