Title
Semantic image segmentation using visible and near-infrared channels
Abstract
Recent progress in computational photography has shown that we can acquire physical information beyond visible (RGB) image representations. In particular, we can acquire near-infrared (NIR) cues with only slight modification to any standard digital camera. In this paper, we study whether this extra channel can improve semantic image segmentation. Based on a state-of-the-art segmentation framework and a novel manually segmented image database that contains 4-channel images (RGB+NIR), we study how to best incorporate the specific characteristics of the NIR response. We show that it leads to improved performances for 7 classes out of 10 in the proposed dataset and discuss the results with respect to the physical properties of the NIR response.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33868-7_46
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
state-of-the-art segmentation framework,near-infrared channel,4-channel image,physical property,physical information,semantic image segmentation,nir response,segmented image database,image representation,extra channel,computational photography
Conditional random field,Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Physical information,Computational photography,Segmentation-based object categorization,Digital camera,RGB color model,Artificial intelligence
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7584
0302-9743
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.54
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Neda Salamati1413.22
Diane Larlus286453.74
Gabriela Csurka397285.08
Sabine Süsstrunk44984207.02