特征空间稳健性分析：彩色图像分割外文文献翻译.doc

外文文献翻译 （1）外文文献原文 Robust Analysis of Feature Spaces: Color Image Segmentation Abstract A general technique for the recovery of significant image features is presented. The technique is based on the mean shift algorithm, a simple nonparametric procedure for estimating density gradients. Drawbacks of the current methods (including robust clustering) are avoided. Feature space of any nature can be processed, and as an example, color image segmentation is discussed. The segmentation is completely autonomous, only its class is chosen by the user. Thus, the same program can produce a high quality edge image, or provide, by extracting all the significant colors, a preprocessor for content-based query systems. A 512512 color image is analyzed in less than 10 seconds on a standard workstation. Gray level images are handled as color images having only the lightness coordinate. Keywords: robust pattern analysis, low-level vision, content-based indexing 1 Introduction Feature space analysis is a widely used tool for solving low-level image understanding tasks. Given an image, feature vectors are extracted from local neighborhoods and mapped into the space spanned by their components. Significant features in the image then correspond to high density regions in this space. Feature space analysis is the procedure of recovering the centers of the high density regions, i.e., the representations of the significant image features. Histogram based techniques, Hough transform are examples of the approach. When the number of distinct feature vectors is large, the size of the feature space is reduced by grouping nearby vectors into a single cell. A discretized feature space is called an accumulator. Whenever the size of the accumulator cell is not adequate for the data, serious artifacts can appear. The problem was extensively studied in the context of the Hough transform, e.g.. Thus, for satisfactory results a feature space should have continuous coordinate system. The content of a contin