Object segmentation by long term analysis of point trajectories

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Brox;Jitendra Malik

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California at Berkeley and Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany;University of California at Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part V
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Unsupervised learning requires a grouping step that defines which data belong together. A natural way of grouping in images is the segmentation of objects or parts of objects. While pure bottom-up segmentation from static cues is well known to be ambiguous at the object level, the story changes as soon as objects move. In this paper, we present a method that uses long term point trajectories based on dense optical flow. Defining pair-wise distances between these trajectories allows to cluster them, which results in temporally consistent segmentations of moving objects in a video shot. In contrast to multi-body factorization, points and even whole objects may appear or disappear during the shot. We provide a benchmark dataset and an evaluation method for this so far uncovered setting.