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In this paper we present an unconventional image segmentation approach which is devised to meet the requirements of image understanding and pattern recognition tasks. Generally image understanding assumes interplay of two sub-processes:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emanuel Diamant

Image segmentation is usually addressed by training a model for a fixed set of object classes. Incorporating additional classes or more complex queries later is expensive as it requires re-training the model on a dataset that encompasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Timo Lüddecke , Alexander S. Ecker

We present a systematic study on a new task called dichotomous image segmentation (DIS) , which aims to segment highly accurate objects from natural images. To this end, we collected the first large-scale DIS dataset, called DIS5K, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xuebin Qin , Hang Dai , Xiaobin Hu , Deng-Ping Fan , Ling Shao , Luc Van Gool

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in extracting important objects of interest from images, enabling various applications. While existing methods have shown success in segmenting clean images, they often struggle to produce accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Han Zhang , Daoping Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Image retargeting, which resizes images to one with a prescribed aspect ratio by determining an optimal warping map, has gained substantial interest in imaging science. Despite significant advances, existing methods often fail to ensure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Chengyang Liu , Michael K. Ng

Medical image segmentation, the task of partitioning an image into meaningful parts, is an important step toward automating medical image analysis and is at the crux of a variety of medical imaging applications, such as computer aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Masoud S. Nosrati , Ghassan Hamarneh

Computer Vision is growing day by day in terms of user specific applications. The first step of any such application is segmenting an image. In this paper, we propose a novel and grass-root level image segmentation algorithm for cases in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Viraj Mavani , Ayesha Gurnani , Jhanvi Shah

One of the key points in designing an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system using computational imaging is the division size of imaging pixels. If the size is too small, it leads to a high number of pixels that need processing.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Xin Tong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Yu Ge , Henk Wymeersch

We describe an approach for segmenting an image into regions that correspond to surfaces in the scene that are partially surrounded by the medium. It integrates both appearance and motion statistics into a cost functional, that is seeded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-23 Alper Ayvaci , Stefano Soatto

Motion segmentation is currently an active area of research in computer Vision. The task of comparing different methods of motion segmentation is complicated by the fact that researchers may use subtly different definitions of the problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Pia Bideau , Erik Learned-Miller

In statistical modeling area, the Akaike information criterion AIC, is a widely known and extensively used tool for model choice. The {\phi}-divergence test statistic is a recently developed tool for statistical model selection. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-10-28 Papa Ngom , Bertrand Ntep

The segmentation of digital images is one of the essential steps in image processing or a computer vision system. It helps in separating the pixels into different regions according to their intensity level. A large number of segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Amit Gurung , Sangyal Lama Tamang

Image segmentation has been a very active research topic in image analysis area. Currently, most of the image segmentation algorithms are designed based on the idea that images are partitioned into a set of regions preserving homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Yu Su , Margaret H. Dunham

In image processing, a segmentation is a process of partitioning an image into multiple sets of pixels, that are defined as super-pixels. Each super-pixel is characterized by a label or parameter. Here, we are proposing a method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

We propose a new approach to interactive image segmentation based on some properties of a family of quadratic optimization problems related to dominant sets, a well-known graph-theoretic notion of a cluster which generalizes the concept of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Eyasu Zemene , Marcello Pelillo

Although supervised deep-learning has achieved promising performance in medical image segmentation, many methods cannot generalize well on unseen data, limiting their real-world applicability. To address this problem, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Shangqi Gao , Hangqi Zhou , Yibo Gao , Xiahai Zhuang

Images can be segmented by first using a classifier to predict an affinity graph that reflects the degree to which image pixels must be grouped together and then partitioning the graph to yield a segmentation. Machine learning has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-12-01 Srinivas C. Turaga , Kevin L. Briggman , Moritz Helmstaedter , Winfried Denk , H. Sebastian Seung

Image segmentation has come a long way since the early days of computer vision, and still remains a challenging task. Modern variations of the classical (purely bottom-up) approach, involve, e.g., some form of user assistance (interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Eyasu Zemene , Leulseged Tesfaye Alemu , Marcello Pelillo

Geodesic models are known as an efficient tool for solving various image segmentation problems. Most of existing approaches only exploit local pointwise image features to track geodesic paths for delineating the objective boundaries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Li Liu , Da Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

Image semantic segmentation aims at the pixel-level classification of images, which has requirements for both accuracy and speed in practical application. Existing semantic segmentation methods mainly rely on the high-resolution input to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Tianjiao Jiang , Yi Jin , Tengfei Liang , Xu Wang , Yidong Li