segmentation

I am working on object detection.I have implemented segmentation algorithm on my image.whether we can extract features from the segmented image?or tel me whether segmentation of the image is just for visual purpose..Please guide me...Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I would say yes. Image segmentation can be used to make quantitative measurements, not it's not limited to just visual purposes. See my BlobsDemo for an image segmentation tutorial/demo. http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=authorid%3A31862

Answer 2

[ak]

Ya u r right....there are many features can be extracted using matlab...such as Mean,Variance,Std Deviation,Mag and Direction vectors...According to that u can classify ur each blocks in image and its characteristics.....