BAYESIAN SCENE SEGMENTATION INCORPORATING MOTION CONSTRAINTS AND CATEGORY-SPECIFIC INFORMATION

Alexander Bachmann, Irina Lulcheva

2009

Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of detecting objects form a moving camera by jointly considering lowlevel image features and high-level object information. The proposed method partitions an image sequence into independently moving regions with similar 3-dimensional (3D) motion and distance to the observer. In the recognition stage category-specific information is integrated into the partitioning process. An object category is represented by a set of descriptors expressing the local appearance of salient object parts. To account for the geometric relationships among object parts a structural prior over part configurations is designed. This prior structure expresses the spatial dependencies of object parts observed in a training data set. To achieve global consistency in the recognition process, information about the scene is extracted from the entire image based on a set of global image features. These features are used to predict the scene context of the image from which characteristic spatial distributions and properties of an object category are derived. The scene context helps to resolve local ambiguities and achieves locally and globally consistent image segmentation. Our expectations on spatial continuity of objects are expressed in a Markov Random Field (MRF) model. Segmentation results are presented based on real image sequences.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bachmann A. and Lulcheva I. (2009). BAYESIAN SCENE SEGMENTATION INCORPORATING MOTION CONSTRAINTS AND CATEGORY-SPECIFIC INFORMATION . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 291-298. DOI: 10.5220/0001653302910298

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Alexander Bachmann and Irina Lulcheva},
title={BAYESIAN SCENE SEGMENTATION INCORPORATING MOTION CONSTRAINTS AND CATEGORY-SPECIFIC INFORMATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={291-298},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001653302910298},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - BAYESIAN SCENE SEGMENTATION INCORPORATING MOTION CONSTRAINTS AND CATEGORY-SPECIFIC INFORMATION
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Bachmann A.
AU - Lulcheva I.
PY - 2009
SP - 291
EP - 298
DO - 10.5220/0001653302910298