Image Segmentation Based on Deep Learning:A Survey
Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision and its main purpose is to extract meaningful and cohe-rent regions from the image input.Over the years,a wide variety oftechniques have been developed in the field of image segmenta-tion,including those based on traditional methods,as well as more recent image segmentation techniques utilizing convolutional neural networks.With the development of deep learning,more deep learning algorithms have been applied to image segmentation tasks.In particular,there has been a surge of scholarly interest in deep learning over the past two years,and many deep learning algorithms have emerged for image segmentation tasks.However,most of the new algorithms have not been summarized or ana-lyzed,which will hinder the progress of subsequent research.This paper provides a comprehensive review of literatures on deep learning-based image segmentation research published in the past two years.First,it briefly introduces common datasets for image segmentation.Next,it clarifies new classifications for image segmentation based on deep learning.Finally,the existing challenges are discussed and the future research directions are prospected.