Image Comparison Based On Local Pixel Clustering

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Technometrics

Abstract

Image comparison is a fundamental step for monitoring images and has wide applications in many disciplines of sciences, including satellite imaging, medical research, quality control and so forth. This problem, however, is complicated because (i) the observed images often contain noise, (ii) the image intensity functions are discontinuous and have spatial structures. In the literature, a vast majority of the methods are intensity-based. However, such an approach is often questionable in real life situations where small changes in the background may not indicate an actual meaningful change in the images as long as the boundaries of the image objects remain the same. In this article, we propose a flexible and effective image comparison method based on local pixel clustering and construct a test statistic based on the Variation of Information metric. This is a feature based image comparison technique where edges or the jump points are considered as the primary features. Numerical examples and statistical properties show that the proposed image comparison method performs well in various real life scenarios.

First Page

495

Last Page

506

DOI

10.1080/00401706.2024.2322670

Publication Date

1-1-2024

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