Abstract
Image segmentation and its performance evaluation are very difficult but important problems in computer vision. A major challenge in segmentation evaluation comes from the fundamental conflict between generality and objectivity: For general-purpose segmentation, the ground truth and segmentation accuracy may not be well defined, while embedding the evaluation in a specific application, the evaluation results may not be extended to other applications. We present in this paper a new benchmark for evaluating image segmentation. Specifically, we formulate image segmentation as identifying the single most perceptually salient structure from an image. We collect a large variety of test images that conforms to this specific formulation, construct unambiguous ground truth for each image, and define a reliable way to measure the segmentation accuracy. We then present two special strategies to further address two important issues: (a) the most salient structures in some real images may not be unique or unambiguously defined, and (b) many available image-segmentation methods are not developed to directly extract a single salient structure. Finally, we apply this benchmark to evaluate and compare the performance of several state-of-the-art image-segmentation methods, including the normalized-cut method, the level-set method, the efficient graph-based method, the mean-shift method, and the ratio-contour method.
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