EISeg: Effective interactive segmentation

Interactive image segmentation is a popular and challenging task. User interactions, e.g., setting seeds or specifying bounding box, play a critical role in determining the performance of all interactive segmentation approaches. However, most methods focus on improving segmentation performance by integrating higher level information; and to the best of our knowledge, no work has been done to improve the effectiveness of user interactions yet. In this paper, we propose the effective interactive segmentation (EISeg) method based on Neutro-Connectedness, which provides user with objective visual clues for guiding interactions. The experiments demonstrate that the proposed EISeg method guides interaction effectively, and achieves better results with much less user interaction (averagely 2.3 foreground and 1.8 background seeds/image) than state-of-the-art approaches.