Batra D., Kowdle A., Parikh D., Luo J., Chen T. Interactive Co-segmentation of Objects in Image Collections

Springer, 2011. — 57 p.We survey a recent technique in computer vision called Co-segmentation, which is the task of simultaneously extracting (or co-segmenting) common foreground objects from multiple related images. The notion of co-segmentation was originally introduced several years ago, and has since been extended in various ways.
In this manuscript, we review a number of these recent techniques in Chapter 1. We present one technique for interactive co-segmentation, our recent work called iCoseg in detail in Chapter 2. We provide an overview of applications of object co-segmentation in Chapter 3 and finally discuss some exciting future directions in Chapter 4.
We hope this manuscript gives the reader a combination of breadth and depth on this topic, and will serve as a good introductory reference for the problem of co-segmentation.An Approach to Interactive Co-segmentation
Applications
Future of Co-segmentation