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Efficient MRF Energy Propagation for Video Segmentation via Bilateral Filters
Segmentation of an object from a video is a challenging task in multimedia
applications. Depending on the application, automatic or interactive methods
are desired; however, regardless of the application type, efficient computation
of video object segmentation is crucial for time-critical applications;
specifically, mobile and interactive applications require near real-time
efficiencies. In this paper, we address the problem of video segmentation from
the perspective of efficiency. We initially redefine the problem of video
object segmentation as the propagation of MRF energies along the temporal
domain. For this purpose, a novel and efficient method is proposed to propagate
MRF energies throughout the frames via bilateral filters without using any
global texture, color or shape model. Recently presented bi-exponential filter
is utilized for efficiency, whereas a novel technique is also developed to
dynamically solve graph-cuts for varying, non-lattice graphs in general linear
filtering scenario. These improvements are experimented for both automatic and
interactive video segmentation scenarios. Moreover, in addition to the
efficiency, segmentation quality is also tested both quantitatively and
qualitatively. Indeed, for some challenging examples, significant time
efficiency is observed without loss of segmentation quality.Comment: Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on (Volume:16, Issue: 5, Aug. 2014
Normalized Web Distance and Word Similarity
There is a great deal of work in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and
computer science, about using word (or phrase) frequencies in context in text
corpora to develop measures for word similarity or word association, going back
to at least the 1960s. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the
normalizedis a general way to tap the amorphous low-grade knowledge available
for free on the Internet, typed in by local users aiming at personal
gratification of diverse objectives, and yet globally achieving what is
effectively the largest semantic electronic database in the world. Moreover,
this database is available for all by using any search engine that can return
aggregate page-count estimates for a large range of search-queries. In the
paper introducing the NWD it was called `normalized Google distance (NGD),' but
since Google doesn't allow computer searches anymore, we opt for the more
neutral and descriptive NWD. web distance (NWD) method to determine similarity
between words and phrases. ItComment: Latex, 20 pages, 7 figures, to appear in: Handbook of Natural
Language Processing, Second Edition, Nitin Indurkhya and Fred J. Damerau
Eds., CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2010, ISBN
978-142008592
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