Guaranteeing convergence of iterative skewed voting algorithms for image segmentation

DOI10.1016/J.ACHA.2012.03.008MaRDI QIDQ442530zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Doru C. Balcan, Gowri Srinivasa, Matthew Fickus, Jelena Kovačević

Publication date 1 August 2012

Published in Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2615

zbMATH Keywords

active maskscellular automataconvergenceimage segmentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Machine vision and scene understanding (68T45) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10)

Abstract: In this paper we provide rigorous proof for the convergence of an iterative voting-based image segmentation algorithm called Active Masks. Active Masks (AM) was proposed to solve the challenging task of delineating punctate patterns of cells from fluorescence microscope images. Each iteration of AM consists of a linear convolution composed with a nonlinear thresholding; what makes this process special in our case is the presence of additive terms whose role is to "skew" the voting when prior information is available. In real-world implementation, the AM algorithm always converges to a fixed point. We study the behavior of AM rigorously and present a proof of this convergence. The key idea is to formulate AM as a generalized (parallel) majority cellular automaton, adapting proof techniques from discrete dynamical systems.

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