Image segmentation has often been defined as the problem of localizing regions of an image relative to content (e.g., image homogeneity). However, recent image segmentation approaches have provided interactive methods that implicitly define the segmentation problem relative to a particular task of content localization.
The random walker algorithm determines the segmentation of an image from a set of markers labeling several phases (2 or more). An anisotropic diffusion equation is solved with tracers initiated at the markers’ position. The local diffusivity coefficient is greater if neighboring pixels have similar values, so that diffusion is difficult across high gradients. The label of each unknown pixel is attributed to the label of the known marker that has the highest probability to be reached first during this diffusion process. In this example, two phases are clearly visible, but the data are too noisy to perform the segmentation from the histogram only. We determine markers of the two phases from the extreme tails of the histogram of gray values, and use the random walker for the segmentation.
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Random Walks for Image Segmentation by Leo Grady
a) http://vision.cse.psu.edu/people/chenpingY/paper/grady2006random.pdf
b) http://vision.cse.psu.edu/people/chenpingY/paper/grady2006random.pdf
c) https://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/auto_examples/segmentation/plot_random_walker_segmentation.html
EM509 Stochastic Processes Project : Random Walks for image segmentation: First random walks are introduced in the order of 1D (without barriers and with barriers), 2D (without barriers and with barriers). Then Markov property is explained. The Markov property is proved for the 1D simple case and a complicated 2D case with both absorbing and reflecting barriers. Image segmentation problem is introduced from an application point of view and converted into a mathematical formulation. Random walker algorithm for image segmentation is introduced and it is proven to be a Markov process. The study is concluded by implementing the Random Walker algorithm and testing it by segmenting a set of images.
source:
1) https://github.com/gihanjayatilaka/EM509-image-segmentation-using-random-walks
2) 24 - Random Walker segmentation in Python - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P8YhJa2V6o
Generating a random walker for image segmentation involves defining a graph where each pixel in the image is represented by a node, and the edges between nodes represent the similarity between the corresponding pixels. The random walker algorithm then uses this graph to segment the image by assigning labels to each pixel based on the connectivity of the graph.
There are several open-source tools available for implementing the random walker algorithm for image segmentation, including:
To use these tools for simulating real-world scenarios, you would need to provide appropriate input data in the form of images or other types of data that can be processed by the algorithm. You may also need to modify the algorithm parameters to achieve the desired results for your specific application.
Here is an example Python code using scikit-image to perform image segmentation using the random walker algorithm:
pythonCopy codeimport numpy as np import skimage.segmentation as seg from skimage import data # Load image image = data.coins() # Create markers for foreground and background markers = np.zeros_like(image) markers[image < 30] = 1 markers[image > 150] = 2 # Apply random walker algorithm labels = seg.random_walker(image, markers) # Display results import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(8, 3), sharex=True, sharey=True) ax1.imshow(image, cmap='gray') ax1.axis('off') ax1.set_title('Image') ax2.imshow(labels, cmap='gray') ax2.axis('off') ax2.set_title('Segmentation') plt.show()
This code uses the coins image from the scikit-image library and applies the random walker algorithm to segment the image into foreground and background. The resulting segmentation is displayed using matplotlib. You can modify this code to use your own input data and adjust the algorithm parameters to suit your needs.
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