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This work presents an unsupervised and semi-automatic image segmentation approach where we formulate the segmentation as a inference problem based on unary and pairwise assignment probabilities computed using low-level image cues. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ayelet Heimowitz , Yosi Keller

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at grouping different semantic patterns in an image without the use of human annotation. Similarly, image clustering searches for groupings of images based on their semantic content without supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Isaac Wasserman , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

This paper describes a novel method for partitioning image into meaningful segments. The proposed method employs watershed transform, a well-known image segmentation technique. Along with that, it uses various auxiliary schemes such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Ankit R. Chadha , Neha S. Satam

Image segmentation is one of the most fundamental tasks of computer vision. In many practical applications, it is essential to properly evaluate the reliability of individual segmentation results. In this study, we propose a novel framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Kosuke Tanizaki , Noriaki Hashimoto , Yu Inatsu , Hidekata Hontani , Ichiro Takeuchi

We propose a novel abstraction of the image segmentation task in the form of a combinatorial optimization problem that we call the multi-separator problem. Feasible solutions indicate for every pixel whether it belongs to a segment or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jannik Irmai , Shengxian Zhao , Jannik Presberger , Bjoern Andres

Segmentation-based tracking has been actively studied in computer vision and multimedia. Superpixel based object segmentation and tracking methods are usually developed for this task. However, they independently perform feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Bo Jiang , Panpan Zhang , Lili Huang

The segmentation of transparent objects can be very useful in computer vision applications. However, because they borrow texture from their background and have a similar appearance to their surroundings, transparent objects are not handled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Yichao Xu , Hajime Nagahara , Atsushi Shimada , Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

Imaging the atmosphere using ground-based sky cameras is a popular approach to study various atmospheric phenomena. However, it usually focuses on the daytime. Nighttime sky/cloud images are darker and noisier, and thus harder to analyze.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Soumyabrata Dev , Florian M. Savoy , Yee Hui Lee , Stefan Winkler

How to make a segmentation model efficiently adapt to a specific video and to online target appearance variations are fundamentally crucial issues in the field of video object segmentation. In this work, a graph memory network is developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Xiankai Lu , Wenguan Wang , Martin Danelljan , Tianfei Zhou , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool

We segment moving objects in videos by ranking spatio-temporal segment proposals according to "moving objectness": how likely they are to contain a moving object. In each video frame, we compute segment proposals using multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Katerina Fragkiadaki , Pablo Arbelaez , Panna Felsen , Jitendra Malik

In the paper a piecewise constant image approximations of sequential number of pixel clusters or segments are treated. A majorizing of optimal approximation sequence by hierarchical sequence of image approximations is studied. Transition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-03 M. Kharinov

Spectral graph theory is well known and widely used in computer vision. In this paper, we analyze image segmentation algorithms that are based on spectral graph theory, e.g., normalized cut, and show that there is a natural connection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Chengxi Ye , Yuxu Lin , Mingli Song , Chun Chen , David W. Jacobs

In this paper, we propose a simple but effective method for fast image segmentation. We re-examine the locality-preserving character of spectral clustering by constructing a graph over image regions with both global and local connections.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Zizhao Zhang , Fuyong Xing , Hanzi Wang , Yan Yan , Ying Huang , Xiaoshuang Shi , Lin Yang

We introduce a novel semi-supervised video segmentation approach based on an efficient video representation, called as "super-trajectory". Each super-trajectory corresponds to a group of compact trajectories that exhibit consistent motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Wenguan Wang , Jianbing Shen , Jianwen Xie , Fatih Porikli

This paper presents a methodology for image classification using Graph Neural Network (GNN) models. We transform the input images into region adjacency graphs (RAGs), in which regions are superpixels and edges connect neighboring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Pedro H. C. Avelar , Anderson R. Tavares , Thiago L. T. da Silveira , Cláudio R. Jung , Luís C. Lamb

Superpixels have become very popular in many computer vision applications. Nevertheless, they remain underexploited since the superpixel decomposition may produce irregular and non stable segmentation results due to the dependency to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Rémi Giraud , Vinh-Thong Ta , Aurélie Bugeau , Pierrick Coupé , Nicolas Papadakis

With the growing deployment of autonomous driving agents, the detection and segmentation of road obstacles have become critical to ensure safe autonomous navigation. However, existing road-obstacle segmentation methods are applied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shyam Nandan Rai , Shyamgopal Karthik , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone , Zeynep Akata

A wide range of techniques can be considered for segmentation of images of nanostructured surfaces. Manually segmenting these images is time-consuming and results in a user-dependent segmentation bias, while there is currently no consensus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Steff Farley , Jo E. A. Hodgkinson , Oliver M. Gordon , Joanna Turner , Andrea Soltoggio , Philip J. Moriarty , Eugenie Hunsicker

Optimal surface segmentation is a state-of-the-art method used for segmentation of multiple globally optimal surfaces in volumetric datasets. The method is widely used in numerous medical image segmentation applications. However, nodes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Abhay Shah , Michael D. Abramoff , Xiaodong Wu

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart