Spatio-temporal segmentation based on region merging. Moscheni, F., Bhattacharjee, S., & Kunt, M. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20(9):897--915, IEEE, 1998.
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This paper proposes a technique for spatio-temporal segmentation to identify the objects present in the scene represented in a video sequence. This technique processes two consecutive frames at a time. A region-merging approach is used to identify the objects in the scene. Starting from an oversegmentation of the current frame, the objects are formed by iteratively merging regions together. Regions are merged based on their mutual spatio-temporal similarity. We propose a modified Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for estimating the temporal similarity. The region-merging process is based on a weighted, directed graph. Two complementary graph-based clustering rules are proposed, namely, the strong rule and the weak rule. These rules take advantage of the natural structures present in the graph. Experimental results on different types of scenes demonstrate the ability of the proposed technique to automatically partition the scene into its constituent objects
@Article{Moscheni1998,
  Title                    = {Spatio-temporal segmentation based on region merging},
  Author                   = {Moscheni, F. and Bhattacharjee, S. and Kunt, M.},
  Journal                  = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  Year                     = {1998},
  Number                   = {9},
  Pages                    = {897--915},
  Volume                   = {20},

  Abstract                 = {This paper proposes a technique for spatio-temporal segmentation to identify the objects present in the scene represented in a video sequence. This technique processes two consecutive frames at a time. A region-merging approach is used to identify the objects in the scene. Starting from an oversegmentation of the current frame, the objects are formed by iteratively merging regions together. Regions are merged based on their mutual spatio-temporal similarity. We propose a modified Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for estimating the temporal similarity. The region-merging process is based on a weighted, directed graph. Two complementary graph-based clustering rules are proposed, namely, the strong rule and the weak rule. These rules take advantage of the natural structures present in the graph. Experimental results on different types of scenes demonstrate the ability of the proposed technique to automatically partition the scene into its constituent objects},
  Publisher                = {IEEE},
  Review                   = {- video segmentation
- segments into smaller peices
- uses region-merging to merge things that are similar "spatiotemporally" together
- uses Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to assess temporal similarity},
  Timestamp                = {2013.08.29}
}

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