SOGNet: Scene Overlap Graph Network for Panoptic Segmentation

Understand

The panoptic segmentation task requires a unified result from semantic and instance segmentation outputs that may contain overlaps.

• However, current studies widely ignore modeling overlaps.
• In this study, we aim to model overlap relations among instances and resolve them for panoptic segmentation.
• Inspired by scene graph representation, we formulate the overlapping problem as a simplified case, named scene overlap graph.