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Abstract

Given a large dataset of images, we seek to automatically determine the visually similar object and scene classes together with their image segmentation. To achieve this we combine two ideas: (i) that a set of segmented objects can be partitioned into visual object classes using topic discovery models from statistical text analysis; and (ii) that visual object classes can be used to assess the accuracy of a segmentation. To tie these ideas together we compute multiple segmentations of each image and then: (i) learn the object classes; and (ii) choose the correct segmentations. We demonstrate that such an algorithm succeeds in automatically discovering many familiar objects in a variety of image datasets, including those from Caltech, MSRC and LabelMe.

Notes

Number of pages: 8

Text Reference

Bryan C. Russell, Alexei A. Efros, Josef Sivic, William T. Freeman, and Andrew Zisserman, "Using Multiple Segmentations to Discover Objects and their Extent in Image Collections," Proceedings of CVPR, June, 2006.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Efros_2006_5395,
   author = "Bryan C. Russell and Alexei A. Efros and Josef Sivic and William T. Freeman and Andrew Zisserman",
   title = "Using Multiple Segmentations to Discover Objects and their Extent in Image Collections",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of CVPR",
   month = "June",
   year = "2006",
}

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