A Bayesian Approach to Video Object Segmentation via Merging 3D Watershed Volumes

  • Authors:
  • Yi-Ping Hung;Yu-Pao Tsai;Chih-Chuan Lai

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '02 Proceedings of the 16 th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a Bayesian approach to video object segmentation, which consists of two stages. In the first stage, we partition the video data into a set of 3D watershed volumes, where each watershed volume is a series of corresponding 2D image regions. These 2D image regions are obtained by applying to each image frame the marker-controlled watershed segmentation. In the second stage, we use a Markov random field to model the spatio-temporal relationship among the 3D watershed volume. Then, the desired video objects can be extracted by merging watershed volumes having similar motion characteristics within a Bayeysian framework. Our experiments have shown that the proposed method has great potential in extracting moving objects from a video sequence.