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Edge detection remains a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, especially under varying illumination, noise, and complex scene conditions. This paper introduces a Hybrid Multi-Stage Learning Framework that integrates…

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Detecting local features, such as corners, segments or blobs, is the first step in the pipeline of many Computer Vision applications. Its speed is crucial for real-time applications. In this paper we present ELSED, the fastest line segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Iago Suárez , José M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela

The ability to detect edges is a fundamental attribute necessary to truly capture visual concepts. In this paper, we prove that edges cannot be represented properly in the first convolutional layer of a neural network, and further show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Minh Le , Subhradeep Kayal

Image recognition is the need of the hour. In order to be able to recognize an image, it is of immense importance that the image should be distinguishable from the background. In the present work, an approach is presented for automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Vivek Kumar , Sumit Pandey , Amrindra Pal , Sandeep Sharma

Edge detection is among the most fundamental vision problems for its role in perceptual grouping and its wide applications. Recent advances in representation learning have led to considerable improvements in this area. Many state of the art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Zhiding Yu , Weiyang Liu , Yang Zou , Chen Feng , Srikumar Ramalingam , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar , Jan Kautz

Semantic boundary and edge detection aims at simultaneously detecting object edge pixels in images and assigning class labels to them. Systematic training of predictors for this task requires the labeling of edges in images which is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jing Yu Koh , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexander Binder

Edge detection is a fundamental technique in various computer vision tasks. Edges are indeed effectively delineated by pixel discontinuity and can offer reliable structural information even in textureless areas. State-of-the-art heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Leng Kai , Zhang Zhijie , Liu Jie , Zed Boukhers , Sui Wei , Cong Yang , Li Zhijun

In this work we introduce Natural Segmentation and Matching (NSM), an algorithm for reliable localization, using laser, in both urban and natural environments. Current state-of-the-art global approaches do not generalize well to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Georgi Tinchev , Simona Nobili , Maurice Fallon

Decision trees and random forest remain highly competitive for classification on medium-sized, standard datasets due to their robustness, minimal preprocessing requirements, and interpretability. However, a single tree suffers from high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Cencheng Shen , Yuexiao Dong , Carey E. Priebe

Edge detection is a fundamental problem in different computer vision tasks. Recently, edge detection algorithms achieve satisfying improvement built upon deep learning. Although most of them report favorable evaluation scores, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Luyan Liu , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Edge detection is typically viewed as a pixel-level classification problem mainly addressed by discriminative methods. Recently, generative edge detection methods, especially diffusion model based solutions, are initialized in the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Caixia Zhou , Yaping Huang , Mochu Xiang , Jiahui Ren , Haibin Ling , Jing Zhang

Image semantic segmentation technology is one of the key technologies for intelligent systems to understand natural scenes. As one of the important research directions in the field of visual intelligence, this technology has broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Junjun Wu , Huiyu Kuang , Qinghua Lu , Zeqin Lin , Qingwu Shi , Xilin Liu , Xiaoman Zhu

Detecting edges is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many applications, some involving very noisy images. While most edge detection methods are fast, they perform well only on relatively clean images. Indeed, edges in such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Nati Ofir , Meirav Galun , Boaz Nadler , Ronen Basri

Boundary detection is essential for a variety of computer vision tasks such as segmentation and recognition. In this paper we propose a unified formulation and a novel algorithm that are applicable to the detection of different types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Marius Leordeanu , Rahul Sukthankar , Cristian Sminchisescu

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have proven to be efficient analysis tools for processing point clouds, e.g., for reconstruction, segmentation and classification. In this paper, we focus on the classification of edges…

In this paper, we present a new approach to learning cascaded classifiers for use in computing environments that involve networks of heterogeneous and resource-constrained, low-power embedded compute and sensing nodes. We present a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-27 Hamid Dadkhahi , Benjamin M. Marlin

Many edge prediction methods have been proposed, based on various local or global properties of the structure of an incomplete network. Community structure is another significant feature of networks: Vertices in a community are more densely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

This paper presents an autonomous approach to tree detection and segmentation in high resolution airborne LiDAR that utilises state-of-the-art region-based CNN and 3D-CNN deep learning algorithms. If the number of training examples for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lloyd Windrim , Mitch Bryson

<<<This is a pre-acceptance version, please, go through Pattern Recognition Journal on Sciencedirect to read the final version>>>. Edge detection is the basis of many computer vision applications. State of the art predominantly relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xavier Soria , Angel Sappa , Patricio Humanante , Arash Akbarinia

Fast and accurate video object recognition, which relies on frame-by-frame video analytics, remains a challenge for resource-constrained devices such as traffic cameras. Recent advances in mobile edge computing have made it possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kun Guo , Yun Shen , Xijun Wang , Chaoqun You , Yun Rui , Tony Q. S. Quek