Occlusion-aware Method for Temporally Consistent Superpixels

A wide variety of computer vision applications rely on superpixel or supervoxel algorithms as a preprocessing step. This underlines the overall importance that these approaches have gained in recent years. However, most methods show a lack of temporal consistency or fail in producing temporally stab...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - (2018) vom: 03. Mai
1. Verfasser: Reso, Matthias (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Jachalsky, Jorn, Rosenhahn, Bodo, Ostermann, Joern
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:A wide variety of computer vision applications rely on superpixel or supervoxel algorithms as a preprocessing step. This underlines the overall importance that these approaches have gained in recent years. However, most methods show a lack of temporal consistency or fail in producing temporally stable superpixels. In this paper, we present an approach to generate temporally consistent superpixels for video content. Our method is formulated as a contour-evolving expectation-maximization framework, which utilizes an efficient label propagation scheme to encourage the preservation of superpixel shapes and their relative positioning over time. By explicitly detecting the occlusion of superpixels and the disocclusion of new image regions, our framework is able to terminate and create superpixels whose corresponding image region becomes hidden or newly appears. Additionally, the occluded parts of superpixels are incorporated in the further optimization. This increases the compliance of the superpixel flow with the optical flow present in the scene. Using established benchmark suites, we show the performance of our approach in comparison to state-of-the-art supervoxel and superpixel algorithms for video content
Beschreibung:Date Revised 27.02.2024
published: Print-Electronic
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ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2832628