Four color theorem and convex relaxation for image segmentation with any number of regions

Ruiliang Zhang; Xavier Bresson; Tony  F. Chan; Xue-Cheng Tai

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Four color theorem and convex relaxation for image segmentation with any number of regions

Ruiliang Zhang ^1, , Xavier Bresson ^2, , Tony F. Chan ^1, and Xue-Cheng Tai ^3,

1.	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, China
2.	City University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong
3.	University of Bergen, University of Bergen Bergen

Received June 2012 Revised March 2013 Published September 2013

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Image segmentation is an essential problem in imaging science. One of the most successful segmentation models is the piecewise constant Mumford-Shah minimization model. This minimization problem is however difficult to carry out, mainly due to the non-convexity of the energy. Recent advances based on convex relaxation methods are capable of estimating almost perfectly the geometry of the regions to be segmented when the mean intensity and the number of segmented regions are known a priori. The next important challenge is to provide a tight approximation of the optimal geometry, mean intensity and the number of regions simultaneously while keeping the computational time and memory usage reasonable. In this work, we propose a new algorithm that combines convex relaxation methods with the four color theorem to deal with the unsupervised segmentation problem. More precisely, the proposed algorithm can segment any a priori unknown number of regions with only four intensity functions and four indicator (``labeling") functions. The number of regions in our segmentation model is decided by one parameter that controls the regularization strength of the geometry, i.e., the total length of the boundary of all the regions. The segmented image function can take as many constant values as needed.

Keywords: four color theorem, Mumford-Shah model, Unsupervised segmentation, convex relaxation method..

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 68U10, 52B55; Secondary: 65K1.

Citation: Ruiliang Zhang, Xavier Bresson, Tony F. Chan, Xue-Cheng Tai. Four color theorem and convex relaxation for image segmentation with any number of regions. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2013, 7 (3) : 1099-1113. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2013.7.1099

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[8]	Y. Boykov and V. Kolmogorov, An experimental comparison of Min-Cut/Max-Flow algorithms for energy minimization in vision,, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26 (2004), 1124. Google Scholar
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[11]	E. S. Brown, T. F. Chan and X. Bresson, Completely convex formulation of the chan-vese image segmentation model,, International Journal of Computer Vision, 98 (2012), 103. doi: 10.1007/s11263-011-0499-y. Google Scholar
[12]	V. Caselles, R. Kimmel and G. Sapiro, Geodesic Active Contours,, International Journal of Computer Vision, 22 (1997), 61. Google Scholar
[13]	T. Chan, S. Esedoglu and M. Nikolova, Algorithms for finding global minimizers of image segmentation and denoising models,, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 66 (2006), 1632. doi: 10.1137/040615286. Google Scholar
[14]	T. Chan and L. Vese, Active contours without edges,, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 10 (2001), 266. doi: 10.1109/83.902291. Google Scholar
[15]	D. Donoho, De-Noising by soft-thresholding,, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 41 (1995), 613. doi: 10.1109/18.382009. Google Scholar
[16]	V. Estellers, D. Zosso, R. Lai, J. Thiran, S. Osher and X. Bresson, An efficient algorithm for level set method preserving distance function,, UCLA CAM Report 21 (2011), 21 (2011), 4722. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2012.2202674. Google Scholar
[17]	S. Geman and D. Geman, Stochastic relaxation, Gibbs distributions, and the Bayesian restoration of images,, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 6 (1984), 721. Google Scholar
[18]	T. Goldstein and S. Osher, The split bregman method for l1 regularized problems,, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2 (2009), 323. doi: 10.1137/080725891. Google Scholar
[19]	E. Hodneland, X.-C. Tai and H.-H. Gerdes, Four-color theorem and level set methods for watershed segmentation,, International Journal of Computer Vision, 82 (2009), 264. doi: 10.1007/s11263-008-0199-4. Google Scholar
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[26]	J. Lie, M. Lysaker and X. Tai, A variant of the level set method and applications to image segmentation,, Mathematics of computation, 75 (2006), 1155. doi: 10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01835-7. Google Scholar
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