Superpixel Benchmark
Superpixel benchmark, tools and algorithms.
Superpixels: An Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art

This is the documentation corresponding to davidstutz/superpixel-benchmark, presenting a large-scale comparison of superpixel algorithms conducted in [1].

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This repository subsumes earlier work on comparing superpixel algorithms: davidstutz/gcpr2015-superpixels, davidstutz/superpixels-revisited.

Please cite the following work if you use this benchmark or the provided tools or implementations:

[1] D. Stutz, A. Hermans, B. Leibe.
    Superpixels: An Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art.
    Computing Research Repository, abs/1612.01601.

Also make sure to cite additional papers when using datasets or superpixel algorithms.

License

Note that part of the provided algorithms come with different licenses. Also note that the datasets come with different licenses. Further, note that the additional dataset downloads follow the licenses of the original datasets.

The remaining source code provided in this repository is licensed as follows:

Copyright (c) 2016, David Stutz All rights reserved.

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