Color Blob Segmentation by MSER Analysis

@article{Donoser2006ColorBS,
  title={Color Blob Segmentation by MSER Analysis},
  author={Michael Donoser and Horst Bischof and Mario Wiltsche},
  journal={2006 International Conference on Image Processing},
  year={2006},
  pages={757-760}
}
This paper presents an efficient color blob segmentation concept, which combines an ordering relationship based on analyzing Bhattacharyya distances with a modified version of the maximally stable extremal region (MSER) detector. After definition of the region-of-interest by a one-time user input, connected regions are detected within the input image with low computational effort. Single image and video sequence analysis results are presented, which prove the applicability of the concept… 
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