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We are interested in inferring object segmentation by leveraging only object class information, and by considering only minimal priors on the object segmentation task. This problem could be viewed as a kind of weakly supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Ronan Collobert

This paper addresses the problem of natural image segmentation by extracting information from a multi-layer array which is constructed based on color, gradient, and statistical properties of the local neighborhoods in an image. A Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Fariba Zohrizadeh , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Farhad Kamangar

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a class-label to each pixel in an image. We propose a region-based semantic segmentation framework which handles both full and weak supervision, and addresses three common problems: (1) Objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Holger Caesar , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Rapid growth in the field of quantitative digital image analysis is paving the way for researchers to make precise measurements about objects in an image. To compute quantities from the image such as the density of compressed materials or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Marylesa Howard , Margaret C. Hock , B. T. Meehan , Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper

Building a large image dataset with high-quality object masks for semantic segmentation is costly and time consuming. In this paper, we introduce a principled semi-supervised framework that only uses a small set of fully supervised images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Mostafa S. Ibrahim , Arash Vahdat , Mani Ranjbar , William G. Macready

Urban facade segmentation from automatically acquired imagery, in contrast to traditional image segmentation, poses several unique challenges. 360-degree photospheres captured from vehicles are an effective way to capture a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 John Femiani , Wamiq Reyaz Para , Niloy Mitra , Peter Wonka

Semantic segmentation is an important and popular research area in computer vision that focuses on classifying pixels in an image based on their semantics. However, supervised deep learning requires large amounts of data to train models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lingyan Ran , Yali Li , Guoqiang Liang , Yanning Zhang

As constituent parts of image objects, superpixels can improve several higher-level operations. However, image segmentation methods might have their accuracy seriously compromised for reduced numbers of superpixels. We have investigated a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 F. C. Belem , S. J. F. Guimaraes , A. X. Falcao

Over-segmentation of an image into superpixels has become a useful tool for solving various problems in image processing and computer vision. Reflection symmetry is quite prevalent in both natural and man-made objects and is an essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Rajendra Nagar , Shanmuganathan Raman

Medical image segmentation has become an essential technique in clinical and research-oriented applications. Because manual segmentation methods are tedious, and fully automatic segmentation lacks the flexibility of human intervention or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Kevin Karsch , Qing He , Ye Duan

This paper introduces Tree-NET, a novel framework for medical image segmentation that leverages bottleneck feature supervision to enhance both segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency. While previous studies have employed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Orhan Demirci , Bulent Yilmaz

The technology of image segmentation is widely used in medical image processing, face recognition pedestrian detection, etc. The current image segmentation techniques include region-based segmentation, edge detection segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Song Yuheng , Yan Hao

Image segmentation as a clustering problem is to identify pixel groups on an image without any preliminary labels available. It remains a challenge in machine vision because of the variations in size and shape of image segments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xin Zhong , Frank Y. Shih , Xiwang Guo

While there has been significant progress in solving the problems of image pixel labeling, object detection and scene classification, existing approaches normally address them separately. In this paper, we propose to tackle these problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Carlos Herranz-Perdiguero , Carolina Redondo-Cabrera , Roberto J. López-Sastre

We propose a mid-level image segmentation framework that combines multiple figure-ground hypothesis (FG) constrained at different locations and scales, into interpretations that tile the entire image. The problem is cast as optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Joao Carreira , Adrian Ion , Cristian Sminchisescu

Image segmentation is often performed on medical images for identifying diseases in clinical evaluation. Hence it has become one of the major research areas. Conventional image segmentation techniques are unable to provide satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Pratik Kalshetti , Manas Bundele , Parag Rahangdale , Dinesh Jangra , Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay , Gaurav Harit , Abhay Elhence

Semantic segmentation, which aims to classify every pixel in an image, is a key task in machine perception, with many applications across robotics and autonomous driving. Due to the high dimensionality of this task, most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Alex Zihao Zhu , Jieru Mei , Siyuan Qiao , Hang Yan , Yukun Zhu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Henrik Kretzschmar

Superpixels are widely used in computer vision to simplify image representation and reduce computational complexity. While traditional methods rely on low-level features, deep learning-based approaches leverage high-level features but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Julien Walther , Rémi Giraud , Michaël Clément

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

Image classification is an essential part of computer vision which assigns a given input image to a specific category based on the similarity evaluation within given criteria. While promising classifiers can be obtained through deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra