A Comparison of Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms Applied to Feature Extraction on Vineyard

Abstract

Image segmentation is a process by which an image is partitioned into regions with similar features. Many approaches have been proposed for color image segmentation, but Fuzzy C-Means has been widely used, because it has a good performance in a large class of images. However, it is not adequate for noisy images and it also takes more time for execution as compared to other method as K-means. For this reason, several methods have been proposed to improve these weaknesses. Method like Possibilistic C-Means, Fuzzy Possibilistic C-Means, Robust Fuzzy Possibilistic C-Means and Fuzzy C-Means with Gustafson-Kessel algorithm. In this paper we perform a comparison of these clustering algorithms applied to feature extraction on vineyard images. Segmented images are evaluated using several quality parameters such as the rate of correctly classied area and runtim