Top down image segmentation using congealing and graph-cut
Douglas Moore, John Stevens, Scott Lundberg, Bruce A. Draper · Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 2008
This paper develops a weakly supervised algorithm that learns to segment rigid multi-colored objects from a set of training images and key points. The approach uses congealing to learn a probabilistic spatial model of the multi-colored object class and graph-cut to separate the foreground from the background. The result is a novel approach which can segment heterogeneous objects, in contrast to other recent approaches which are better at segmenting uniform but possibly flexible objects.