The 2005 PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2006Open access
Mark Everingham, Andrew Zisserman, Christopher K. I. Williams, Luc Van Gool, Moray Allan, Chris Bishop
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This chapter provides details of the datasets, algorithms used by the teams, evaluation criteria, and results achieved in the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge.
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