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A database of human segmented natural images and its application to evaluating segmentation algorithms and measuring ecological statistics

Martin, D., Fowlkes, C., Tal, D., Malik, J.·2002·Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001

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This paper presents a database containing 'ground truth' segmentations produced by humans for images of a wide variety of natural scenes. We define an error measure which quantifies the consistency between segmentations of differing granularities and find that different human segmentations of the same image are highly consistent. Use of this dataset is demonstrated in two applications: (1) evaluating the performance of segmentation algorithms and (2) measuring probability distributions associated with Gestalt grouping factors as well as statistics of image region properties.

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Authors
Martin, D., Fowlkes, C., Tal, D., & Malik, J.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Venue
Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001
Published
2002-11-13
Volume
2
Pages
416-423
OpenAlex
W2121927366
Cited by
8,216
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FWCI
23.28
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
  • UC Berkeley (submittedVersion)
Funders
North China University of Technology
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
human segmentation, natural images, ground truth segmentation, segmentation algorithm evaluation, Gestalt grouping, ecological statistics

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