Abstract
Graph cuts method such as α-expansion [4] and fusion moves [22] have been successful at solving many optimization problems in computer vision. Higher-order Markov Random Fields (MRF’s), which are important for numerous applications, have proven to be very difficult, especially for multilabel MRF’s (i.e. more than 2 labels). In this paper we propose a new primal-dual energy minimization method for arbitrary higher-order multilabel MRF’s. Primal-dual methods provide guaranteed approximation bounds, and can exploit information in the dual variables to improve their efficiency. Our algorithm generalizes the PD3