Semantic image segmentation using an improved hierarchical graphical model

Abstract

Hierarchical graphical models can incorporate jointly several tasks in a unified framework. By applying this approach, information exchange among tasks would improve the results. A hierarchical conditional random field (CRF) is proposed here to improve the semantic image segmentation. Although this newly proposed model applies the information of several tasks, its run time is comparable with the contemporary approaches. This method is evaluated on MSRC dataset and has shown similar or better segmentation accuracy in comparison with models where CRFs or hierarchical models are adopted.