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Sequential interactive image segmentation
Computational Visual Media 2023, 9 (4): 753-765
Published: 05 July 2023
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Interactive image segmentation (IIS) is an important technique for obtaining pixel-level anno-tations. In many cases, target objects share similar semantics. However, IIS methods neglect this con-nection and in particular the cues provided by representations of previously segmented objects, previous user interaction, and previous prediction masks, which can all provide suitable priors for the current annotation. In this paper, we formulate a sequential interactive image segmentation (SIIS) task for minimizing user interaction when segmenting sequences of related images, and we provide a practical approach to this task using two pertinent designs. The first is a novel interaction mode. When annotating a new sample, our method can automatically propose an initial click proposal based on previous annotation. This dramatically helps to reduce the interaction burden on the user. The second is an online opti-mization strategy, with the goal of providing seman-tic information when annotating specific targets, optimizing the model with dense supervision from previously labeled samples. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of regarding SIIS as a particular task, and our methods for addressing it.

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