.. note::
    :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

    Click :ref:`here <sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_segmentation_plot_ncut.py>` to download the full example code
.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_segmentation_plot_ncut.py:


==============
Normalized Cut
==============

This example constructs a Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) and recursively performs
a Normalized Cut on it [1]_.

References
----------
.. [1] Shi, J.; Malik, J., "Normalized cuts and image segmentation",
       Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
       IEEE Transactions on, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 888-905, August 2000.




.. image:: /auto_examples/segmentation/images/sphx_glr_plot_ncut_001.png
    :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: python


    from skimage import data, segmentation, color
    from skimage.future import graph
    from matplotlib import pyplot as plt


    img = data.coffee()

    labels1 = segmentation.slic(img, compactness=30, n_segments=400)
    out1 = color.label2rgb(labels1, img, kind='avg')

    g = graph.rag_mean_color(img, labels1, mode='similarity')
    labels2 = graph.cut_normalized(labels1, g)
    out2 = color.label2rgb(labels2, img, kind='avg')

    fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=2, sharex=True, sharey=True, figsize=(6, 8))

    ax[0].imshow(out1)
    ax[1].imshow(out2)

    for a in ax:
        a.axis('off')

    plt.tight_layout()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  9.486 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_segmentation_plot_ncut.py:


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 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer
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  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Python source code: plot_ncut.py <plot_ncut.py>`



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     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: plot_ncut.ipynb <plot_ncut.ipynb>`


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