Segmenting objects with Bayesian fusion of active contour models and convnet priors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07421v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 20:36:43 GMT
• Title: Segmenting objects with Bayesian fusion of active contour models and convnet priors
• Authors: Przemyslaw Polewski, Jacquelyn Shelton, Wei Yao, Marco Heurich,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel instance segmentation method geared towards Natural Resource Monitoring (NRM) imagery. We formulate the problem as Bayesian maximum a posteriori inference which, in learning the individual object contours, incorporates shape, location, and position priors. In experiments, we tackle the challenging, real-world problem of segmenting individual dead tree crowns and precise contours.
• Score: 0.729597981661727
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Instance segmentation is a core computer vision task with great practical significance. Recent advances, driven by large-scale benchmark datasets, have yielded good general-purpose Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based methods. Natural Resource Monitoring (NRM) utilizes remote sensing imagery with generally known scale and containing multiple overlapping instances of the same class, wherein the object contours are jagged and highly irregular. This is in stark contrast with the regular man-made objects found in classic benchmark datasets. We address this problem and propose a novel instance segmentation method geared towards NRM imagery. We formulate the problem as Bayesian maximum a posteriori inference which, in learning the individual object contours, incorporates shape, location, and position priors from state-of-the-art CNN architectures, driving a simultaneous level-set evolution of multiple object contours. We employ loose coupling between the CNNs that supply the priors and the active contour process, allowing a drop-in replacement of new network architectures. Moreover, we introduce a novel prior for contour shape, namely, a class of Deep Shape Models based on architectures from Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). These Deep Shape Models are in essence a non-linear generalization of the classic Eigenshape formulation. In experiments, we tackle the challenging, real-world problem of segmenting individual dead tree crowns and delineating precise contours. We compare our method to two leading general-purpose instance segmentation methods - Mask R-CNN and K-net - on color infrared aerial imagery. Results show our approach to significantly outperform both methods in terms of reconstruction quality of tree crown contours. Furthermore, use of the GAN-based deep shape model prior yields significant improvement of all results over the vanilla Eigenshape prior.

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