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Object counting is an important task in computer vision due to its growing demand in applications such as traffic monitoring or surveillance. In this paper, we consider object counting as a learning problem of a joint feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Daniel Oñoro-Rubio , Mathias Niepert , Roberto J. López-Sastre

We investigate the performance of fully convolutional networks to simulate the motion and interaction of surface waves in open and closed complex geometries. We focus on a U-Net architecture and analyse how well it generalises to geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Mario Lino , Chris Cantwell , Stathi Fotiadis , Eduardo Pignatelli , Anil Bharath

Improving the efficiency of current neural networks and modeling them in biological neural systems have become popular research directions in recent years. Pulse-coupled neural network (PCNN) is a well applicated model for imitating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Haoran Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Peng Li , Jiahui Wu , Xin Jiang , Zhuo Zuo , Bingqi Liu

We propose LU-Net -- for LiDAR U-Net, a new method for the semantic segmentation of a 3D LiDAR point cloud. Instead of applying some global 3D segmentation method such as PointNet, we propose an end-to-end architecture for LiDAR point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Pierre Biasutti , Vincent Lepetit , Jean-François Aujol , Mathieu Brédif , Aurélie Bugeau

In this paper, we propose a unified panoptic segmentation network (UPSNet) for tackling the newly proposed panoptic segmentation task. On top of a single backbone residual network, we first design a deformable convolution based semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Yuwen Xiong , Renjie Liao , Hengshuang Zhao , Rui Hu , Min Bai , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Due to the ever-increasing size of data, construction, analysis and mining of universal massive networks are becoming forbidden and meaningless. In this work, we outline a novel framework called CubeNet, which systematically constructs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Carl Yang , Dai Teng , Siyang Liu , Sayantani Basu , Jieyu Zhang , Jiaming Shen , Chao Zhang , Jingbo Shang , Lance Kaplan , Timothy Harratty , Jiawei Han

Structural crack detection is a critical task for public safety as it helps in preventing potential structural failures that could endanger lives. Manual detection by inexperienced personnel can be slow, inconsistent, and prone to human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Subhasis Dasgupta , Jaydip Sen , Tuhina Halder

A neural network architecture is presented that exploits the multilevel properties of high-dimensional parameter-dependent partial differential equations, enabling an efficient approximation of parameter-to-solution maps, rivaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Janina Enrica Schütte , Martin Eigel

The task of multi-person human pose estimation in natural scenes is quite challenging. Existing methods include both top-down and bottom-up approaches. The main advantage of bottom-up methods is its excellent tradeoff between estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Guanghan Ning , Zhihai He

Networks are widely used to model objects with interactions and have enabled various downstream applications. However, in the real world, network mining is often done on particular query sets of objects, which does not require the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Carl Yang , Mengxiong Liu , Frank He , Jian Peng , Jiawei Han

A Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a relatively new classifier and one of the possible successors of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CapsNet maintains the spatial hierarchies between the features and outperforms CNNs at classifying images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

In recent years Deep Learning has brought about a breakthrough in Medical Image Segmentation. U-Net is the most prominent deep network in this regard, which has been the most popular architecture in the medical imaging community. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Sohel Rahman

While current Computer Use Agent (CUA) benchmarks measure task completion effectively, they provide limited assessment of enterprise deployment readiness, emphasizing functional correctness over the operational reliability required for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Horia Cristescu , Charles Park , Trong Canh Nguyen , Sergiu Talmacel , Alexandru-Gabriel Ilie , Stefan Adam

Neural network forms the foundation of deep learning and numerous AI applications. Classical neural networks are fully connected, expensive to train and prone to overfitting. Sparse networks tend to have convoluted structure search,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Weijun Luo

Most semantic segmentation approaches of Hyperspectral images (HSIs) use and require preprocessing steps in the form of patching to accurately classify diversified land cover in remotely sensed images. These approaches use patching to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Nicholas Soucy , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

In recent years, U-Net and its variants have been widely used in pathology image segmentation tasks. One of the key designs of U-Net is the use of skip connections between the encoder and decoder, which helps to recover detailed information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Zongyi Li , Hongbing Lyu , Jun Wang

We introduce an end-to-end learnable technique to robustly identify feature edges in 3D point cloud data. We represent these edges as a collection of parametric curves (i.e.,lines, circles, and B-splines). Accordingly, our deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xiaogang Wang , Yuelang Xu , Kai Xu , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Bin Zhou , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang

U-Nets have been established as a standard architecture for image-to-image learning problems such as segmentation and inverse problems in imaging. For large-scale data, as it for example appears in 3D medical imaging, the U-Net however has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Christian Etmann , Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Deep neural networks are increasingly used on mobile devices, where computational resources are limited. In this paper we develop CondenseNet, a novel network architecture with unprecedented efficiency. It combines dense connectivity with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Gao Huang , Shichen Liu , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Facial landmark localisation in images captured in-the-wild is an important and challenging problem. The current state-of-the-art revolves around certain kinds of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) such as stacked U-Nets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Jia Guo , Jiankang Deng , Niannan Xue , Stefanos Zafeiriou