Performance measures for video object segmentation and tracking


Erdem Ç., Sankur B., Tekalp A.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING, cilt.13, sa.7, ss.937-951, 2004 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 13 Sayı: 7
  • Basım Tarihi: 2004
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/tip.2004.828427
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.937-951
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: canonical correlation analysis, object segmentation, object tracking, performance evaluation without ground truth (GT)
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

We propose measures to evaluate quantitatively the performance of video object segmentation and tracking methods without ground-truth (GT) segmentation maps. The proposed measures are based on spatial differences of color and motion along the boundary of the estimated video object plane and temporal differences between the color histogram of the current object plane and its predecessors. They can be used to localize (spatially and/or temporally) regions where segmentation results are good or bad; and/or they can be combined to yield a single numerical measure to indicate the goodness of the boundary segmentation and tracking results over a sequence. The validity of the proposed performance measures without GT have been demonstrated by canonical correlation analysis with another set of measures with GT on a set of sequences (where GT information is available). Experimental results are presented to evaluate the segmentation maps obtained from various sequences using different segmentation approaches.