Experts-Shift: Learning active spatial classification experts for keyframe-based video segmentation

Experts-Shift is a novel statistical framework for keyframe-based video segmentation. Compared to existing video segmentation techniques with simple color models, our method proposes a probability mixture model coupling strong image classifiers (experts) with latent spatial configuration. In order to propagate image labels to the successive frames, our algorithm track all experts jointly by a efficient MCMC sampler with their relations modeled by MRFs. This algorithm is capable to handle overlapping color distribution, ambiguous image boundaries, large displacement in challenging scenario with a solid foundation of both generative modeling and discriminative learning. Experiment shows our algorithm achieves high quality results and need less supervision than previous work.