Efficient MRF Energy Propagation for Video Segmentation via Bilateral Filters

Understand

Segmentation of an object from a video is a challenging task in multimedia applications.

• Depending on the application, automatic or interactive methods are desired; however, regardless of the application type, efficient computation of video object segmentation is crucial for time-critical applications; specifically, mobile and interactive applications require near real-time efficiencies.
• In this paper, we address the problem of video segmentation from the perspective of efficiency.
• We initially redefine the problem of video object segmentation as the propagation of MRF energies along the temporal domain.