Segmentation of range images: An orthogonal moment-based integrated approach
- Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States). Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems
- Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States). Dept. of Computer Science and the Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems
A new approach to range image segmentation is presented. The proposed approach involves two phases in which the region and edge information detected using a set of orthogonal Zernike moment-based operators are combined to provide robust segmentation of range images. In the first phase, each range image point is characterized by the surface normal vector and the depth value at that point. A surface feature-based clustering of range image points yields its initial region-based segmentation. This initial segmentation phase often produces oversegmented images. In the second phase of the proposed technique, the oversegmented image is resegmented by appropriately merging adjacent regions using the edge information to produce final segmentation. One attractive characteristics of the proposed technique is that the same set of three moment-based operators is used to extract both surface and edge features. Thus only three convolution operations are needed at an image point to compute all the desired surface and edge features associated with that point. The performances of the proposed Zernike moment-based operators in surface and edge feature detection are theoretically analyzed. Experimental results are included to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.
- OSTI ID:
- 142456
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 9, Issue 4; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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