Scene Shape Priors for Superpixel Segmentation

Unsupervised over-segmentation of an image into superpixels is a common preprocessing step for image parsing algorithms. Superpixels are used as both regions of support for feature vectors and as a starting point for the final segmentation. In this paper we investigate incorporating a priori information into superpixel segmentations. We learn a probabilistic model that describes the spatial density of the object boundaries in the image.

Author: Alistair P. Moore
Author: Simon J.D. Prince
Author: Jonathan Warrell
Author: Umar Mohammed
Author: Graham Jones

Publication: Computer Vision, IEEE 12th International Conference 2009 | full text (PDF)

Year: 2009