Psychovisual evaluation of an image segmentation result

Even if lots of image segmentation methods have been proposed in the literature, the image segmentation step is still an unsolved problem. Different authors tried to formalize what a good segmentation procedure is. The most commonly accepted definitions are presented in the first part of this article. We then focus on a visualization method for facilitating the visual comparison of different segmentation results. Next, this technique is applied in a psychovisual evaluation of segmentation results involving many experts in image processing. Last, we used this study in order to compare different supervised evaluation criteria.