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We investigate the contour detection task in complex natural images. We propose a novel contour detection algorithm which locally tracks small pieces of edges called edgelets. The combination of the Bayesian modeling and the edgelets enables the use of semi-local prior information and image-dependent likelihoods. We use a mixed offline and online learning strategy to detect the most relevant edgelets. The detection problem is then modeled as a sequential Bayesian tracking task, estimated using a particle filtering technique. Experiments on the Berkeley Segmentation Datasets show that the proposed Particle Filter Contour Detector method performs well compared to competing state-of-the-art methods.
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Widynski, N., Mignotte, M. (2012). A Particle Filter Framework for Contour Detection. In: Fitzgibbon, A., Lazebnik, S., Perona, P., Sato, Y., Schmid, C. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2012. ECCV 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7572. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33718-5_56
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