Unsupervised segmentation of gray level Markov model textures with hierarchical self organizing maps

Segmentation of gray level images into regions of uniform texture is investigated. An unsupervised approach through the use of Kohonen's self organizing map (SOM) and a multilayer version of it, the hierarchical self organizing map (HSOM), is employed to find the regions in an image composed of textures from different classes. For testing, gray level artificial textured images modeled as Markov random fields are used as the input. No parameter estimation is done. The size and the topology of SOM and HSOM are independent from the size of the input image. The segmentation results are very promising.

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