A Learning-Based Framework for Image Segmentation Evaluation

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in automatic image analysis. However, there is still no generally accepted effectiveness measure which is suitable for evaluating the segmentation quality in every application. In this paper, we propose an evaluation framework which benefits from multiple stand-alone measures. To this end, different segmentation evaluation measures are chosen to evaluate segmentation separately, and the results are effectively combined using machine learning methods. We train and implement this framework in the segmentation dataset which contains images of different contents with segmentation ground truth produced by human. In addition, we provide human evaluation of image segmentation pairs to benchmark the evaluation results of the measures. Experimental results show a better performance than the stand-alone methods.