关键词: 图像分割, 图像噪声, 单类支持向量机, 离群检测, 能量项

Abstract:

To deal with poor robustness in strong noise environment, weak adaptability to complex mixed noise that appear in the existing unsupervised image segmentation models, an improved noise-robust image segmentation model based on One-class SVM (Support Vector Machine) method was proposed. Firstly, a data outlier detection mechanism was constructed based on One-class SVM. Secondly, an outlier degree was introduced into the energy function, so that more accurate image information could be obtained by the proposed model under multiple noise intensities and the failure of weight-descend mechanism in strong noise environment was avoided. Finally, the segmentation contour was driven to the target edge by minimizing the energy function. In noise image segmentation experiments, the proposed model could obtain ideal segmentation results with different types and intensities of noise. Under F₁-score metric, the proposed model is 0.2 to 0.3 higher than LCK (Local Correntropy-based K-means) model, and has better stability in strong noise environments. The segmentation convergence time of the proposed model is only slightly longer than that of LCK model by about 0.1 s. Experimental results show that the proposed model is more robust to probabilistic, extreme values and mixed noise without significantly increase of segmentation time, and can segment natural images with noise.

Key words: image segmentation, image noise, One-class Support-Vector-Machine (SVM), outlier detection, energy term