Content-Adaptive Superpixel Segmentation

Superpixel segmentation targets at grouping pixels in an image into atomic regions whose boundaries align well with the natural object boundaries. This paper first proposes a new feature representation for superpixel segmentation that holistically embraces color, contour, texture, and spatial features. Then, we introduce a clustering-based discriminability measure to iteratively evaluate the importance of different features. Integrating the feature representation and the discriminability measure, we propose a novel content-adaptive superpixel (CAS) segmentation algorithm. CAS is able to automatically and iteratively adjust the weights of different features to fit various properties of image instances. Experiments on several challenging datasets demonstrate that the proposed CAS outperforms the state-of-the-art methods and has a low computational cost.