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We present a novel confidence refinement scheme that enhances pseudo labels in semi-supervised semantic segmentation. Unlike existing methods, which filter pixels with low-confidence predictions in isolation, our approach leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Moshe Kimhi , Shai Kimhi , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Or Litany , Chaim Baskin

Context is essential for semantic segmentation. Due to the diverse shapes of objects and their complex layout in various scene images, the spatial scales and shapes of contexts for different objects have very large variation. It is thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Henghui Ding , Xudong Jiang , Bing Shuai , Ai Qun Liu , Gang Wang

Fully Convolution Networks (FCN) have achieved great success in dense prediction tasks including semantic segmentation. In this paper, we start from discussing FCN by understanding its architecture limitations in building a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Bing Shuai , Ting Liu , Gang Wang

Semantic segmentation has made significant strides in pixel-level image understanding, yet it remains limited in capturing contextual and semantic relationships between objects. Current models, such as CNN and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ben Rahman

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

We present a technique for adding global context to deep convolutional networks for semantic segmentation. The approach is simple, using the average feature for a layer to augment the features at each location. In addition, we study several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Wei Liu , Andrew Rabinovich , Alexander C. Berg

Recent advances in semantic image segmentation have mostly been achieved by training deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We show how to improve semantic segmentation through the use of contextual information; specifically, we explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen , Anton van dan Hengel , Ian Reid

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

In this work we address the task of semantic image segmentation with Deep Learning and make three main contributions that are experimentally shown to have substantial practical merit. First, we highlight convolution with upsampled filters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Liang-Chieh Chen , George Papandreou , Iasonas Kokkinos , Kevin Murphy , Alan L. Yuille

Semantic segmentation is challenging as it requires both object-level information and pixel-level accuracy. Recently, FCN-based systems gained great improvement in this area. Unlike classification networks, combining features of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Haiming Sun , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

This paper studies the context aggregation problem in semantic image segmentation. The existing researches focus on improving the pixel representations by aggregating the contextual information within individual images. Though impressive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhenchao Jin , Tao Gong , Dongdong Yu , Qi Chu , Jian Wang , Changhu Wang , Jie Shao

Semantic segmentation for aerial imagery is a challenging and important problem in remotely sensed imagery analysis. In recent years, with the success of deep learning, various convolutional neural network (CNN) based models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Panfeng Li , Youzuo Lin , Emily Schultz-Fellenz

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation addresses the challenge of segmenting objects in query images with only a handful of annotated examples. However, many previous state-of-the-art methods either have to discard intricate local semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Mohammad Reza Jahed Motlagh

In this work, we revisit atrous convolution, a powerful tool to explicitly adjust filter's field-of-view as well as control the resolution of feature responses computed by Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, in the application of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Liang-Chieh Chen , George Papandreou , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam

Context-aware compression techniques have gained increasing attention as model sizes continue to grow, introducing computational bottlenecks that hinder efficient deployment. A structured encoding approach was proposed to selectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Barnaby Schmitt , Alistair Grosvenor , Matthias Cunningham , Clementine Walsh , Julius Pembrokeshire , Jonathan Teel

The encoder-decoder architecture is widely used as a lightweight semantic segmentation network. However, it struggles with a limited performance compared to a well-designed Dilated-FCN model for two major problems. First, commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jiangyun Li , Sen Zha , Chen Chen , Meng Ding , Tianxiang Zhang , Hong Yu

Exploring contextual information in convolution neural networks (CNNs) has gained substantial attention in recent years for semantic segmentation. This paper introduces a Bi-directional Contextual Aggregating Network, called BiCANet, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Quan Zhou , Dechun Cong , Bin Kang , Xiaofu Wu , Baoyu Zheng , Huimin Lu , Longin Jan Latecki

Deep learning has successfully been leveraged for medical image segmentation. It employs convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn distinctive image features from a defined pixel-wise objective function. However, this approach can lead…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Kibrom Berihu Girum , Gilles Créhange , Alain Lalande

Models for semantic segmentation require a large amount of hand-labeled training data which is costly and time-consuming to produce. For this purpose, we present a label fusion framework that is capable of improving semantic pixel labels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Florian Fervers , Timo Breuer , Gregor Stachowiak , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

Recent advances in deep learning, especially deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to significant improvement over previous semantic segmentation systems. Here we show how to improve pixel-wise semantic segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Panqu Wang , Pengfei Chen , Ye Yuan , Ding Liu , Zehua Huang , Xiaodi Hou , Garrison Cottrell