A novel two-tier Bayesian based method for hair segmentation

In this paper, a novel two-tier Bayesian based method is proposed for hair segmentation. In the first tier, we construct a Bayesian model by integrating hair occurrence prior probabilities (HOPP) with a generic hair color model (GHCM) to obtain some reliable hair seed pixels. These initial seeds are further propagated to their neighborhood pixels by utilizing segmentation results of mean shift, to obtain more seeds. In the second tier, all of these selected seeds are used to train a hair-specific Gaussian model, which are combined with HOPP to build the second Bayesian model for pixel classification. Mean shift results are further utilized to remove holes and spread hair regions. The experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of our approach.