""" ========================================= Segmenting the picture of Lena in regions ========================================= This example uses spectral clustering on a graph created from voxel-to-voxel difference on an image to break this image into multiple partly-homogenous regions. This procedure (spectral clustering on an image) is an efficient approximate solution for finding normalized graph cuts. """ print __doc__ # Author: Gael Varoquaux # License: BSD import numpy as np import scipy as sp import pylab as pl from scikits.learn.feature_extraction import image from scikits.learn.cluster import spectral_clustering lena = sp.lena() # Downsample the image by a factor of 4 lena = lena[::2, ::2] + lena[1::2, ::2] + lena[::2, 1::2] + lena[1::2, 1::2] lena = lena[::2, ::2] + lena[1::2, ::2] + lena[::2, 1::2] + lena[1::2, 1::2] # Convert the image into a graph with the value of the gradient on the # edges. graph = image.img_to_graph(lena) # Take a decreasing function of the gradient: an exponential # The smaller beta is, the more independant the segmentation is of the # actual image. For beta=1, the segmentation is close to a voronoi beta = 5 eps = 1e-6 graph.data = np.exp(-beta*graph.data/lena.std()) + eps # Apply spectral clustering (this step goes much faster if you have pyamg # installed) N_REGIONS = 11 labels = spectral_clustering(graph, k=N_REGIONS) labels = labels.reshape(lena.shape) ################################################################################ # Visualize the resulting regions pl.figure(figsize=(5, 5)) pl.imshow(lena, cmap=pl.cm.gray) for l in range(N_REGIONS): pl.contour(labels == l, contours=1, colors=[pl.cm.spectral(l/float(N_REGIONS)), ]) pl.xticks(()) pl.yticks(()) pl.show()