random walker segmentation / blob detection

[Emmanuelle Gouillart]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 03:39:15AM -0800, St�fan van der Walt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Michael Aye <kmichael.aye at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can k-means clustering maybe indicate to me how well a clustering worked,
> > something like a score? I basically have 3 phases in the images: dark blobs,
> > grayish background, and bright ice patches. Maybe clustering could indicate
> > by scores if a 2 or 3 phase clustering represents the image better?

> Here's an implementation of ICM-based clustering:

> http://stackoverflow.com/a/9174197/214686

> I wonder if we should include this in the scikit--Emmanuelle, do
> people actually still use ICM segmentation?

I have to say that I don't know ICM segmentation. It looks very
interesting (your code is impressively short!), would you have any
reference to suggest for me to read about this algorithm?

Thx,
Emmanuelle