Saliency-guided level set model for automatic object segmentation

Qing Cai

doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2019.04.019

Saliency-guided level set model for automatic object segmentation

2019-09-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.patcog.2019.04.019

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The level set model is a popular method for object segmentation. However, most existing level set models perform poorly in color images since they only use grayscale intensity information to defined their energy functions. To address this shortcoming, in this paper, we propose a new saliency-guided level set model (SLSM), which can automatically segment objects in color images guided by visual saliency. Specifically, we first define a global saliency-guided energy term to extract the color objects approximately. Then, by integrating information from different color channels, we define a novel local multichannel based energy term to extract the color objects in detail. In addition, unlike using a length regularization term in the conventional level set models, we achieve segmentation smoothness by incorporating our SLSM into a graph cuts formulation. More importantly, the proposed SLSM is automatically initialized by saliency detection. Finally, the evaluation on public benchmark databases and our collected database demonstrates that the new SLSM consistently outperforms many state-of-the-art level set models and saliency detecting methods in accuracy and robustness. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Keywords:

Level set model

Object segmentation

Visual saliency

Graph cuts

Automatic initialization

Saliency-guided level set model for automatic object segmentation

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