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We consider the problem of segmenting an image into superpixels in the context of $k$-means clustering, in which we wish to decompose an image into local, homogeneous regions corresponding to the underlying objects. Our novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Jianchao Zhang , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Daniel Heydecker , Xiaosheng Zhuang , Raymond Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Spectral Clustering is one of the most traditional methods to solve segmentation problems. Based on Normalized Cuts, it aims at partitioning an image using an objective function defined by a graph. Despite their mathematical attractiveness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Rahul Palnitkar , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

We study further Mumford's notion of local semistability and, in particular, show that semistable singularities are log canonical under mild assumptions. We provide many new examples of semistable and unstable singularities. More generally,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Linquan Ma , Ilya Smirnov

We present an optimal strategy having finite outcomes for estimating a single parameter of the displacement operator on an arbitrary finite dimensional system using a finite number of identical samples. Assuming the uniform {\it a priori}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Sasaki , A. Carlini , A. Chefles

Image segmentation is an important task in the domain of computer vision and medical imaging. In natural and medical images, intensity inhomogeneity, i.e. the varying image intensity, occurs often and it poses considerable challenges for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-04 Raymond Chan , Hongfei Yang , Tieyong Zeng

This paper presents a novel strategy for high-fidelity image restoration by characterizing both local smoothness and nonlocal self-similarity of natural images in a unified statistical manner. The main contributions are three-folds. First,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Jian Zhang , Debin Zhao , Ruiqin Xiong , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

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

In recent years, video semantic segmentation has made great progress with advanced deep neural networks. However, there still exist two main challenges \ie, information inconsistency and computation cost. To deal with the two difficulties,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jinming Su , Ruihong Yin , Shuaibin Zhang , Junfeng Luo

Texture segmentation constitutes a standard image processing task, crucial to many applications. The present contribution focuses on the particular subset of scale-free textures and its originality resides in the combination of three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Nelly Pustelnik , Herwig Wendt , Patrice Abry , Nicolas Dobigeon

The Mumford-Shah (MS) model is an important technique for mesh segmentation. Many existing researches focus on piecewise constant MS mesh segmentation model with total variation regularization, which pursue the shortest length of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Huayan Zhang , Shanqiang Wang , Xiaochao Wang

The curvature regularities are well-known for providing strong priors in the continuity of edges, which have been applied to a wide range of applications in image processing and computer vision. However, these models are usually non-convex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Qiuxiang Zhong , Ke Yin , Yuping Duan

We consider the least-squares regression problem and provide a detailed asymptotic analysis of the performance of averaged constant-step-size stochastic gradient descent (a.k.a. least-mean-squares). In the strongly-convex case, we provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Alexandre Défossez , Francis Bach

This paper attempts to undertake the study of segmentation image techniques by using five threshold methods as Mean method, P-tile method, Histogram Dependent Technique (HDT), Edge Maximization Technique (EMT) and visual Technique and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-05-24 Salem Saleh Al-amri , N. V. Kalyankar , Khamitkar S. D.

Image segmentation refers to the separation of objects from the background, and has been one of the most challenging aspects of digital image processing. Practically it is impossible to design a segmentation algorithm which has 100%…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Asra Aslam , Ekram Khan , Mohammad Samar Ansari , M. M. Sufyan Beg

Segmentation of microscopy images constitutes an ill-posed inverse problem due to measurement noise, weak object boundaries, and limited labeled data. Although deep neural networks provide flexible nonparametric estimators, unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Seema K. Poudel , Sunny K. Khadka

Image segmentation is a fundamental research topic in image processing and computer vision. In the last decades, researchers developed a large number of segmentation algorithms for various applications. Amongst these algorithms, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Faqiang Wang , Cuicui Zhao , Jun Liu , Haiyang Huang

In computer vision, image segmentation is always selected as a major research topic by researchers. Due to its vital rule in image processing, there always arises the need of a better image segmentation method. Clustering is an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Dibya Jyoti Bora , Anil Kumar Gupta

Estimates of image gradients play a ubiquitous role in image segmentation and classification problems since gradients directly relate to the boundaries or the edges of a scene. This paper proposes an unified approach to gradient estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Anish Acharya , Uddipan Mukherjee , Charless Fowlkes

Semantic segmentation is a critical task in computer vision aiming to identify and classify individual pixels in an image, with numerous applications in for example autonomous driving and medical image analysis. However, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Halil Ibrahim Aysel , Xiaohao Cai , Adam Prügel-Bennett

Object detection or localization is an incremental step in progression from coarse to fine digital image inference. It not only provides the classes of the image objects, but also provides the location of the image objects which have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Abdul Mueed Hafiz , Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat