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Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia

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GOMEZ-VILLA, Alexander; DIEZ-VALENCIA, Germán  and  SALAZAR-JIMENEZ, Augusto Enrique. A Markov random field image segmentation model for lizard spots. Rev.fac.ing.univ. Antioquia [online]. 2016, n.79, pp.41-49. ISSN 0120-6230.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.redin.n79a05.

Animal identification as a method for fauna study and conservation can be implemented using phenotypic appearance features such as spots, stripes or morphology. This procedure has the advantage that it does not harm study subjects. The visual identification of the subjects must be performed by a trained professional, who may need to inspect hundreds or thousands of images, a time-consuming task. In this work, several classical segmentation and preprocessing techniques, such as threshold, adaptive threshold, histogram equalization, and saturation correction are analyzed. Instead of the classical segmentation approach, herein we propose a Markov random field segmentation model for spots, which we test under ideal, standard and challenging acquisition conditions. As study subject, the Diploglossus millepunctatus lizard is used. The proposed method achieved a maximum efficiency of 84.87%.

Keywords : Belief propagation; Markov network; Graph Cuts; animal biometrics; Markov random field; Diploglossus millepunctatus.

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