A novel active contour model based on median absolute deviation for remote sensing river image segmentation

Abstract

Aiming at the problem of the inaccurate segmentation of remote sensing river images by existing active contour models (ACMs), a novel ACM based on median absolute deviation for remote sensing river image segmentation is presented. Firstly, the external energy constraint terms of the presented model are defined by the median absolute deviation instead of the within-cluster variance in the Chan–Vese (CV) model. Secondly, in order to accelerate the evolution of the model, the fusion information of within-cluster variances and median absolute deviations of pixel grayscale values inside the object and background regions is utilized as the region energy weights. The corresponding experiments are carried out on a large number of remote sensing river images and the results illustrate that the presented model outperforms the existing ACMs, which can segment the remote sensing river images much more accurately and efficiently.