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Image segmentation library and CLI tool using SNIC and SLIC superpixel algorithms

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Image segmentation library and command line tool using clustering methods.

Currently supported algorithms are the SLIC (simple linear iterative clustering) and SNIC (simple non-iterative clustering) superpixel algorithms. The crate also supports drawing basic contours around the image segments.

Comparison of original and segmented images

To use as a library, add the following to your Cargo.toml. Executable builds can be found at https://github.com/okaneco/simple_clustering/releases.

[dependencies.simple_clustering]
version = "0.2"
default-features = false

Features

  • image segmentation using SNIC and SLIC
  • find mean colors of segmented regions
  • draw contours around segment boundaries
  • command line tool for generating segmented images from JPG/PNG input files

Examples

Images are from the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset and Benchmark unless noted otherwise.

SNIC and SLIC

The algorithm can be selected with the -a option. By default, the algorithm is snic.

simple_clustering -i 295087.jpg
simple_clustering -i 295087.jpg -a slic

The suggested number of superpixels to find is specified with -k or -n. Resulting superpixel counts may be slightly greater or less than this value due to characteristics of seeding or enforcing connectivity of superpixel labels. The default setting is 1000.

simple_clustering -i 295087.jpg -k 200

The -m option is used to control the "compactness" of each superpixel. The number ranges from 1 to 20 with a tradeoff between uniform superpixel size and better boundary adherence. 1 will result in larger and more non-uniform superpixels while 20 will result in more compact and uniform superpixels. By default, -m is set to 10.

simple_clustering -i 55067.jpg -m 1
simple_clustering -i 55067.jpg -m 20

Comparison of compactness parameter, mountains Left image: -m 1. Right image: -m 20.


Contours

The segment color defaults to black, #000, but can be specified with the --segment-color option followed by a 3 or 6 digit hexadecimal RGB color. The following example sets the color to gray, #777. To save the segment contours over the original image data, add the --no-mean flag to skip generating the mean color image.

simple_clustering -i 113016.jpg -k 200 --segments --segment-color 777
simple_clustering -i 113016.jpg -k 200 --segments --no-mean

Comparison of segment paramaters, horses Left image: Segmented image with gray contours. Right image: Superpixel regions drawn over original image data.


Reference

Achanta, R., Shaji, A., Smith, K., Lucchi, A., Fua, P., & Süsstrunk, S. SLIC Superpixels. EPFL Technical Report no. 149300, June 2010.

Achanta, R., Shaji, A., Smith, K., Lucchi, A., Fua, P., & Süsstrunk, S. SLIC Superpixels Compared to State-of-the-art Superpixel Methods. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, num. 11, p. 2274 – 2282, May 2012.

Achanta, R., & Süsstrunk, S. Superpixels and polygons using simple non-iterative clustering. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017.

Martin, D., Fowlkes, C., Tal, D., & Malik, J. A Database of Human Segmented Natural Images and its Application to Evaluating Segmentation Algorithms and Measuring Ecological Statistics. Proc. 8th Int'l Conf. Computer Vision, vol. 2, p. 416 – 423, July 2001.

License

This crate is licensed under either

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Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.