Multiple Video Object Segmentation Based on Maximization of the A Posteriori Probability of Spatio-Temporal Label Field

This paper presents a novel multiple object segmentation algorithm based on a Bayesian framework. According to the characteristic of the intra-frame and inter-frame (spatial and temporal) information, a representation of Maximization of the A posteriori Probability(MAP) of spatio-temporal label field is proposed. So a minimization of energy function is obtained. The optimization of solution is carried out by Iterated Conditional Mode(ICM) method. The initial segmentation label fields is gotten using vector histogram. The experimental results show that the algorithm is effective to multiple object segmentation with partial occlusion.