Enhanced-alignment measure for binary foreground map evaluation

DP Fan, C Gong, Y Cao, B Ren, MM Cheng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.10421, 2018arxiv.org
The existing binary foreground map (FM) measures to address various types of errors in
either pixel-wise or structural ways. These measures consider pixel-level match or image-
level information independently, while cognitive vision studies have shown that human
vision is highly sensitive to both global information and local details in scenes. In this paper,
we take a detailed look at current binary FM evaluation measures and propose a novel and
effective E-measure (Enhanced-alignment measure). Our measure combines local pixel …
The existing binary foreground map (FM) measures to address various types of errors in either pixel-wise or structural ways. These measures consider pixel-level match or image-level information independently, while cognitive vision studies have shown that human vision is highly sensitive to both global information and local details in scenes. In this paper, we take a detailed look at current binary FM evaluation measures and propose a novel and effective E-measure (Enhanced-alignment measure). Our measure combines local pixel values with the image-level mean value in one term, jointly capturing image-level statistics and local pixel matching information. We demonstrate the superiority of our measure over the available measures on 4 popular datasets via 5 meta-measures, including ranking models for applications, demoting generic, random Gaussian noise maps, ground-truth switch, as well as human judgments. We find large improvements in almost all the meta-measures. For instance, in terms of application ranking, we observe improvementrangingfrom9.08% to 19.65% compared with other popular measures.
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