Video segmentation with joint object and trajectory labeling

Abstract

Unsupervised video object segmentation is a challenging problem because it involves a large amount of data and object appearance may significantly change over time. In this paper, we propose a bottom-up approach for the combination of object segmentation and motion segmentation using a novel graphical model, which is formulated as inference in a conditional random field (CRF) model. This model combines object labeling and trajectory clustering in a unified probabilistic framework. The CRF contains binary variables representing the class labels of image pixels as well as binary variables indicating the correctness of trajectory clustering, which integrates dense local interaction and sparse global constraint. An optimization scheme based on a coordinate ascent style procedure is proposed to solve the inference problem. We evaluate our proposed framework by comparing it to other video and motion segmentation algorithms. Our method achieves improved performance on state-of-the-art benchmark datasets.