Background readings:
J. Shotton, M. Johnson, and R. Cipolla, "Semantic texton forests for image categorization and segmentation," in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008. CVPR 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587503
Contemporary readings:
Y. Yang, S. Hallman, D. Ramanan, and C. Fowlkes, "Layered Object Detection for Multi-Class Segmentation", CVPR 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540070
F. Li, J. Carreira and C. Sminchisescu, "Object Recognition as Ranking Holistic Figure-Ground Hypotheses", CVPR 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2010.5539839
B. Alexe, T. Deselaers, V. Ferrari, "What is an object?", CVPR 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540226 [Jon Long]
B. Packer, S. Gould, and D. Koller, "A Unified Contour-Pixel Model for Figure-Ground Segmentation", ECCV 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15555-0_25
I. Endres and D. Hoiem, "Category Independent Object Proposals", ECCV 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15555-0_42 [Jon Long]