Abstract
In this paper, we propose an adaptive higher-order CRF (HCRF) labeling approach towards automatic video object segmentation with better performances, higher effectiveness and efficiency. In comparison with the existing state of the arts, our approach achieves further improvements in terms of segmentation results. Our contribution can be highlighted as: (i) HCRF labeling is made adaptive to video content changes via a windowed dynamics; (ii) Fusion of multiple features is automatically optimized via adaptive weight parameters; (iii) Our approach is suitable for presegmentations base on a simpler image segmentation to reduce the overall computing cost, and be easily generalized without compromising on its performances. The experimental results show that our method can improve the video segmentation performance. Copyright 2014 ACM.