Object detection and segmentation from joint embedding of parts and pixels

  • Authors:
  • Michael Maire;Stella X. Yu;Pietro Perona

  • Affiliations:
  • California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA 91125, USA;Boston College - Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA;California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a new framework in which image segmentation, figure/ground organization, and object detection all appear as the result of solving a single grouping problem. This framework serves as a perceptual organization stage that integrates information from low-level image cues with that of high-level part detectors. Pixels and parts each appear as nodes in a graph whose edges encode both affinity and ordering relationships. We derive a generalized eigen-problem from this graph and read off an interpretation of the image from the solution eigenvectors. Combining an off-the-shelf top-down part-based person detector with our low-level cues and grouping formulation, we demonstrate improvements to object detection and segmentation.