Segmented Region based Feature Extraction for Image Classification

Reliability and accuracy is the key concern of an automated image classification process. However, the impact of background or surrounding area is very less in compared to object features, which create ambiguity while assigning the appropriate class label and reduce the classification accuracy. This paper presents a new model to address this issue which select the relevant features from the segmented images based on the inner and outer regions. The key idea of this model is that the texture features within the objects are more relevant than the outside area of the objects. The proposed model applying a segmentation method for automated segment the image. The segmented images are then subdivided into two parts (i.e. inner and outer). The 463 shape and texture features are extracted from the inner, outer parts of the segmented images and also from the whole image. Next, these extracted features are used to train the classifier using support vector machine (SVM). A database of 644 images that consisting of 8 classes is used to verify the efficacy of the proposed model. The result proves the efficacy of the proposed model which achieves classification accuracy up to 97.79 % from the inner part of the image. The classification accuracy of inner features is increased by 9.58% from surroundings features.