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 Please contact William Laprade wl@di.ku.dk with issues and feedback.
 
+If you end up using the tool for research please cite the developers' original paper: [Sparse layered graphs for multi-object segmentation.](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/papers/Jeppesen_Sparse_Layered_Graphs_for_Multi-Object_Segmentation_CVPR_2020_paper.pdf).
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 For inspiration, check out the following papers on user cases we have solved with the layered surfaces tool:
 
 - Dahl, Dahl, Larsen. [Surface Detection using Round Cut.](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7182720) International Conference on 3D Vision, 2014.