Methodologies for objective evaluation of video segmentation quality

The major objective when working with image and video segmentation is to design an algorithm that produces appropriate segmentation results for the particular goals of the application addressed. The problem of video segmentation quality assessment thus assumes a crucial importance in evaluating the appropriateness of a segmentation algorithm for a given application. This problem has received considerably less attention in the literature than the development of the segmentation algorithms themselves. The purpose of this paper is to propose methodologies for the objective evaluation of video segmentation quality.