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Automatic Leaf Extraction from Outdoor Images
Automatic plant recognition and disease analysis may be streamlined by an
image of a complete, isolated leaf as an initial input. Segmenting leaves from
natural images is a hard problem. Cluttered and complex backgrounds: often
composed of other leaves are commonplace. Furthermore, their appearance is
highly dependent upon illumination and viewing perspective. In order to address
these issues we propose a methodology which exploits the leaves venous systems
in tandem with other low level features. Background and leaf markers are
created using colour, intensity and texture. Two approaches are investigated:
watershed and graph-cut and results compared. Primary-secondary vein detection
and a protrusion-notch removal are applied to refine the extracted leaf. The
efficacy of our approach is demonstrated against existing work.Comment: 13 pages, India-UK Advanced Technology Centre of Excellence in Next
Generation Networks, Systems and Services (IU-ATC), 201
On morphological hierarchical representations for image processing and spatial data clustering
Hierarchical data representations in the context of classi cation and data
clustering were put forward during the fties. Recently, hierarchical image
representations have gained renewed interest for segmentation purposes. In this
paper, we briefly survey fundamental results on hierarchical clustering and
then detail recent paradigms developed for the hierarchical representation of
images in the framework of mathematical morphology: constrained connectivity
and ultrametric watersheds. Constrained connectivity can be viewed as a way to
constrain an initial hierarchy in such a way that a set of desired constraints
are satis ed. The framework of ultrametric watersheds provides a generic scheme
for computing any hierarchical connected clustering, in particular when such a
hierarchy is constrained. The suitability of this framework for solving
practical problems is illustrated with applications in remote sensing
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