Find the intersection of two segmentationsΒΆ

When segmenting an image, you may want to combine multiple alternative segmentations. The skimage.segmentation.join_segmentations function computes the join of two segmentations, in which a pixel is placed in the same segment if and only if it is in the same segment in _both_ segmentations.

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import numpy as np
from scipy import ndimage as ndi
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from skimage.filters import sobel
from skimage.segmentation import slic, join_segmentations
from skimage.morphology import watershed
from skimage.color import label2rgb
from skimage import data, img_as_float

coins = img_as_float(data.coins())

# make segmentation using edge-detection and watershed
edges = sobel(coins)
markers = np.zeros_like(coins)
foreground, background = 1, 2
markers[coins < 30.0 / 255] = background
markers[coins > 150.0 / 255] = foreground

ws = watershed(edges, markers)
seg1 = ndi.label(ws == foreground)[0]

# make segmentation using SLIC superpixels
seg2 = slic(coins, n_segments=117, max_iter=160, sigma=1, compactness=0.75,
            multichannel=False)

# combine the two
segj = join_segmentations(seg1, seg2)

# show the segmentations
fig, axes = plt.subplots(ncols=4, figsize=(9, 2.5), sharex=True, sharey=True,
                         subplot_kw={'adjustable': 'box-forced'})
axes[0].imshow(coins, cmap=plt.cm.gray, interpolation='nearest')
axes[0].set_title('Image')

color1 = label2rgb(seg1, image=coins, bg_label=0)
axes[1].imshow(color1, interpolation='nearest')
axes[1].set_title('Sobel+Watershed')

color2 = label2rgb(seg2, image=coins, image_alpha=0.5)
axes[2].imshow(color2, interpolation='nearest')
axes[2].set_title('SLIC superpixels')

color3 = label2rgb(segj, image=coins, image_alpha=0.5)
axes[3].imshow(color3, interpolation='nearest')
axes[3].set_title('Join')

for ax in axes:
    ax.axis('off')
fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Python source code: download (generated using skimage 0.12.3)

IPython Notebook: download (generated using skimage 0.12.3)