Object segmentation by long term analysis of point trajectories

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Abstract

Unsupervised learning requires a grouping step that defines which data belong together. A natural way of grouping in images is the segmentation of objects or parts of objects. While pure bottom-up segmentation from static cues is well known to be ambiguous at the object level, the story changes as soon as objects move. In this paper, we present a method that uses long term point trajectories based on dense optical flow. Defining pair-wise distances between these trajectories allows to cluster them, which results in temporally consistent segmentations of moving objects in a video shot. In contrast to multi-body factorization, points and even whole objects may appear or disappear during the shot. We provide a benchmark dataset and an evaluation method for this so far uncovered setting. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.

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Brox, T., & Malik, J. (2010). Object segmentation by long term analysis of point trajectories. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6315 LNCS, pp. 282–295). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15555-0_21

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