Coupled region-edge shape priors for simultaneous localization and figure-ground segmentation

  • Authors:

  • Cheng Chen;Guoliang Fan

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We propose a new algorithm for simultaneous localization and figure-ground segmentation where coupled region-edge shape priors are involved with two different but complementary roles. We resort to a segmentation-based hypothesis-and-test paradigm in this research, where the region prior is used to form a segmentation and the edge prior is used to evaluate the validity of the formed segmentation. Our fundamental assumption is that the optimal shape-constrained segmentation that maximizes the agreement with the edge prior occurs at the correctly hypothesized location. Essentially, the proposed algorithm addresses a mid-level vision issue that aims at producing a map image for part detection useful for high-level vision tasks. Our experiments demonstrated that this algorithm offers promising results in terms of both localization and segmentation.