Image specific feature similarities

Ido Omer*, Michael Werman

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Calculating a reliable similarity measure between pixel features is essential for many computer vision and image processing applications. We propose a similarity measure (affinity) between pixel features, which depends on the feature space histogram of the image. We use the observation that clusters in the feature space histogram are typically smooth and roughly convex. Given two feature points we adjust their similarity according to the bottleneck in the histogram values on the straight line between them. We call our new similarities Bottleneck Affinities. These measures are computed efficiently, we demonstrate superior segmentation results compared to the use of the Euclidean metric.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ECCV 2006, 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
Pages321-333
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006 - Graz, Austria
Duration: 7 May 200613 May 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3952 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityGraz
Period7/05/0613/05/06

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