IR Image Segmentation using GrabCut

Abstract

GrabCut is a way to perform 2D segmentation in an image that is very user friendly. The user only need to input the a very rough segmentation between foreground and background. Typically this is down by drawing a rectangle around the object of interest. The way that this is accomplish technically is by using a combination of Graph Cuts and statistical models of the foreground and background structure in the color space. The GrabCut algorithm has also been implemented professional software like the newest version of Microsoft Office.