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We present an unsupervised visual feature learning algorithm driven by context-based pixel prediction. By analogy with auto-encoders, we propose Context Encoders -- a convolutional neural network trained to generate the contents of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Deepak Pathak , Philipp Krahenbuhl , Jeff Donahue , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Changjian Li

State-of-the-art models for semantic segmentation are based on adaptations of convolutional networks that had originally been designed for image classification. However, dense prediction and image classification are structurally different.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Fisher Yu , Vladlen Koltun

We propose a novel semantic segmentation algorithm by learning a deconvolution network. We learn the network on top of the convolutional layers adopted from VGG 16-layer net. The deconvolution network is composed of deconvolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Hyeonwoo Noh , Seunghoon Hong , Bohyung Han

Prevalent semantic segmentation methods generally adopt a vanilla classifier to categorize each pixel into specific classes. Although such a classifier learns global information from the training data, this information is represented by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Huadong Tang , Youpeng Zhao , Min Xu , Jun Wang , Qiang Wu

Recently semantic parsing in context has received considerable attention, which is challenging since there are complex contextual phenomena. Previous works verified their proposed methods in limited scenarios, which motivates us to conduct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Qian Liu , Bei Chen , Jiaqi Guo , Jian-Guang Lou , Bin Zhou , Dongmei Zhang

We present the first fully convolutional end-to-end solution for instance-aware semantic segmentation task. It inherits all the merits of FCNs for semantic segmentation and instance mask proposal. It performs instance mask prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Yi Li , Haozhi Qi , Jifeng Dai , Xiangyang Ji , Yichen Wei

It is a challenging task to accurately perform semantic segmentation due to the complexity of real picture scenes. Many semantic segmentation methods based on traditional deep learning insufficiently captured the semantic and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Haitong Tang , Shuang He , Mengduo Yang , Xia Lu , Qin Yu , Kaiyue Liu , Hongjie Yan , Nizhuan Wang

Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Semantic segmentation is an important task for numerous applications but it is still quite challenging to achieve advanced performance with limited computational costs. In this paper, we present CGRSeg, an efficient yet competitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhenliang Ni , Xinghao Chen , Yingjie Zhai , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang

State-of-the-art results of semantic segmentation are established by Fully Convolutional neural Networks (FCNs). FCNs rely on cascaded convolutional and pooling layers to gradually enlarge the receptive fields of neurons, resulting in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Zhicheng Yan , Hao Zhang , Yangqing Jia , Thomas Breuel , Yizhou Yu

Spatial pyramid pooling module or encode-decoder structure are used in deep neural networks for semantic segmentation task. The former networks are able to encode multi-scale contextual information by probing the incoming features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Liang-Chieh Chen , Yukun Zhu , George Papandreou , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam

Thanks to the advantages of the friendly annotations and the satisfactory performance, Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) approaches have been extensively studied. Recently, the single-stage WSSS was awakened to alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Chunyan Wang , Dong Zhang , Liyan Zhang , Jinhui Tang

In-context prompting in large language models (LLMs) has become a prevalent approach to improve zero-shot capabilities, but this idea is less explored in the vision domain. Existing visual prompting methods focus on referring segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Feng Li , Qing Jiang , Hao Zhang , Tianhe Ren , Shilong Liu , Xueyan Zou , Huaizhe Xu , Hongyang Li , Chunyuan Li , Jianwei Yang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao

It is well accepted that image segmentation can benefit from utilizing multilevel cues. The paper focuses on utilizing the FCNN-based dense semantic predictions in the bottom-up image segmentation, arguing to take semantic cues into account…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Qiyang Zhao , Lewis D Griffin

To better address challenging issues of the irregularity and inhomogeneity inherently present in 3D point clouds, researchers have been shifting their focus from the design of hand-craft point feature towards the learning of 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Xiang Li , Mingyang Wang , Congcong Wen , Lingjing Wang , Nan Zhou , Yi Fang

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

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task that associates a label with each pixel in an image. Modern approaches tend to introduce class embeddings into semantic segmentation for deeply utilizing category semantics, and regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yuhe Liu , Chuanjian Liu , Kai Han , Quan Tang , Zengchang Qin

Semantic maps are increasingly utilized in areas such as robotics, autonomous systems, and extended reality, motivating the investigation of efficient compression methods that preserve structured semantic information. This paper studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Runyu Yang , Junqi Liao , Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racapé , Ivan V. Bajić

Models based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly improved the performance of semantic segmentation. However, learning these models requires a large amount of training images with pixel-level labels, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang