The Design and Implementation of SLIC Superpixel Algorithm

Abstract

The concept of superpixel firstly appeared in the research of image segmentation, Superpixel algorithms are designed to segment an image into a series of blocks, all these blocks are comprised of a number of pixels. By composing a superpixel network instead of making a pixel network, we can deal with every superpixel as a separate entity. By this means, we reduce the time complexity of the original algorithms which deal with pixels one by one. And always we could get better results via improved algorithms aimed at superpixels. The essence of superpixel segmentation is an abstraction of basic information in an image. One of the best superxiel segmentation algorithm is SLIC algorithm, we will introduce it and implement it by C programming language.