segmentation vs. recognition

In What is segmentation-driven object recognition?,
Tomasz finally remarked that the learning-driven segmentation may be a hot topic in the next few years. I totally agree with him. The problem for us is how to design such algorithms to be robust to intra-class variations, scales and pose. This remains a challenging problem in recognition community.

In the comments of this blog, someone suggest to check the most up-to-date segmentation results in PASCAL 2009.