Title
Multiple view object cosegmentation using appearance and stereo cues
Abstract
We present an automatic approach to segment an object in calibrated images acquired from multiple viewpoints. Our system starts with a new piecewise planar layer-based stereo algorithm that estimates a dense depth map that consists of a set of 3D planar surfaces. The algorithm is formulated using an energy minimization framework that combines stereo and appearance cues, where for each surface, an appearance model is learnt using an unsupervised approach. By treating the planar surfaces as structural elements of the scene and reasoning about their visibility in multiple views, we segment the object in each image independently. Finally, these segmentations are refined by probabilistically fusing information across multiple views. We demonstrate that our approach can segment challenging objects with complex shapes and topologies, which may have thin structures and non-Lambertian surfaces. It can also handle scenarios where the object and background color distributions overlap significantly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33715-4_57
ECCV (5)
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple view,stereo algorithm,background color distribution,appearance cue,new piecewise planar,planar surface,multiple viewpoint,appearance model,multiple view object cosegmentation,stereo cue,unsupervised approach,automatic approach,energy minimization,depth map
Computer vision,Visibility,Computer science,Active appearance model,Network topology,Planar,Artificial intelligence,Depth map,Piecewise,Energy minimization
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7576
0302-9743
31
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.09
33
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adarsh Kowdle158424.77
Sudipta N. Sinha296948.49
Richard Szeliski3213002104.74