Stella X. Yu : Publications

Understanding Popout through Repulsion
Stella X. Yu and Jianbo Shi
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Kauai Marriott, Hawaii, USA, 9-15 Dec 2001
Paper (w/ correction) | Slides

Abstract
We consider the problem of segmenting an image into foreground and background, with foreground containing solely objects of interest known a priori. We propose an integration model that incorporates both edge detection and object part detection results. It consists of two parallel processes: low-level pixel grouping and high-level patch grouping. We seek a solution that optimizes a joint grouping criterion in a reduced space enforced by grouping correspondence between pixels and patches. Using spectral graph partitioning, we show that a near global optimum can be found by solving a constrained eigenvalue problem. We report promising experimental results on a dataset of $15$ objects under clutter and occlusion.

Keywords
image segmentation, figure-ground, object recognition, graph partitioning, constrained optimization

Note
with correction of bounds for infinite regularization: Tab. 2 and Fig. 4
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