Text segmentation, or named text binarization, is usually an essential step for text information extraction from images and videos. However, most existing text segmentation method...
The problem of interactive foreground/background segmentation in still images is of great practical importance in image editing. The state of the art in interactive segmentation is...
Andrew Blake, Carsten Rother, M. Brown, Patrick P&...
Closing the semantic gap in content based image retrieval (CBIR) basically requires the knowledge of the user's intention which is usually translated into a sequence of quest...
Vision tasks, such as segmentation, grouping, recognition, can be formulated as graph partition problems. The recent literature witnessed two popular graph cut algorithms: the Ncu...
We propose a method for segmentation of frontal human portraits from arbitrary unknown backgrounds. Semantic information is used to project the face into a normalized reference fr...
David C. Schneider, Benjamin Prestele, Peter Eiser...