Foreground and shadow segmentation based on a homography-correspondence pair

  • Authors:
  • Haruyuki Iwama;Yasushi Makihara;Yasushi Yagi

  • Affiliations:
  • Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan;Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan;Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ACCV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A static binocular camera system is widely used in many computer vision applications; and being able to segment foreground, shadow, and background is an important problem for them. In this paper, we propose a homography-correspondence pair-based segmentation framework. Existing segmentation approaches, based on homography constraints, often suffer from occlusion problems. In our approach, we treat a homography-correspondence pair symmetrically, to explicitly take the occlusion relationship into account, and we regard the segmentation problem as a multi-labeling problem for the homography-correspondence pair. We then formulate an energy function for this problem and get the pair-wise segmentation results by minimizing them via an α-β swap algorithm. Experimental results show that accurate segmentation is obtained in the presence of the occlusion region in each side image.