Optimizing the relevance-redundancy tradeoff for efficient semantic segmentation

Caner Hazırbaş, Julia Diebold, Daniel Cremers

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Abstract

Semantic segmentation aims at jointly computing a segmentation and a semantic labeling of the image plane. The main ingredient is an efficient feature selection strategy. In this work we perform a systematic information-theoretic evaluation of existing features in order to address the question which and how many features are appropriate for an efficient semantic segmentation. To this end, we discuss the tradeoff between relevance and redundancy and present an information-theoretic feature evaluation strategy. Subsequently, we perform a systematic experimental validation which shows that the proposed feature selection strategy provides state-of-the-art semantic segmentations on five semantic segmentation datasets at significantly reduced runtimes. Moreover, it provides a systematic overview of which features are the most relevant for various benchmarks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationScale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision - 5th International Conference, SSVM 2015, Proceedings
EditorsMila Nikolova, Jean-François Aujol, Nicolas Papadakis
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages243-255
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9783319184609
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event5th International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2015 - Lege-Cap Ferret, France
Duration: 31 May 20154 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9087
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2015
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLege-Cap Ferret
Period31/05/154/06/15

Keywords

  • Feature analysis
  • Feature selection
  • Image segmentation
  • Semantic scene understanding

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