Disney Research

Abstract

Bilateral Space Video Segmentation-Image

In this work, we propose a novel approach to video segmentation that operates in bilateral space. We design a new energy on the vertices of a regularly sampled spatiotemporal bilateral grid, which can be solved efficiently using a standard graph cut label assignment. Using a bilateral formulation, the energy that we minimize implicitly approximates long-range, Spatio-temporal connections between pixels while still containing only a small number of variables and only local graph edges. We compare to a number of recent methods and show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art results on multiple benchmarks in a fraction of the runtime. Furthermore, our method scales linearly with image size, allowing for interactive feedback on real-world high-resolution video.

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