Novel Watershed Algorithm for Touching Rice Image Segmentation
Fang Jun Kuang, Wei Hong Xu, Yanhua Wang · Advanced materials research · 2011
An efficient watershed algorithm is proposed in order to solve the problem that touching rice is difficult to process during consequent image segmentation. First, the binary image is ultra-eroded by using a different structuring element to form different distance image. Second, watershed image is obtained by using the watershed algorithm. Finally, the real watershed can be extracted. Compared with other watershed algorithms, the experiment results demonstrated that this method segmented out rice successfully in the touching rice image and improved the measurement accuracy, and also overcome over-segmentation effectively.