What is “semantic segmentation” compared to “segmentation” and “scene labeling”?

“segmentation” is a partition of an image into several “coherent” parts, but without any attempt at understanding what these parts represent. One of the most famous works (but definitely not the first) is Shi and Malik “Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation” PAMI 2000. These works attempt to define “coherence” in terms of low-level cues such … Read more