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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2020
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani, New York, CA (US);
Neeraj J. Gadgil, Pune, IN;
Guan-Ming Su, Fremont, CA (US);
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for image segmentation includes (a) clustering, based upon k-means clustering, pixels of an image into first clusters, (b) outputting a cluster map of the first clusters (c) re-clustering the pixels into a new plurality of non-disjoint pixel-clusters, and (d) classifying the non-disjoint pixel-clusters in categories, according to a user-indicated classification. Another method for image segmentation includes (a) forming a graph with each node of the graph corresponding to a first respective non-disjoint pixel-cluster of the image and connected to each terminal of the graph and to all other nodes corresponding to other respective non-disjoint pixel-clusters that, in the image, are within a neighborhood of the first respective non-disjoint pixel-cluster, (b) setting weights of connections of the graph according to a user-indicated classification in categories respectively associated with the terminals, and (c) segmenting the image into the categories by cutting the graph based upon the weights.