PatchCut: Data-driven object segmentation via local shape transfer

Jimei Yang, Brian Price, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Ming Hsuan Yang

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Abstract

Object segmentation is highly desirable for image understanding and editing. Current interactive tools require a great deal of user effort while automatic methods are usually limited to images of special object categories or with high color contrast. In this paper, we propose a data-driven algorithm that uses examples to break through these limits. As similar objects tend to share similar local shapes, we match query image patches with example images in multiscale to enable local shape transfer. The transferred local shape masks constitute a patch-level segmentation solution space and we thus develop a novel cascade algorithm, PatchCut, for coarse-to-fine object segmentation. In each stage of the cascade, local shape mask candidates are selected to refine the estimated segmentation of the previous stage iteratively with color models. Experimental results on various datasets (Weizmann Horse, Fashionista, Object Discovery and PASCAL) demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1770-1778
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781467369640
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015 Oct 14
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015 - Boston, United States
Duration: 2015 Jun 72015 Jun 12

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Volume07-12-June-2015
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Other

OtherIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period15/6/715/6/12

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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