Integration of linguistic knowledge for colour image segmentation

The Hue, Chroma, Intensity (HCI) space is well suited to colour images segmentation processing. In this paper, we used fuzzy logic for integrating specific knowledge of the Hue component. Based upon several linguistic rules which built a symbolic cooperation between Hue and Intensity according to Chroma, a region growing segmentation with fuzzy aggregation is proposed. This fuzzy segmentation is compared with a technique using a Fuzzy C-Means algorithm in different colour spaces.