[IPOL announce] new article: Comparing Interactive Image Segmentation Models under Different Clicking Procedures

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A new article is available in IPOL: https://www.ipol.im/pub/art/2024/498/

Franco Marchesoni-Acland,
Comparing Interactive Image Segmentation Models under Different Clicking 
Procedures,
Image Processing On Line, 14 (2024), pp. 14–24.
https://doi.org/10.5201/ipol.2024.498

Abstract
Interactive image segmentation (IIS) methods are usually evaluated in 
terms of segmentation performance vs.\ number of clicks (NoC). However, 
the automatic evaluation depends on a clicking procedure and its 
relation to the procedure used for training. In this work we compare 
qualitatively and quantitatively two state-of-the-art IIS methods that 
report the best performances but have not been compared against each 
other. We show i) what method is better, ii) that the performance is 
sensitive to clicking procedures, iii) what method is more robust to 
clicking procedures, and iv) that training with a specific clicking 
procedure does not guarantee the best performance using it.