What is Computer Vision Graph Cuts

As applied in the field of computer vision, graph cut optimization can be employed to efficiently solve a wide variety of low-level computer vision problems, such as image smoothing, the stereo correspondence problem, image segmentation, object co-segmentation, and many other computer vision problems that can be formulated in terms of energy minimization. Many of these energy minimization problems can be approximated by solving a maximum flow problem in a graph. Under most formulations of such problems in computer vision, the minimum energy solution corresponds to the maximum a posteriori estimate of a solution. Although many computer vision algorithms involve cutting a graph, the term "graph cuts" is applied specifically to those models which employ a max-flow/min-cut optimization.

How you will benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Graph cuts in computer vision

Chapter 2: Max-flow min-cut theorem

Chapter 3: Image segmentation

Chapter 4: Cut (graph theory)

Chapter 5: Minimum cut

Chapter 6: Watershed (image processing)

Chapter 7: GrabCut

Chapter 8: Random walker algorithm

Chapter 9: Graph cut optimization

Chapter 10: Video matting

(II) Answering the public top questions about computer vision graph cuts.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of computer vision graph cuts in many fields.

Who this book is for

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Computer Vision Graph Cuts.