Improved simple linear iterative clustering superpixels

Abstract

The superpixels are small regions in an image which do not contain edges inside. Among all the superpixel algorithms, the simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) method is widely adopted due to its practicality. However, the resultant superpixels sometimes do not well adhere to the edges. In this paper, we present an improved SLIC superpixel method to solve this problem. Experiments show that the proposed method produces superpixels whose boundaries better adhere to the image edges without significantly increasing the processing time compared with the conventional method.