Highly Accurate Dichotomous Image Segmentation
GitHub – xuebinqin/DIS: This is the repo for our new project Highly Accurate Dichotomous Image Segmentation
“Currently, existing image segmentation tasks mainly focus on segmenting objects with specific characteristics, e.g., salient, camouflaged, meticulous, or specific categories. Most of them have the same input/output formats, and barely use exclusive mechanisms designed for segmenting targets in their models, which means almost all tasks are dataset-dependent. Thus, it is very promising to formulate a category-agnostic DIS task for accurately segmenting objects with different structure complexities, regardless of their characteristics. Compared with semantic segmentation, the proposed DIS task usually focuses on images with single or a few targets, from which getting richer accurate details of each target is more feasible.
To build the highly accurate Dichotomous Image Segmentation dataset (DIS5K), we first manually collected over 12,000 images from Flickr1 based on our pre-designed keywords. Then, we obtained 5,470 images of 22 groups and 225 categories from the 12,000 images according to the structural complexities of the objects. Each image is then manually labeled with pixel-wise accuracy using GIMP. The labeled targets in DIS5K mainly focus on the “objects of the images defined by the pre-designed keywords (categories)” regardless of their characteristics e.g., salient, common, camouflaged, meticulous, etc. The average per-image labeling time is ∼30 minutes and some images cost up to 10 hours…”
Source: https://xuebinqin.github.io/dis/index.html
Code: github.com/xuebinqin/DIS