The multilevel fuzzy entropy has been adopted as a segmentation method for the human target infrared image. However
it has some problems that the partition number needs to be designated manually
and the global partition manner result in the accuracy of entropy measurement being influenced by background interference and the precision of segmentation being reduced. To address these problems
an unsupervised hierarchical segmentation based on fuzzy correlation strategy was proposed. To ensure the region homogeneity and improve efficiency
the entropy rate method was adoped to segment image into a group of superpixels. Then
the 2-partition segmentation operator through fuzzy correlation was built for improving precision of single step
since the fuzzy correlation can measure the appropriate partition well. The core idea of 2-partition segmentation operator was to utilize an iterative scheme to improve computational efficiency in fuzzy correlation evaluation. Then the probabilities of fuzzy events obtained by maximizing fuzzy correlation were used to define the data terms of graph cut. Finally
the 2-partition segmentation operator was combined with top-down hierarchical segmentation structure. By segmenting the superpixels of object regions by 2-partition segmentation operator iteratively
the partition number could be assigned and human target was achieved in this adaptive approach. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method can not only decide the partition number automatically
but can also improve the accuracy by 18% comparing with that of the existing methods and the running time is about 3.8 s. It can be used in engineering practice of human target infrared image segmentation.
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