Improving semantic texton forests with a markov random field for image segmentation

http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/29660

Semantic image segmentation is a major and challenging problem in computer vision, which has been widely researched over decades. 


Recent approaches attempt to exploit contextual information at different levels to improve the segmentation results.
 In this paper, we propose a new approach for combining semantic texton forests (STFs) and Markov random fields (MRFs) for improving segmentation. 
STFs allow fast computing of texton codebooks for powerful low-level image feature description. 
MRFs, with the most effective algorithm in message passing for training, will smooth out the segmentation results of STFs using pairwise coherent information between neighboring pixels. 
We evaluate the performance of the proposed method on two wellknown benchmark datasets including the 21-class MSRC dataset and the VOC 2007 dataset. 
The experimental results show that our method impressively improved the segmentation results of STFs. Especially, our method successfully recognizes many challenging image regions that STFs failed to do

Title: Improving semantic texton forests with a markov random field for image segmentation
Authors: Sang, Dinh Viet
Loi, Mai Dinh
Quang, Nguyen Tien
Binh, Huynh Thi Thanh
Thuy, Nguyen Thi
Keywords: Energy minimization
Markov random field
Markov random field
Semantic image segmentation
Semantic image segmentation
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Citation: Scopus
Abstract: Semantic image segmentation is a major and challenging problem in computer vision, which has been widely researched over decades. Recent approaches attempt to exploit contextual information at different levels to improve the segmentation results. In this paper, we propose a new approach for combining semantic texton forests (STFs) and Markov random fields (MRFs) for improving segmentation. STFs allow fast computing of texton codebooks for powerful low-level image feature description. MRFs, with the most effective algorithm in message passing for training, will smooth out the segmentation results of STFs using pairwise coherent information between neighboring pixels. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method on two wellknown benchmark datasets including the 21-class MSRC dataset and the VOC 2007 dataset. The experimental results show that our method impressively improved the segmentation results of STFs. Especially, our method successfully recognizes many challenging image regions that STFs failed to do
Description: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Volume 04-05-December-2014, 4 December 2014, Pages 162-170
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
URI: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/29660
ISSN: 978-145032930-9
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