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Efficient Pose and Cell Segmentation using Column Generation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2016-12-02 v1

Abstract

We study the problems of multi-person pose segmentation in natural images and instance segmentation in biological images with crowded cells. We formulate these distinct tasks as integer programs where variables correspond to poses/cells. To optimize, we propose a generic relaxation scheme for solving these combinatorial problems using a column generation formulation where the program for generating a column is solved via exact optimization of very small scale integer programs. This results in efficient exploration of the spaces of poses and cells.

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@article{arxiv.1612.00437,
  title  = {Efficient Pose and Cell Segmentation using Column Generation},
  author = {Shaofei Wang and Chong Zhang and Miguel A. Gonzalez-Ballester and Julian Yarkony},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00437},
  year   = {2016}
}