A database of human segmented natural images and its application toevaluating segmentation algorithms and measuring ecological statistics
Martin, D.; Fowlkes, C.; Tal, D.; Malik, J.
Computer Vision, 2001. ICCV 2001. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Conference on
Volume 2, Issue , 2001 Page(s):416 - 423 vol.2
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/ICCV.2001.937655
Summary:This paper presents a database containing `ground truth' segmentations produced by humans for images of a wide variety of natural scenes. We define an error measure which quantifies the consistency between segmentations of differing granularities and find that different human segmentations of the same image are highly consistent. Use of this dataset is demonstrated in two applications: (1) evaluating the performance of segmentation algorithms and (2) measuring probability distributions associated with Gestalt grouping factors as well as statistics of image region properties

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