Efficient closed-form solution to generalized boundary detection

  • Authors:
  • Marius Leordeanu;Rahul Sukthankar;Cristian Sminchisescu

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania;Google Research, USA,Carnegie Mellon University;Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Bonn, Germany, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Boundary detection is essential for a variety of computer vision tasks such as segmentation and recognition. We propose a unified formulation for boundary detection, with closed-form solution, which is applicable to the localization of different types of boundaries, such as intensity edges and occlusion boundaries from video and RGB-D cameras. Our algorithm simultaneously combines low- and mid-level image representations, in a single eigenvalue problem, and we solve over an infinite set of putative boundary orientations. Moreover, our method achieves state of the art results at a significantly lower computational cost than current methods. We also propose a novel method for soft-segmentation that can be used in conjunction with our boundary detection algorithm and improve its accuracy at a negligible extra computational cost.