Applications of Computer graphics, especially digital photographs and other complex color images,can produce very large file sizes. Problems of storage space and the necessity to fast transmit image data across networks and over the Internet, have th

Applications of Computer graphics, especially digital photographs and other complex color images,can produce very large file sizes. Problems of storage space and the necessity to fast transmit image data across networks and over the Internet, have th

we present a segmentation algorithm for color images that uses the watershed algorithm to segment either the twodimensional (2-D) or the three-dimensional (3-D) color histogram of an image.