Summary of Enhancing Boundary Segmentation For Topological Accuracy with Skeleton-based Methods, by Chuni Liu et al.
Enhancing Boundary Segmentation for Topological Accuracy with Skeleton-based Methods
by Chuni Liu, Boyuan Ma, Xiaojuan Ban, Yujie Xie, Hao Wang, Weihua Xue, Jingchao Ma, Ke Xu
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Skea-Topo Aware loss function aims to enhance the topology accuracy in boundary segmentation results for reticular images, such as cell membrane segmentation, grain boundary segmentation, and road segmentation. The novel loss function consists of two components: a skeleton-aware weighted loss that improves segmentation accuracy by modeling object geometry with skeletons, and a boundary rectified term that identifies and emphasizes topological critical pixels using both foreground and background skeletons in ground truth and predictions. Experiments show the method improves topological consistency by up to 7 points in VI compared to 13 state-of-art methods across three different boundary segmentation datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to make computer programs better at understanding images that have lots of connected parts, like cells or roads. This is important because if these programs don’t get it right, they can make mistakes later on. The program uses two special techniques to make sure the results are correct: one helps it understand what shapes things should be, and the other helps it identify important parts where things might go wrong. When tested, this new way of doing things worked really well and was better than many existing methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Loss function
