Abstract
Given a collection of images which contains objects from the same category, the co-segmentation methods aim at simultaneously segmenting such common objects in each image. Most of existing co-segmentation approaches rely on comput-ing similarities inter-regions representing foregrounds in these images. However, region similarity measurement is challenging due to the large appearance variations among objects in the same category. In addition, for real-world images which have cluttered backgrounds, the existing co-segmentation approaches miss sufficient robustness to extract the common object from the background. In this paper, we propose a new co-segmentation method which takes advantage of the reliable segmentation of few selected images, in order to guide the segmentation of the remaining images in the collection. A random sample of images is first selected from the image collection. Then, the selected images are segmented using an interactive segmentation method. These segmentation results are used to construct positive/negative samples of the targeted common object and background regions respectively. Finally, these samples are propagated to the remain-ing images in the collection through computing both local and global consistency. The experiments on the iCoseg and MSRC datasets demonstrate the performance and robustness of the proposed method.
Highlights
Foreground segmentation is defined as the task of generating pixel level foreground masks for all the objects in a given image or video
The color histogram is used for segmentation propagation in ICoseg dataset
We propose a new method for image cosegmentation
Summary
Foreground segmentation is defined as the task of generating pixel level foreground masks for all the objects in a given image or video. Considering the limitations of individual image segmentation, in recent years, jointly segmenting multiple images containing a common object has become very popular in a way that the common patterns that exist in a set of similar images can serve as a mean of compensating for the lack of information about visual object foreground. This task of segmenting simultaneously multiple images which contain common or similar objects is known as image co-segmentation
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