A Robust SLIC Based Approach for Segmentation Using Canny Edge Detector

Abstract

An accurate image segmentation in noisy environment is complex and challenging. Unlike existing state-of-the-art methods that use superpixels for successful segmentation, we propose a new approach for noise-robust SLIC (Simple Linear Iterative Clustering) segmentation that incorporates a Canny edge detector. By leveraging Canny edge information, the proposed method modifies the pixel intensity distance measurement to overcome boundary adherence challenge. Furthermore, we adopt a selective approach to update cluster centers, focusing on pixels that contribute less to the noise. Extensive experiments on synthetic noisy images demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. It significantly improves SLIC's performance in noisy image segmentation and boundary adherence, making it a promising technique for vision processing tasks.

Received: 10 June 2023 | Revised: 10 August 2023 | Accepted: 17 August 2023 

Conflicts of Interest

Palaiahnakote Shivakumara is an editor-in-chief and Umapada Pal is an advisory board member for Artificial Intelligence and Applications, and were not involved in the editorial review or the decision to publish this article. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement

The data supporting the findings of this study is BSDS500, which is openly available at: https://opendatalab.com/OpenDataLab/BSDS500.

Author Contribution Statement

Ayush Roy: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Investigation, Writing - original draft, Visualization. Palaiahnakote Shivakumara: Conceptualization, Validation, Writing - original draft, Supervision, Project administration. Umapada Pal: Conceptualization, Writing - review & editing.