Hierarchical Blurring Mean-Shift

In recent years, various Mean-Shift methods were used for filtration and segmentation of images and other datasets. These methods achieve good segmentation results, but the computational speed is sometimes very low, especially for big images and some specific settings. In this paper, we propose an improved segmentation method that we call Hierarchical Blurring Mean-Shift. The method achieve significant reduction of computation time and minimal influence on segmentation quality. A comparison of our method with traditional Blurring Mean-Shift and Hierarchical Mean-Shift with respect to the quality of segmentation and computational time is demonstrated. Furthermore, we study the influence of parameter settings in various hierarchy depths on computational time and number of segments. Finally, the results promising reliable and fast image segmentation are presented.