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Affinity Derivation and Graph Merge for Instance Segmentation

arXiv 1811.10870 ↗First posted 27 Nov 2018cs.CVcited by 25

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present an instance segmentation scheme based on pixel affinity information, which is the relationship of two pixels belonging to a same instance. In our scheme, we use two neural networks with similar structure. One is to predict pixel level semantic score and the other is designed to derive pixel affinities. Regarding pixels as the vertexes and affinities as edges, we then propose a simple yet effective graph merge algorithm to cluster pixels into instances. Experimental results show that our scheme can generate fine-grained instance mask. With Cityscapes training data, the proposed scheme achieves 27.3 AP on test set.

Key facts. Cited by 25 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 27 Nov 2018.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 9; 2022: 11; 2023: 3; 2024: 1; 2025: 0; 2026: 1.

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  1. 2021Deep Occlusion-Aware Instance Segmentation with Overlapping BiLayerscited by 104
  2. 2022CMT-DeepLab: Clustering Mask Transformers for Panoptic Segmentationcited by 60
  3. 2021SOTR: Segmenting Objects with Transformerscited by 42
  4. 2022Open-World Instance Segmentation: Exploiting Pseudo Ground Truth From Learned Pairwise Affinitycited by 41
  5. 2021Deep Learning Based 3D Segmentation: A Surveycited by 30
  6. 2022E2EC: An End-to-End Contour-based Method for High-Quality High-Speed Instance Segmentationcited by 27
  7. 2022Fashionformer: A simple, Effective and Unified Baseline for Human Fashion Segmentation and Recognitioncited by 16
  8. 2022PanopticDepth: A Unified Framework for Depth-aware Panoptic Segmentationcited by 14
  9. 2021Improving Video Instance Segmentation via Temporal Pyramid Routingcited by 13
  10. 2021iShape: A First Step Towards Irregular Shape Instance Segmentationcited by 12
  11. 2022SharpContour: A Contour-based Boundary Refinement Approach for Efficient and Accurate Instance Segmentationcited by 12
  12. 2022kMaX-DeepLab: k-means Mask Transformercited by 12
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  1. 2021Combinatorial Optimization for Panoptic Segmentation: A Fully Differentiable Approachcited by 10
  2. 2023Recurrent Generic Contour-based Instance Segmentation with Progressive Learningcited by 9
  3. 2023Open-world Instance Segmentation: Top-down Learning with Bottom-up Supervisioncited by 8
  4. 2021Real-time Instance Segmentation with Discriminative Orientation Mapscited by 6
  5. 2022Beyond mAP: Towards better evaluation of instance segmentationcited by 6
  6. 2023Graph-Segmenter: Graph Transformer with Boundary-aware Attention for Semantic Segmentationcited by 6
  7. 2022Occlusion-Aware Instance Segmentation via BiLayer Network Architecturescited by 5
  8. 2021BoundarySqueeze: Image Segmentation as Boundary Squeezingcited by 4
  9. 2022Affinity Feature Strengthening for Accurate, Complete and Robust Vessel Segmentationcited by 3
  10. 2021Split GCN: Effective Interactive Annotation for Segmentation of Disconnected Instancecited by 2
  11. 2022Spatial-Temporal Deep Embedding for Vehicle Trajectory Reconstruction from High-Angle Videocited by 1
  12. 2024Deep Learning-Based 3D Instance and Semantic Segmentation: A Reviewcited by 1
  13. 2026SomaNet: Weakly Supervised Learning for Instance Soma Segmentation in 3D Electron Microscopy with Partial Annotationscited by 0