Color Image Processing Under Uncertainty

Most digital images have uncertainties associated with the intensity levels of pixels and/or edges. These uncertainties can be traced back to the acquisition chain, to uneven lighting conditions used during imaging or to the noisy environment. On the other hand, intuitionistic fuzzy hypergraphs are considered a useful mathematical tool for digital image processing since they can represent digital images as complex relationships between pixels and model uncertain or imprecise knowledge explicitly. This paper presents the approach for noisy color image segmentation and edge detection based on intuitionistic fuzzy hypergraphs. First, the RGB image is transformed to the HLS space resulting in three separated components. Then each component is intuitionistically fuzzified based on entropy measure from which an intuitionistic fuzzy hypergraph is generated automatically. The generated hypergraphs will be used for denoising, segmentation, and edges detection. The first experimentations showed that the proposed approach gave good results especially in the case of dynamic threshold.