Fast Integral MeanShift : Application to Color Segmentation of Document Images
Résumé
Global MeanShift algorithm is an unsupervised
clustering technique already applied for color document image
segmentation. Nevertheless, its important computational cost limits
its application for document images. The complexity of the global
approach is explained by the intensive search of colors samples in
the Parzen window to compute the vector oriented toward the
mean. For making it more flexible, several attempts have tried to
decrease the algorithm complexity mainly by adding spatial
information or by reducing the number of colors to shift or even by
selecting a reduced number of colors to estimate the means of
density function.
This paper presents a fast optimized MeanShift with a much
reduced computational cost. This algorithm uses both the
discretisation of the shift and the integral image which allow the
computation of means into the Parzen windows with a reduced and
fixed number of operations. With the discretisation of the color
space, the fast optimised MeanShift also memorizes all existing
paths to avoid shifting again colors along similar path. Despite the
square shape of the Parzen windows and the uniform kernel used,
the results are very similar to those obtained by the global
MeanShift algorithm. The proposed algorithm is compared to the
different existing implementation of similar algorithms found in the
literature.