Measures of Image and Video Segmentation

Abstract

Study on Video and Image segmentation is currently limited by the lack of evaluation metrics and benchmark datasets that covers the large variety of sub-problems appearing in image and video segmentation. Proposed chapter provides an analysis of Evaluation Metrics, Datasets for Image and Video Segmentation methods. Importance is on wide-ranging, Datasets robust Metrics which used for evaluation purposes without inducing any bias towards the evaluation results. Introductory Section discusses traditional image and video segmentation methods available, the importance and need of measures, metrics and dataset required to evaluate segmentation algorithms are discussed in next section. Main focus of the chapter explains the measures, metrics and dataset available for evaluation of segmentation techniques of both image and video. The goal is to provide details about a set of impartial datasets and evaluation metrics and to leave the final evaluation of the evaluation process to the understanding of the reader.