Measuring the quality evaluation for image segmentation

Abstract

This paper proposes a measure of quality for evaluating the performance of region-based segmentation methods. Degradation mechanisms are used to compare segmentation evaluation methods onto deteriorated ground-truth segmentation images. Experiments showed the significance of using degradation mechanisms to compare segmentation evaluation methods. Encouraging results were obtained for a selection of degradation effects. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.