Clothing segmentation using foreground and background estimation based on the constrained Delaunay triangulation

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1581-1592

  Hu, Zhilan ^a,b   Yan, Hong ^b,c   Lin, Xinggang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clothing segmentation; Constrained Delaunay triangulation; Graph cuts; Torso detection

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GRAPH THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BACKGROUND SEEDS; CLOTHING SEGMENTATION; CONSTRAINED DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; FOREGROUND SEEDS; GRAPH CUTS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; TORSO DETECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 38349182752     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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