Mask R-CNN: Instance Segmentation with Pixel-Level Masks

Mask R-CNN is a deep learning framework for instance segmentation introduced by Kaiming He, Georgia Gkioxari, Piotr Dollár, and Ross Girshick at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in 2017. It extends Faster R-CNN by adding a parallel branch that predicts a binary pixel-level mask for each detected object instance, enabling simultaneous object detection, classification, and fine-grained segmentation in a single forward pass.