Unsupervised tattoo segmentation combining bottom-up and top-down cues

Josef D. Allen; Nan Zhao; Jiangbo Yuan; Xiuwen Liu

doi:10.1117/12.884368

31 May 2011 Unsupervised tattoo segmentation combining bottom-up and top-down cues

Josef D. Allen, Nan Zhao, Jiangbo Yuan, Xiuwen Liu

Proceedings Volume 8063, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2011; 80630L (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884368
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Tattoo segmentation is challenging due to the complexity and large variance in tattoo structures. We have developed a segmentation algorithm for finding tattoos in an image. Our basic idea is split-merge: split each tattoo image into clusters through a bottom-up process, learn to merge the clusters containing skin and then distinguish tattoo from the other skin via top-down prior in the image itself. Tattoo segmentation with unknown number of clusters is transferred to a figureground segmentation. We have applied our segmentation algorithm on a tattoo dataset and the results have shown that our tattoo segmentation system is efficient and suitable for further tattoo classification and retrieval purpose.

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Josef D. Allen, Nan Zhao, Jiangbo Yuan, and Xiuwen Liu "Unsupervised tattoo segmentation combining bottom-up and top-down cues", Proc. SPIE 8063, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2011, 80630L (31 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884368

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