Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation：（轮廓检测和分级图像分割）.pdfVIP

This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited. Content may change prior to final publication. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE 1 Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation ´ Pablo Arbelaez, Member, IEEE, Michael Maire, Member, IEEE, Charless Fowlkes, Member, IEEE, and Jitendra Malik, Fellow, IEEE. Abstract—This paper investigates two fundamental problems in computer vision: contour detection and image segmentation. We present state-of-the-art algorithms for both of these tasks. Our contour detector combines multiple local cues into a globalization framework based on spectral clustering. Our segmentation algorithm consists of generic machinery for transforming the output of any contour detector into a hierarchical region tree. In this manner, we reduce the problem of image segmentation to that of contour detection. Extensive experimental evaluation demonstrates that both our contour detection and segmentation methods significantly outperform competing algorithms. The automatically generated hierarchical segmentations can be interactively refined by user- specified annotations. Computation at multiple image resolutions provides a means of coupling our system to recognition applications. 1 INTRODUCTION This paper presents a un