Spatio-Temporal Semantic Object Segmentation using Probabilistic Sub-Object Regions
D. Thirde, G.A. Jones, J. Flack · 2003
The MPEG-4 standard generated a need for the extraction of Video Object Planes for usage in video retrieval and description. Two later standards MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 further the need for systems requiring minimal user interaction for the accurate extraction of semantic video objects. Many previous approaches have either relied too heavily on user interaction or made compromises in end accuracy to achieve a faster segmentation process. With the advancement of computer processing power we propose a higher quality segmentation process with end application requiring a hardware implementation. The focus of our approach is to achieve a reliable and high quality segmentation mask per frame using sophisticated offline techniques to minimise the user interaction within the process. 1