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An Increased Modularity based Contour Detection

by Sonam Verma, Achint Chugh
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 135 - Number 12
Year of Publication: 2016
Authors: Sonam Verma, Achint Chugh
10.5120/ijca2016908588

Sonam Verma, Achint Chugh . An Increased Modularity based Contour Detection. International Journal of Computer Applications. 135, 12 ( February 2016), 41-44. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016908588

@article{ 10.5120/ijca2016908588,
author = { Sonam Verma, Achint Chugh },
title = { An Increased Modularity based Contour Detection },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { February 2016 },
volume = { 135 },
number = { 12 },
month = { February },
year = { 2016 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 41-44 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume135/number12/24104-2016908588/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2016908588 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Sonam Verma
%A Achint Chugh
%T An Increased Modularity based Contour Detection
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 135
%N 12
%P 41-44
%D 2016
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

This paper proposes an increased modularity created contour detection algorithm. Given an over segmented image that entails of many small regions, our algorithm automatically combines those neighboring regions that produce the largest increase in modularity index. When the modularity of the segmented image is increased, the method stops merging and produces the final segmented image. To preserve the repetitive patterns in a homogeneous region, we propose a feature on the basis of the histogram of states of image gradients and use it together with the color feature to characterize the similarity of two regions. By building the similarity matrix in an adaptive manner, the over segmentation problem can be successfully avoided.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Clustering community detection image Contouring modularity contourdetection