<p class="first" id="d3554735e71">Image segmentation is a key task in computer vision
and image processing with important
applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception,
video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among others, and numerous
segmentation algorithms are found in the literature. Against this backdrop, the broad
success of deep learning (DL) has prompted the development of new image segmentation
approaches leveraging DL models. We provide a comprehensive review of this recent
literature, covering the spectrum of pioneering efforts in semantic and instance segmentation,
including convolutional pixel-labeling networks, encoder-decoder architectures, multiscale
and pyramid-based approaches, recurrent networks, visual attention models, and generative
models in adversarial settings. We investigate the relationships, strengths, and challenges
of these DL-based segmentation models, examine the widely used datasets, compare performances,
and discuss promising research directions.
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