Adaptive region-weighted clustering with Jenks algorithm for underwater object segmentation
摘要
Underwater foreground object segmentation is crucial for marine exploration. This paper proposes an unsupervised segmentation method for unlabeled underwater images based on visual saliency. By integrating a self-supervised vision transformer with the Jenks natural breaks algorithm (JNBA), we introduce an adaptive region-weighted (ARW) clustering framework to address uneven foreground distributions. Our method achieves significant improvements in segmentation accuracy, with IoU enhancements of 9.9%, 5.7%, and 10.8% on the UFO-120 dataset compared to methods without ARW. Furthermore, our approach demonstrates superior performance on the SUIM, USOD10K, and UFO-120 datasets, outperforming state-of-the-art methods by 6.3%, 0.6%, and 1.7%, respectively. The source code for our method is publicly available at: https://github.com/LLL-YUE/ARW-JNBA.