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.

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