Better Foreground Segmentation Through Graph Cuts

01/21/2004
by   Nicholas R. Howe, et al.
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For many tracking and surveillance applications, background subtraction provides an effective means of segmenting objects moving in front of a static background. Researchers have traditionally used combinations of morphological operations to remove the noise inherent in the background-subtracted result. Such techniques can effectively isolate foreground objects, but tend to lose fidelity around the borders of the segmentation, especially for noisy input. This paper explores the use of a minimum graph cut algorithm to segment the foreground, resulting in qualitatively and quantitiatively cleaner segmentations. Experiments on both artificial and real data show that the graph-based method reduces the error around segmented foreground objects. A MATLAB code implementation is available at http://www.cs.smith.edu/ nhowe/research/code/#fgseg

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