1. This document discusses panoptic segmentation, which aims to perform semantic segmentation and instance segmentation simultaneously.
2. It introduces the panoptic segmentation task format, which assigns each pixel a semantic label and instance ID. It also presents a new evaluation metric called Panoptic Quality (PQ) to evaluate panoptic segmentation.
3. Baseline experiments are discussed that combine existing semantic and instance segmentation models. The results show current machine performance is still below human consistency levels based on a human annotation study. Future work to develop end-to-end panoptic segmentation models is suggested.