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As content-based multimedia applications become increasingly important, demand for technologies on semantic video object segmentation is growing, where the segmented objects are expected to be in line with human visual perception. Existing research is limited to semi-automatic approach, in which human intervene is often required. These include manual selection of seeds for region growing or manual classification of background edges etc. In this paper, we propose an automatic region growing algorithm for video object segmentation, which features in automatic selection of seeds and thus the entire segmentation does not require any action from human users. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs well in terms of the effectiveness in video object segmentation.
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Feng, Y., Fang, H., Jiang, J. (2005). Region Growing with Automatic Seeding for Semantic Video Object Segmentation. In: Singh, S., Singh, M., Apte, C., Perner, P. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. ICAPR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3687. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11552499_60
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