Abstract:

The result of color image segmentation directly affects understanding the image. The watershed segmentation has over-segmentation phenomenon, and a pixel as the seed region grows slowly. Aiming at these two problems, the paper proposed a new color image segmentation method that is based on LUV color space model and combines watershed and region growing. The experiments show that the method features high effect and fast speed.

Key words: color image;image segmentation;watershed segmentation;region growing;LUV color space