NONRIGID OBJECT SEGMENTATION AND OCCLUSION DETECTION IN IMAGE SEQUENCES

Ketut Fundana, Niels Chr. Overgaard, Anders Heyden, David Gustavsson, Mads Nielsen

2008

Abstract

We address the problem of nonrigid object segmentation in image sequences in the presence of occlusions. The proposed variational segmentation method is based on a region-based active contour of the Chan-Vese model augmented with a frame-to-frame interaction term as a shape prior. The interaction term is constructed to be pose-invariant by minimizing over a group of transformations and to allow moderate deformation in the shape of the contour. The segmentation method is then coupled with a novel variational contour matching formulation between two consecutive contours which gives a mapping of the intensities from the interior of the previous contour to the next. With this information occlusions can be detected and located using deviations from predicted intensities and the missing intensities in the occluded regions can be reconstructed. After reconstructing the occluded regions in the novel image, the segmentation can then be improved. Experimental results on synthetic and real image sequences are shown.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fundana K., Chr. Overgaard N., Heyden A., Gustavsson D. and Nielsen M. (2008). NONRIGID OBJECT SEGMENTATION AND OCCLUSION DETECTION IN IMAGE SEQUENCES . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 211-218. DOI: 10.5220/0001076102110218

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp08,
author={Ketut Fundana and Niels Chr. Overgaard and Anders Heyden and David Gustavsson and Mads Nielsen},
title={NONRIGID OBJECT SEGMENTATION AND OCCLUSION DETECTION IN IMAGE SEQUENCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={211-218},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001076102110218},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - NONRIGID OBJECT SEGMENTATION AND OCCLUSION DETECTION IN IMAGE SEQUENCES
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Fundana K.
AU - Chr. Overgaard N.
AU - Heyden A.
AU - Gustavsson D.
AU - Nielsen M.
PY - 2008
SP - 211
EP - 218
DO - 10.5220/0001076102110218