ICSL MPEG-4 Project

QuickSeg

Motivation Minimize user interaction Enable the detection of highly-curved contours Algorithm Connect control points using edge energy and a distance penalty (based on graph search techniques) View Video (3.6 MB MPEG-1) Original Image Geodesic Contours Fails for high curvature (cuts off goose’s neck) Cohen & Kimmel   Snakes Large number of control points Kass et al. QuickSeg Fewer control points, near-perfect segmentation Publications T. Schoepflin, C. Lau, R. Garg, D. Kim, and Y. Kim, "A Research Environment for Developing and Testing Object Tracking Algorithms," Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging 2001, vol. 4310, pp. 667-675 (2001). [ PDF ]