Title
Combination of region and contour models for interactive image segmentation
Abstract
Previous image segmentation methods are mainly based on region or contours. The former category of models are computationally expensive, while the latter approaches require lots of user interactions. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive image segmentation method, which makes a combination of the two models. By adopting the advantage of respective models, our method can produce high quality segmentations with little user interaction and achieve a surprisingly high efficiency. Specifically, we first obtain a coarse segmentation on a reduced scale using the classical graph cut method. Then we refine the boundary region on finer scales using active contours based method iteratively. The experimental results show that our method can produce better segmentation results to state-of-the-art while greatly reducing user interactions and processing time. We believe the proposed method could greatly improve user experiences in real applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2808492.2808547
ICIMCS
Field
DocType
Citations 
Cut,Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Scale space,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image segmentation,Region growing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ling Ge101.35
Ran Ju21087.87
Gangshan Wu327536.63