Texture measures for improved watershed segmentation of froth images

Abstract

Luc Vincent’s fast watershed algorithm has been successfully applied to determine the bubble size distribution in an image of froth when the bubbles are all of similar size [1]. This technique fails to work successfully when the image contains both tiny and large bubbles. A new technique is proposed which combines the use of a texture measure, the output of an initial watershed and a further watershed stage to successfully segment both tiny and large bubbles.