{"url":"/dataset/segrcdb","name":"SegRCDB","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"Pre-training is a strong strategy for enhancing visual models to efficiently train them with a limited number of labeled images. In semantic segmentation, creating annotation masks requires an intensive amount of labor and time, and therefore, a large-scale pre-training dataset with semantic labels is quite difficult to construct. Moreover, what matters in semantic segmentation pre-training has not been fully investigated. In this paper, we propose the Segmentation Radial Contour DataBase (SegRCDB), which for the first time applies formula-driven supervised learning for semantic segmentation. SegRCDB enables pre-training for semantic segmentation without real images or any manual semantic labels. SegRCDB is based on insights about what is important in pre-training for semantic segmentation and allows efficient pre-training. Pre-training with SegRCDB achieved higher mIoU than the pre-training with COCO-Stuff for fine-tuning on ADE-20k and Cityscapes with the same number of training images. SegRCDB has a high potential to contribute to semantic segmentation pre-training and investigation by enabling the creation of large datasets without manual annotation. The SegRCDB dataset will be released under a license that allows research and commercial use. Code is available at: https://github.com/dahlian00/SegRCDB","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/dahlian00/SegRCDB","introduced_date":"2023-09-29","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/segrcdb-semantic-segmentation-via-formula-1","title":"SegRCDB: Semantic Segmentation via Formula-Driven Supervised Learning","first_author":"Risa Shinoda","url":null},"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[{"name":"Semantic Segmentation","url":"/task/semantic-segmentation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/semantic-segmentation"},{"name":"2D Semantic Segmentation","url":"/task/2d-semantic-segmentation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/2d-semantic-segmentation"},{"name":"Segmentation","url":"/task/segmentation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/segmentation"}],"languages":[],"variants":["SegRCDB"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":2,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}