CVIVSep 8, 2020

A Deep Neural Network Tool for Automatic Segmentation of Human Body Parts in Natural Scenes

arXiv:2009.09900v1
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This work addresses the need for accurate body part segmentation in computer vision applications, but it appears incremental as it applies an existing method (Bayesian SegNet with concrete dropout) to a standard dataset.

The authors tackled the problem of automatically segmenting human body parts in natural scenes by training a Bayesian SegNet with concrete dropout on the Pascal-Parts dataset, achieving pixel-level predictions for categories like hair, head, and torso.

This short article describes a deep neural network trained to perform automatic segmentation of human body parts in natural scenes. More specifically, we trained a Bayesian SegNet with concrete dropout on the Pascal-Parts dataset to predict whether each pixel in a given frame was part of a person's hair, head, ear, eyebrows, legs, arms, mouth, neck, nose, or torso.

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