关键词: 行人分割, Graph Cut算法, 层次聚类, Chamfer距离, 形状约束

Abstract:

Most of the variants of Graph Cut algorithm do not impose any shape constraints on the segmentations, rendering it difficult to obtain semantic valid segmentation results. As for pedestrian segmentation, this difficulty leads to the non-human shape of the segmented object. An improved Graph Cut algorithm combining shape priors and discriminatively learned appearance model was proposed in this paper to segment pedestrians in static images. In this approach, a large number of real pedestrian silhouettes were used to encode the a'priori shape of pedestrians, and a hierarchical model of pedestrian template was built to reduce the matching time, which would hopefully bias the segmentation results to be humanlike. A discriminative appearance model of the pedestrian was also proposed in this paper to better distinguish persons from the background. The experimental results verify the improved performance of this approach.

Key words: pedestrian segmentation, Graph Cut algorithm, hierarchical clustering, Chamfer distance, shape prior