Higher Order Conditional Random Field for Multi-Label Interactive Image Segmentation

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the efficient approach to tackle the multi-label interactive image segmentation issue by applying the higher order Conditional Random Fields model which associates superpixel as higher order energy. People did take advantage of CRF model for unsupervised segmentation for years, but it requires training set for providing neccessary information. Therefore, unsupervised strategy is fairly restrictive for the variety of image contexts and categorizations. For this reason, the user interaction seems inevitable to help us address the multi- label segmentation's riddle in accordance with exploiting CRF perspectives. The promising experiments are conducted in MSRC and Berkeley dataset comparing with the original Conditional Random Fields framework.