Depth assisted object segmentation in multi-view video


Cigla C., Alatan A. A.

3DTV Conference - True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, İstanbul, Turkey, 28 - 30 May 2008, pp.165-168 identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/3dtv.2008.4547839
  • City: İstanbul
  • Country: Turkey
  • Page Numbers: pp.165-168
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

In this work, a novel and unified approach for multi-view video (MVV) object segmentation is presented. In the first stage, a region-based graph-theoretic color segmentation algorithm is proposed, in which the popular Normalized Cuts segmentation method is improved with some modifications on its graph structure. Segmentation is obtained by recursive bi-partitioning of a weighted graph of an initial over-segmentation mask. The available segmentation mask is also utilized during dense depth map estimation step, based on a novel modified plane- and angle-sweeping strategy for each of these regions. Dense depth estimation is achieved by region-wise planarity assumption for the whole scene, in which depth models are estimated for sub-regions. Finally, the multi-view image segmentation algorithm is extended to object segmentation in MVV by the additional optical flow information. The required motion field is obtained via region-based matching that has consistent parameterization with color segmentation and dense depth map estimation algorithms. Experimental results indicate that proposed approach segments semantically meaningful objects in MVV with high precision.