@conference {Kirillov2017a,
	title = {InstanceCut: From edges to instances with MultiCut},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2017},
	volume = {2017-Janua},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {7322{\textendash}7331},
	abstract = {This work addresses the task of instance-aware semantic segmentation. Our key motivation is to design a simple method with a new modelling-paradigm, which therefore has a different trade-off between advantages and disadvantages compared to known approaches.Our approach, we term InstanceCut, represents the problem by two output modalities: (i) an instance-agnostic semantic segmentation and (ii) all instance-boundaries. The former is computed from a standard convolutional neural network for semantic segmentation, and the latter is derived from a new instanceaware edge detection model. To reason globally about the optimal partitioning of an image into instances, we combine these two modalities into a novel MultiCut formulation. We evaluate our approach on the challenging CityScapes dataset. Despite the conceptual simplicity of our approach, we achieve the best result among all published methods, and perform particularly well for rare object classes.},
	isbn = {9781538604571},
	doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2017.774},
	author = {Kirillov, Alexander and Levinkov, Evgeny and Bj{\"o}rn Andres and Savchynskyy, Bogdan and Carsten Rother}
}
@conference {Levinkov2017,
	title = {Joint graph decomposition \& node labeling: Problem, algorithms, applications},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2017},
	volume = {2017-Janua},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {1904{\textendash}1912},
	abstract = {We state a combinatorial optimization problem whose feasible solutions define both a decomposition and a node labeling of a given graph. This problem offers a common mathematical abstraction of seemingly unrelated computer vision tasks, including instance-separating semantic segmentation, articulated human body pose estimation and multiple object tracking. Conceptually, the problem we state generalizes the unconstrained integer quadratic program and the minimum cost lifted multicut problem, both of which are NP-hard. In order to find feasible solutions efficiently, we define two local search algorithms that converge monotonously to a local optimum, offering a feasible solution at any time. To demonstrate their effectiveness in tackling computer vision tasks, we apply these algorithms to instances of the problem that we construct from published data, using published algorithms. We report state-of-the-art application-specific accuracy for the three above-mentioned applications.},
	isbn = {9781538604571},
	doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2017.206},
	author = {Levinkov, Evgeny and Uhrig, Jonas and Tang, Siyu and Omran, Mohamed and Insafutdinov, Eldar and Kirillov, Alexander and Carsten Rother and Brox, Thomas and Schiele, Bernt and Bj{\"o}rn Andres}
}
