Method and apparatus for multi-label segmentation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9025876-B2
Application number	US-201313786347-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2013
Priority date	Mar 5, 2012
Publication date	May 5, 2015
Grant date	May 5, 2015

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for multi-label segmentation of an image are described. First an energy function is determined for the image. Then for a homogeneous region of the image variables of the energy function are grouped to a single variable. Subsequently the energy function is minimized and labels are assigned to regions of the image based on the minimized energy function.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for multi-label segmentation of an image, the method comprising:
determining an energy function for the image;
grouping variables of the energy function for a homogeneous region of the image to a single variable;
minimizing the energy function; and
assigning labels to regions of the image based on the minimized energy function.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the energy function is minimized using a maximum…

Assignees

• Thomson Licensing

Inventors

• Schlosser Markus
• Scheuermann Bjoern
• Rosenhahn Bodo

Classifications

• G06F18/24

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T7/11 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T2207/20072

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T7/0081

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K9/6267 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic