IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING A MODIFIED SPLIT AND MERGE TECHNIQUE
Javier Lorenzo-Navarro, Francisco Mario Hernández Tejera · Cybernetics & Systems · 1994
In this paper, a reformulation of the processes that composed the split and merge technique is proposed. A recursive split process is done first; then, after the merge process, a segmentation of the image is obtained. This is possible because the merging is implemented like a growth process, so the grouping has been eliminated. The use of a complete quadtree helps to achieve the reformulation. The determination of the region uniformity in each process is carried out with a different predicate, because of the different nature of the two processes. Experiments on a blocks world image and an industrial parts image are included to show the result of applying the algorithm.