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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Four Color Theorem for Fast Early Vision
Authors : Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool
Published in: Computer Vision – ACCV 2010
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Recent work on early vision such as image segmentation, image restoration, stereo matching, and optical flow models these problems using Markov Random Fields. Although this formulation yields an NP-hard energy minimization problem, good heuristics have been developed based on graph cuts and belief propagation. Nevertheless both approaches still require tens of seconds to solve stereo problems on recent PCs. Such running times are impractical for optical flow and many image segmentation and restoration problems. We show how to reduce the computational complexity of belief propagation by applying the Four Color Theorem to limit the maximum number of labels in the underlying image segmentation to at most four. We show that this provides substantial speed improvements for large inputs to a variety of vision problems, while maintaining competitive result quality.