Shape Matching by Segmentation Averaging

Abstract

We use segmentations to match images by shape. To address the unreliability of segmentations, we give a closed form approximation to an average over all segmentations. Our technique has many extensions, yielding new algorithms for tracking, object detection, segmentation, and edge-preserving smoothing. For segmentation, instead of a maximum a posteriori approach, we compute the “central” segmentation minimizing the average distance to all segmentations of an image. Our methods for segmentation and object detection perform competitively, and we also show promising results in tracking and edge–preserving smoothing.

Cite

Text

Wang and Oliensis. "Shape Matching by Segmentation Averaging." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88682-2_43

Markdown

[Wang and Oliensis. "Shape Matching by Segmentation Averaging." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2008/wang2008eccv-shape/) doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88682-2_43

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wang2008eccv-shape,
  title     = {{Shape Matching by Segmentation Averaging}},
  author    = {Wang, Hongzhi and Oliensis, John},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {2008},
  pages     = {562-575},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-540-88682-2_43},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2008/wang2008eccv-shape/}
}