Grouping Contours Via a Related Image

Contours have been established in the biological and computer vision literature as a compact yet descriptive representation of object shape. While individual contours provide structure, they lack the large spatial support of region segments (which lack internal structure). We present a method for further grouping of contours in an image using their relationship to the contours of a second, related image. Stereo, motion, and similarity all provide cues that can aid this task; contours that have similar transformations relating them to their matching contours in the second image likely belong to a single group. To find matches for contours, we rely only on shape, which applies directly to all three modalities without modification, in contrast to the specialized approaches developed for each independently. Visually salient contours are extracted in each image, along with a set of candidate transformations for aligning subsets of them. For each transformation, groups of contours with matc...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: NIPS
• Authors: Praveen Srinivasan, Liming Wang, Jianbo Shi
• Keywords: Contours Provide Structure, Individual Contour, Information Technology, Matching Contours, NIPS 2008