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Many machine vision applications, such as semantic segmentation and depth prediction, require predictions for every pixel of the input image. Models for such problems usually consist of encoders which decrease spatial resolution while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Zbigniew Wojna , Vittorio Ferrari , Sergio Guadarrama , Nathan Silberman , Liang-Chieh Chen , Alireza Fathi , Jasper Uijlings

Vision and language tasks such as Visual Relation Detection and Visual Question Answering benefit from semantic features that afford proper grounding of language. The 3D depth of objects depicted in 2D images is one such feature. However it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Stefan Cassar , Adrian Muscat , Dylan Seychell

We explore semantic correspondence estimation through the lens of unsupervised learning. We thoroughly evaluate several recently proposed unsupervised methods across multiple challenging datasets using a standardized evaluation protocol…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Mehmet Aygün , Oisin Mac Aodha

Correspondence identifies relationships among objects via similarities among their components; it is ubiquitous in the analysis of spatial datasets, including images, weather maps, and computational simulations. This paper develops a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Chris Bailey-Kellogg , Naren Ramakrishnan

Semantic image segmentation is a fundamental task in image understanding. Per-pixel semantic labelling of an image benefits greatly from the ability to consider region consistency both locally and globally. However, many Fully Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have received increasing attention over the last few years. They were initially conceived for image categorization, i.e., the problem of assigning a semantic label to an entire input image. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Emmanuel Maggiori , Yuliya Tarabalka , Guillaume Charpiat , Pierre Alliez

We present a deep learning framework for accurate visual correspondences and demonstrate its effectiveness for both geometric and semantic matching, spanning across rigid motions to intra-class shape or appearance variations. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Christopher B. Choy , JunYoung Gwak , Silvio Savarese , Manmohan Chandraker

Learning dense correspondences across deformable 3D shapes remains a long-standing challenge due to structural variability, non-isometric deformation, and inconsistent topology. Existing methods typically trade off generalization, geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Soyeon Yoon , Chang Wook Seo , Hyunjung Shim

We present a minimalistic but effective neural network that computes dense facial correspondences in highly unconstrained RGB images. Our network learns a per-pixel flow and a matchability mask between 2D input photographs of a person and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Ronald Yu , Shunsuke Saito , Haoxiang Li , Duygu Ceylan , Hao Li

Finding correspondences is a fundamental and extensively researched problem in computer vision and graphics. In this work, we examine the underexplored task of estimating segmentation-to-segmentation correspondence between images in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Itai Lang , Dongwei Lyu , Dale Decatur , Rana Hanocka

We tackle the task of semantic alignment where the goal is to compute dense semantic correspondence aligning two images depicting objects of the same category. This is a challenging task due to large intra-class variation, changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Ignacio Rocco , Relja Arandjelović , Josef Sivic

Most self-supervised learning (SSL) methods learn continuous visual representations by aligning different views of the same input, offering limited control over how information is structured across representation dimensions. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kawtar Zaher , Ilyass Moummad , Olivier Buisson , Alexis Joly

Recent advances in image-level self-supervised learning (SSL) have made significant progress, yet learning dense representations for patches remains challenging. Mainstream methods encounter an over-dispersion phenomenon that patches from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Peisong Wen , Qianqian Xu , Siran Dai , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

In computer vision pixelwise dense prediction is the task of predicting a label for each pixel in the image. Convolutional neural networks achieve good performance on this task, while being computationally efficient. In this paper we carry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Tom Sercu , Vaibhava Goel

The goal of this paper is to learn dense 3D shape correspondence for topology-varying objects in an unsupervised manner. Conventional implicit functions estimate the occupancy of a 3D point given a shape latent code. Instead, our novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

Finding image correspondences remains a challenging problem in the presence of intra-class variations and large changes in scene layout. Semantic flow methods are designed to handle images depicting different instances of the same object or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Bumsub Ham , Minsu Cho , Cordelia Schmid , Jean Ponce

In this paper, we address the problem of building dense correspondences between human images under arbitrary camera viewpoints and body poses. Prior art either assumes small motion between frames or relies on local descriptors, which cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Feitong Tan , Danhang Tang , Mingsong Dou , Kaiwen Guo , Rohit Pandey , Cem Keskin , Ruofei Du , Deqing Sun , Sofien Bouaziz , Sean Fanello , Ping Tan , Yinda Zhang

Semantic matching aims to establish pixel-level correspondences between instances of the same category and represents a fundamental task in computer vision. Existing approaches suffer from two limitations: (i) Geometric Ambiguity: Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Songlin Yang , Tianyi Wei , Yushi Lan , Zeqi Xiao , Anyi Rao , Xingang Pan

We consider the problem of establishing dense correspondences within a set of related shapes of strongly varying geometry. For such input, traditional shape matching approaches often produce unsatisfactory results. We propose an ensemble…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Oliver Burghard , Alexander Berner , Michael Wand , Niloy Mitra , Hans-Peter Seidel , Reinhard Klein

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable emergent abilities to perform in-context learning across various tasks, including time series forecasting. This work investigates LLMs' ability to estimate probability density functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Toni J. B. Liu , Nicolas Boullé , Raphaël Sarfati , Christopher J. Earls