Graph cut segmentation with a global constraint: Recovering region distribution via a bound of the Bhattacharyya measure
Graph cut segmentation with a global constraint: Recovering region distribution via a bound of the Bhattacharyya measure
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具有全局约束的图割分割:通过 Bhattacharyya 测度的界限恢复区域分布
DOI:
10.1109/cvpr.2010.5540045
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2010
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S. Li
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作者:
Ismail Ben Ayed;Hua;K. Punithakumar;Ian G. Ross;S. Li
This study investigates an efficient algorithm for image segmentation with a global constraint based on the Bhattacharyya measure. The problem consists of finding a region consistent with an image distribution learned a priori. We derive an original upper bound of the Bhattacharyya measure by introducing an auxiliary labeling. From this upper bound, we reformulate the problem as an optimization of an auxiliary function by graph cuts. Then, we demonstrate that the proposed procedure converges and give a statistical interpretation of the upper bound. The algorithm requires very few iterations to converge, and finds nearly global optima. Quantitative evaluations and comparisons with state-of-the-art methods on the Microsoft GrabCut segmentation database demonstrated that the proposed algorithm brings improvements in regard to segmentation accuracy, computational efficiency, and optimality. We further demonstrate the flexibility of the algorithm in object tracking.