Cited by 1,659Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningMedical Image Segmentation Techniques

Panoptic Segmentation

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Kirillov, Alexander, He, Kaiming, Girshick, Ross, Rother, Carsten, Dollár, Piotr·2019·2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

We propose and study a task we name panoptic segmentation (PS). Panoptic segmentation unifies the typically distinct tasks of semantic segmentation (assign a class label to each pixel) and instance segmentation (detect and segment each object instance). The proposed task requires generating a coherent scene segmentation that is rich and complete, an important step toward real-world vision systems. While early work in computer vision addressed related image/scene parsing tasks, these are not currently popular, possibly due to lack of appropriate metrics or associated recognition challenges. To address this, we propose a novel panoptic quality (PQ) metric that captures performance for all classes (stuff and things) in an interpretable and unified manner. Using the proposed metric, we perform a rigorous study of both human and machine performance for PS on three existing datasets, revealing interesting insights about the task. The aim of our work is to revive the interest of the community in a more unified view of image segmentation. For more analysis and up-to-date results, please check the arXiv version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00868.

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Authors
Kirillov, A., He, K., Girshick, R., Rother, C., & Dollár, P.
Affiliations
  • Meta (United States) (US)
  • Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (DE)
  • Heidelberg University (DE)
Venue
2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2019-06
Pages
9396-9405
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2798040152
Cited by
1,659
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 113 · 2025: 240 · 2024: 333 · 2023: 277 · 2022: 231 · 2021: 236 · 2020: 148 · 2019: 64 · 2018: 16
FWCI
54.72
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
Keywords
panoptic segmentation, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, scene parsing, human performance comparison, image segmentation evaluation

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