""" ================================================= Felzenszwalb's efficient graph based segmentation ================================================= This fast 2d image segmentation algorithm, proposed in [1]_ is popular in the computer vision community. It is often used to extract "superpixels", small homogeneous image regions, which build the basis for further processing. The algorithm has a single ``scale`` parameter that influences the segment size. The actual size and number of segments can vary greatly, depending on local contrast. .. [1] Efficient graph-based image segmentation, Felzenszwalb, P.F. and Huttenlocher, D.P. International Journal of Computer Vision, 2004 """ print __doc__ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from skimage.data import lena from skimage.segmentation import felzenszwalb_segmentation from skimage.util import img_as_float img = img_as_float(lena()) segments = felzenszwalb_segmentation(img, scale=1) segments = np.unique(segments, return_inverse=True)[1].reshape(img.shape[:2]) print("number of segments: %d" % len(np.unique(segments))) fig, (ax_org, ax_sp, ax_mean) = plt.subplots(1, 3) ax_org.set_title("original") ax_org.imshow(img, interpolation='nearest') ax_org.axis("off") ax_sp.set_title("superpixels") ax_sp.imshow(segments, interpolation='nearest', cmap=plt.cm.prism) ax_sp.axis("off") colors = [np.bincount(segments.ravel(), img[:, :, c].ravel()) for c in xrange(img.shape[2])] counts = np.bincount(segments.ravel()) colors = np.vstack(colors) / counts ax_mean.set_title("mean color") ax_mean.imshow(colors.T[segments], interpolation='nearest') ax_mean.axis("off") fig.subplots_adjust(wspace=0.02, hspace=0.02, top=0.9, bottom=0.02, left=0.02, right=0.98) plt.show()