Associative Markov Networks for Segmentation of 3D Scan Data

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We address the problem of segmenting 3D scan data into objects or object classes. Our segmentation framework is based on a subclass of Markov Networks, or Markov Random Fields (MRFs), called Associative Markov Networks, which support efficient graph-cut inference. The AMN models incorporate a large set of diverse features and enforce the preference that adjacent scan points have the same classification label. We use large margin estimation to discriminatively train the model from a set of labeled scans; as a result we automatically learn the relative importance of the features for the segmentation task.

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Datasets:
Dataset 1: Terrain Classification
Dataset 2: Segmentation of Articulated Objects
Dataset 3: Object Segmentation for the Princeton Benchmark