Image segmentation via foreground and background semantic descriptors

Ding Yuan; Jingjing Qiang; Jihao Yin

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.26.5.053004

9 September 2017 Image segmentation via foreground and background semantic descriptors

Ding Yuan, Jingjing Qiang, Jihao Yin

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 26, Issue 5, 053004 (September 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.26.5.053004

Abstract

In the field of image processing, it has been a challenging task to obtain a complete foreground that is not uniform in color or texture. Unlike other methods, which segment the image by only using low-level features, we present a segmentation framework, in which high-level visual features, such as semantic information, are used. First, the initial semantic labels were obtained by using the nonparametric method. Then, a subset of the training images, with a similar foreground to the input image, was selected. Consequently, the semantic labels could be further refined according to the subset. Finally, the input image was segmented by integrating the object affinity and refined semantic labels. State-of-the-art performance was achieved in experiments with the challenging MSRC 21 dataset.

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Ding Yuan, Jingjing Qiang, and Jihao Yin "Image segmentation via foreground and background semantic descriptors," Journal of Electronic Imaging 26(5), 053004 (9 September 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.26.5.053004

Received: 18 April 2017; Accepted: 9 August 2017; Published: 9 September 2017

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