@article {Shotton2009,
	title = {TextonBoost for image understanding: Multi-class object recognition and segmentation by jointly modeling texture, layout, and context},
	journal = {International Journal of Computer Vision},
	volume = {81},
	number = {1},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {2{\textendash}23},
	abstract = {This paper details a new approach for learning a discriminative model of object classes, incorporating texture, layout, and context information efficiently. The learned model is used for automatic visual understanding and semantic segmentation of photographs. Our discriminative model exploits texture-layout filters, novel features based on textons, which jointly model patterns of texture and their spatial layout. Unary classification and feature selection is achieved using shared boosting to give an efficient classifier which can be applied to a large number of classes. Accurate image segmentation is achieved by incorporating the unary classifier in a conditional random field, which (i) captures the spatial interactions between class labels of neighboring pixels, and (ii) improves the segmentation of specific object instances. Efficient training of the model on large datasets is achieved by exploiting both random feature selection and piecewise training methods. High classification and segmentation accuracy is demonstrated on four varied databases: (i) the MSRC 21-class database containing photographs of real objects viewed under general lighting conditions, poses and viewpoints, (ii) the 7-class Corel subset and (iii) the 7-class Sowerby database used in He et al. (Proceeding of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 2, pp. 695-702, June 2004), and (iv) a set of video sequences of television shows. The proposed algorithm gives competitive and visually pleasing results for objects that are highly textured (grass, trees, etc.), highly structured (cars, faces, bicycles, airplanes, etc.), and even articulated (body, cow, etc.). {\textcopyright} 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.},
	keywords = {Boosting, Conditional random field, Context, image understanding, Layout, Object recognition, Piecewise training, Segmentation, Semantic image segmentation, Textons, Texture},
	issn = {09205691},
	doi = {10.1007/s11263-007-0109-1},
	url = {http://jamie.shotton.org/work/code.html},
	author = {Shotton, Jamie and Winn, John and Carsten Rother and Criminisi, Antonio}
}
@conference {Shotton2006,
	title = {TextonBoost: Joint appearance, shape and context modeling for multi-class object recognition and segmentation},
	booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {3951 LNCS},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {1{\textendash}15},
	abstract = {This paper proposes a new approach to learning a discriminative model of object classes, incorporating appearance, shape and context information efficiently. The learned model is used for automatic visual recognition and semantic segmentation of photographs. Our discriminative model exploits novel features, based on textons, which jointly model shape and texture. Unary classification and feature selection is achieved using shared boosting to give an efficient classifier which can be applied to a large number of classes. Accurate image segmentation is achieved by incorporating these classifiers in a conditional random field. Efficient training of the model on very large datasets is achieved by exploiting both random feature selection and piecewise training methods. High classification and segmentation accuracy are demonstrated on three different databases: i) our own 21-object class database of photographs of real objects viewed under general lighting conditions, poses and viewpoints, ii) the 7-class Corel subset and iii) the 7-class Sowerby database used in [1]. The proposed algorithm gives competitive results both for highly textured (e.g. grass, trees), highly structured (e.g. cars, faces, bikes, aeroplanes) and articulated objects (e.g. body, cow). {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.},
	keywords = {aeroplanes) and articulated objects (eg body, bikes, cow), faces, g grass, highly structured (eg cars, trees)},
	isbn = {3540338322},
	issn = {16113349},
	doi = {10.1007/11744023_1},
	url = {http://research.microsoft.com/vision/cambridge/recognition/.},
	author = {Shotton, Jamie and Winn, John and Carsten Rother and Criminisi, Antonio}
}
