Abstract
Contour detection is an important and fundamental problem in computer vision which finds numerous applications. Despite significant progress has been made in the past decades, contour detection from natural images remains a challenging task due to the difficulty of clearly distinguishing between edges of objects and surrounding backgrounds. To address this problem, we first capture multi-scale features from pixel-level to segmentlevel using local and global information. These features are mapped to a space where discriminative information is captured by computing posterior divergence of Gaussian mixture models and then used to train a random forest classifier for contour detection. We evaluate the proposed algorithm against leading methods in the literature on the Berkeley segmentation and Weizmann horse data sets. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed contour detection algorithm performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods in terms of speed and accuracy.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 Jan 1 |
| Event | 2013 24th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2013 - Bristol, United Kingdom Duration: 2013 Sep 9 → 2013 Sep 13 |
Conference
| Conference | 2013 24th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2013 |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| City | Bristol |
| Period | 13/9/9 → 13/9/13 |
Fingerprint
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cite this
}
Discriminative generative contour detection. / Zhang, Chao; Li, Xiong; Ruan, Xiang; Zhao, Yuming; Yang, Ming Hsuan.
2013. Paper presented at 2013 24th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2013, Bristol, United Kingdom.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
TY - CONF
T1 - Discriminative generative contour detection
AU - Zhang, Chao
AU - Li, Xiong
AU - Ruan, Xiang
AU - Zhao, Yuming
AU - Yang, Ming Hsuan
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Contour detection is an important and fundamental problem in computer vision which finds numerous applications. Despite significant progress has been made in the past decades, contour detection from natural images remains a challenging task due to the difficulty of clearly distinguishing between edges of objects and surrounding backgrounds. To address this problem, we first capture multi-scale features from pixel-level to segmentlevel using local and global information. These features are mapped to a space where discriminative information is captured by computing posterior divergence of Gaussian mixture models and then used to train a random forest classifier for contour detection. We evaluate the proposed algorithm against leading methods in the literature on the Berkeley segmentation and Weizmann horse data sets. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed contour detection algorithm performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods in terms of speed and accuracy.
AB - Contour detection is an important and fundamental problem in computer vision which finds numerous applications. Despite significant progress has been made in the past decades, contour detection from natural images remains a challenging task due to the difficulty of clearly distinguishing between edges of objects and surrounding backgrounds. To address this problem, we first capture multi-scale features from pixel-level to segmentlevel using local and global information. These features are mapped to a space where discriminative information is captured by computing posterior divergence of Gaussian mixture models and then used to train a random forest classifier for contour detection. We evaluate the proposed algorithm against leading methods in the literature on the Berkeley segmentation and Weizmann horse data sets. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed contour detection algorithm performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods in terms of speed and accuracy.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84898422772&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84898422772&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5244/C.27.74
DO - 10.5244/C.27.74
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84898422772
ER -