Watershed from propagated markers is a generic method to inter- active segmentation of objects in image sequences. It consists in a combination of classical watershed from markers with motion esti- mation techniques. In order to improve the watershed from prop- agated markers technique, this paper introduces a marker binding heuristic. It consists in the imposition of pairs of markers along the border of the object of interest and both markers in a pair, the internal and external ones, must be propagated by the same displacement vector computed from the regions delimited by the pair.Pages: 313-32
