Table 1.

Results of several contour detection algorithms on BSDS300/500.

Method			F(BSDS300)	AP(BSDS300)	F(BSDS500)	AP(BSDS300)
		Human	0.79	-	0.80	-
Machine learning	Shallow	Pb	0.63	-	0.67	-
		BEL	0.65	-	0.61	-
	Deep	gPb	0.70	0.66	0.71	0.65
		Deep Edge	-	-	0.75	0.80
		HED	-	-	0.78	0.83
Low-level features	Classical edge detection	Canny	0.58	0.58	0.61	0.58
		Normalised Cuts	0.62	0.42	0.63	0.45
	Biological	SCO	0.66	0.70	0.67	0.71
		MCI	0.62	-	0.64	-
		Ours	0.68	0.70	0.70	0.74