Removing the boundary after segmentation ?

asked 2017-06-14 03:09:11 -0600

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Hey all, I am working on image segmentation. After using watershed, I get the result shown in the first image below where the black lines indicate the boundary between regions. The result I would like to get however, should look like the second image without any black pixels (boundaries).

Currently, the way I assign boundary pixels to a region is as follows

1. loop through the entire image to look for black pixels. if it is a black pixel (boundary) then,
2. check the pixels to the right, bottom, and diagonal (right-bottom)  
3. set the value of the black pixel to one of the 3 neighbors mentioned in step 2.

Would this be efficient enough ? I was hoping if could share a more efficient algorithm if the one I wrote above is not good.

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Did you try looping throw the image in the way you described? I'm not an expert in this kind of things, but i have seen a code like below in tutorials before and would say its a common method. 

for( int x = 0; x < src.rows; x++ ) 
{
  for( int y = 0; y < src.cols; y++ )
  {
      if ( src.at<Vec3b>(x, y) == Vec3b(0,0,0) ) 
      {
        src.at<Vec3b>(x, y)[0] = 255;
        src.at<Vec3b>(x, y)[1] = 255;
        src.at<Vec3b>(x, y)[2] = 255;
      }
   }
}

I hope i don't understand something wrong - if so feel free to remove this comment.

Franz Kaiser gravatar imageFranz Kaiser ( 2017-06-14 04:04:15 -0600 )edit
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Actually it is black because of visualisation but in fact its a negative value as described in the documentation: In the function output, each pixel in markers is set to a value of the "seed" components or to -1 at boundaries between the regions. Indeed looping the image and replacing those with the best neighbor element is the way to go.

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2017-06-14 06:35:41 -0600 )edit
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