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CollageParsing: Nonparametric Scene Parsing by Adaptive Overlapping Windows

Frederick Tung and James J. Little

Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Abstract. Scene parsing is the problem of assigning a semantic label to every pixel in an image. Though an ambitious task, impressive advances have been made in recent years, in particular in scalable nonparametric techniques suitable for open-universe databases. This paper presents the CollageParsing algorithm for scalable nonparametric scene parsing. In contrast to common practice in recent nonparametric approaches, CollageParsing reasons about mid-level windows that are designed to capture entire objects, instead of low-level superpixels that tend to fragment objects. On a standard benchmark consisting of outdoor scenes from the LabelMe database, CollageParsing achieves state-of-the-art nonparametric scene parsing results with 7 to 11% higher average per-class accuracy than recent nonparametric approaches.

Keywords: image parsing, semantic segmentation, scene understanding

LNCS 8694, p. 511 ff.

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