README.txt

This code is to implement contour-guided color palette segmentation method described in: 
"Robust Image Segmentation Using Contour-guided Color Palettes" by Xiang Fu, Chien-Yi Wang, Chen Chen, Changhu Wang and C.-C. Jay Kuo, in ICCV 2015.
It is written in MATLAB, and has been tested under 64-bit Windows, linux and Mac OSX.

To produce contour-guided color palette segmentation result and run "CCP_segmentation.m", you need three toolboxes that are already in the folder.

1. Structured Edge Detection
   P. Doll\'ar and C. Zitnick, "Structured Forests for Fast Edge Detection", ICCV 2013.
   http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/389109f6-b4e8-404c-84bf-239f7cbf4e3d/
   https://github.com/pdollar/toolbox

2. Piotr's Computer Vision Matlab Toolbox
   Piotr Doll\'ar, "Piotr's Computer Vision Matlab Toolbox (PMT)"
   http://vision.ucsd.edu/~pdollar/toolbox/doc/index.html
   https://github.com/pdollar/edges

3. MATLAB and Octave Functions for Computer Vision and Image Processing
   Peter Kovesi
   http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~pk/research/matlabfns/

If you use this code in a publication, I would be grateful if you cite our paper.
For any question, please contact us via the E-mail: xiangfu AT usc DOT edu or fuxiang87 AT gmail DOT com.

September 12, 2015