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Being able to learn dense semantic representations of images without supervision is an important problem in computer vision. However, despite its significance, this problem remains rather unexplored, with a few exceptions that considered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Luc Van Gool

Semantic segmentation consists of predicting a semantic label for each image pixel. While existing deep learning approaches achieve high accuracy, they often overlook the ordinal relationships between classes, which can provide critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ricardo P. M. Cruz , Rafael Cristino , Jaime S. Cardoso

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a label to each pixel in the image.In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have been driving advances in multiple tasks related to cognition. Although, DCNNs have resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aditya Ganeshan

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

The deficiency of segmentation labels is one of the main obstacles to semantic segmentation in the wild. To alleviate this issue, we present a novel framework that generates segmentation labels of images given their image-level class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jiwoon Ahn , Suha Kwak

In this paper, we focus on the challenging multicategory instance segmentation problem in remote sensing images (RSIs), which aims at predicting the categories of all instances and localizing them with pixel-level masks. Although many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tianyang Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Peng Zhu , Xu Tang , Chen Li , Licheng Jiao , Huiyu Zhou

As a fundamental and extensively studied task in computer vision, image segmentation aims to locate and identify different semantic concepts at the pixel level. Recently, inspired by In-Context Learning (ICL), several generalist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wei Suo , Lanqing Lai , Mengyang Sun , Hanwang Zhang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

In this paper we introduce a novel method for segmentation that can benefit from general semantics of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our segmentation proposes visually and semantically coherent image segments. We use binary encoding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Hossein Mousavi , Moin Nabi , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

This work proposed a novel learning objective to train a deep neural network to perform end-to-end image pixel clustering. We applied the approach to instance segmentation, which is at the intersection of image semantic segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zheng Xu , Zsolt Kira , Jiawei Huang

Instance segmentation is a computer vision task where separate objects in an image are detected and segmented. State-of-the-art deep neural network models require large amounts of labeled data in order to perform well in this task. Making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Tuomas Sormunen , Arttu Lämsä , Miguel Bordallo Lopez

Current successful approaches for generic (non-semantic) segmentation rely mostly on edge detection and have leveraged the strengths of deep learning mainly by improving the edge detection stage in the algorithmic pipeline. This is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Or Isaacs , Oran Shayer , Michael Lindenbaum

The rapid development of deep learning has made a great progress in image segmentation, one of the fundamental tasks of computer vision. However, the current segmentation algorithms mostly rely on the availability of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Wei Shen , Zelin Peng , Xuehui Wang , Huayu Wang , Jiazhong Cen , Dongsheng Jiang , Lingxi Xie , Xiaokang Yang , Qi Tian

Compared with expensive pixel-wise annotations, image-level labels make it possible to learn semantic segmentation in a weakly-supervised manner. Within this pipeline, the class activation map (CAM) is obtained and further processed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Yicong Hong , Nick Barnes

Co-occurrent visual pattern makes aggregating contextual information a common paradigm to enhance the pixel representation for semantic image segmentation. The existing approaches focus on modeling the context from the perspective of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Zhenchao Jin , Bin Liu , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Convolutional networks are powerful visual models that yield hierarchies of features. We show that convolutional networks by themselves, trained end-to-end, pixels-to-pixels, improve on the previous best result in semantic segmentation. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Evan Shelhamer , Jonathan Long , Trevor Darrell

We propose a method for unsupervised video object segmentation by transferring the knowledge encapsulated in image-based instance embedding networks. The instance embedding network produces an embedding vector for each pixel that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Siyang Li , Bryan Seybold , Alexey Vorobyov , Alireza Fathi , Qin Huang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Since the fully convolutional network has achieved great success in semantic segmentation, lots of works have been proposed focusing on extracting discriminative pixel feature representations. However, we observe that existing methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Dongyue Wu , Zilin Guo , Aoyan Li , Changqian Yu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Instance segmentation is an advanced form of image segmentation which, beyond traditional segmentation, requires identifying individual instances of repeating objects in a scene. Mask R-CNN is the most common architecture for instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Jawad Haidar , Marc Mouawad , Imad Elhajj , Daniel Asmar

We propose an end-to-end learning framework for generating foreground object segmentations. Given a single novel image, our approach produces pixel-level masks for all "object-like" regions---even for object categories never seen during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Suyog Dutt Jain , Bo Xiong , Kristen Grauman