A 2017-era graveyard of semantic segmentation papers
A sprawling, unmaintained list of deep learning segmentation papers and datasets that predates the transformer revolution.

What it does This repository collects links to semantic segmentation papers (mostly 2017–2019), dataset URLs, and a handful of survey resources. It also claims “some implementation of semantic segmantation for DL model,” though the README is overwhelmingly a bibliography with paper links and occasional code references.
The interesting bit The dataset list is almost comically comprehensive—spanning from PASCAL VOC to liver tumor segmentation to “Data from Games”—making it a decent starting point for hunting down niche training data. The single embedded image, a “Dataset importance plot” from an external domain, hints at ambitions of analysis that the rest of the repo doesn’t deliver.
Key highlights
- Heavy focus on 2017–2019 CVPR/ICCV/ECCV papers (DeepLab v3/v4, ICNet, SegNet era)
- Extensive dataset index: 25+ sources including medical, autonomous driving, and scene parsing
- Links to survey papers and two live demos (CRF-as-RNN, SegNet)
- Sparse “Resources” and “Survey papers” sections with minimal curation
- Jupyter Notebook language tag suggests some implementations exist, but README doesn’t surface them clearly
Caveats
- README is truncated mid-paper-list in both provided sources, so completeness is unclear
- Many paper entries are just titles with links; no summaries, no reproduction notes
- “Some implementation” claim is vague—actual code location and quality are unspecified
- Effectively frozen in pre-transformer, pre-SAM archaeology; nothing from 2020 onward
Verdict Worth a bookmark if you’re doing historical research or need a quick dataset directory for legacy methods. Skip it if you want working code, modern architectures, or curated guidance—this is a link dump with delusions of grandeur.