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Matching local features across images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Targeting towards high accuracy and efficiency, we propose Seeded Graph Matching Network, a graph neural network with sparse structure to reduce redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Hongkai Chen , Zixin Luo , Jiahui Zhang , Lei Zhou , Xuyang Bai , Zeyu Hu , Chiew-Lan Tai , Long Quan

We address a core problem of computer vision: Detection and description of 2D feature points for image matching. For a long time, hand-crafted designs, like the seminal SIFT algorithm, were unsurpassed in accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Stefan Gumhold , Carsten Rother , Eric Brachmann

Automatic cell segmentation in microscopy images works well with the support of deep neural networks trained with full supervision. Collecting and annotating images, though, is not a sustainable solution for every new microscopy database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Youssef Dawoud , Julia Hornauer , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Direct image-to-image alignment that relies on the optimization of photometric error metrics suffers from limited convergence range and sensitivity to lighting conditions. Deep learning approaches has been applied to address this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Lei Han , Mengqi Ji , Lu Fang , Matthias Nießner

Traditional microlensing event vetting methods require highly trained human experts, and the process is both complex and time-consuming. This reliance on manual inspection often leads to inefficiencies and constrains the ability to scale…

Precise segmentation of objects with highly similar shapes remains a challenging problem in dense prediction, especially in scenarios with ambiguous boundaries, overlapping instances, and weak inter-instance visual differences. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rui Xiao

Within the domain of medical image analysis, three distinct methodologies have demonstrated commendable accuracy: Neural Networks, Decision Trees, and Ensemble-Based Learning Algorithms, particularly in the specialized context of genstro…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zeshan Khan

Foundation models trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale histological images have significantly accelerated the development of computational pathology. These models can serve as backbones for region-of-interest (ROI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiawen Li , Jiali Hu , Xitong Ling , Yongqiang Lv , Yuxuan Chen , Yizhi Wang , Tian Guan , Yifei Liu , Yonghong He

It is challenging learning from demonstrated observation-only trajectories in a non-time-aligned environment because most imitation learning methods aim to imitate experts by following the demonstration step-by-step. However, aligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shanqi Liu , Junjie Cao , Wenzhou Chen , Licheng Wen , Yong Liu

Developing neural network image classification models often requires significant architecture engineering. In this paper, we study a method to learn the model architectures directly on the dataset of interest. As this approach is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Barret Zoph , Vijay Vasudevan , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le

Learned image reconstruction has become a pillar in computational imaging and inverse problems. Among the most successful approaches are learned iterative networks, which are formulated by unrolling classical iterative optimisation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Andreas Hauptmann , Ozan Öktem

The accurate segmentation and tracking of cells in microscopy image sequences is an important task in biomedical research, e.g., for studying the development of tissues, organs or entire organisms. However, the segmentation of touching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Tim Scherr , Katharina Löffler , Moritz Böhland , Ralf Mikut

Determining the localization of specific protein in human cells is important for understanding cellular functions and biological processes of underlying diseases. Among imaging techniques, high-throughput fluorescence microscopy imaging is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Yijun Tian

Point clouds acquired by 3D scanning devices are often sparse, noisy, and non-uniform, causing a loss of geometric features. To facilitate the usability of point clouds in downstream applications, given such input, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Guangshun Wei , Hao Pan , Shaojie Zhuang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Changjian Li

Downsampling is widely adopted to achieve a good trade-off between accuracy and latency for visual recognition. Unfortunately, the commonly used pooling layers are not learned, and thus cannot preserve important information. As another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ho Man Kwan , Shenghui Song

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Automatic detection and segmentation of cells and nuclei in microscopy images is important for many biological applications. Recent successful learning-based approaches include per-pixel cell segmentation with subsequent pixel grouping, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Uwe Schmidt , Martin Weigert , Coleman Broaddus , Gene Myers

Learned image compression methods generally optimize a rate-distortion loss, trading off improvements in visual distortion for added bitrate. Increasingly, however, compressed imagery is used as an input to deep learning networks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Maxime Kawawa-Beaudan , Ryan Roggenkemper , Avideh Zakhor

This paper aims at addressing the problem of substantial performance degradation at extremely low computational cost (e.g. 5M FLOPs on ImageNet classification). We found that two factors, sparse connectivity and dynamic activation function,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Yunsheng Li , Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu , Lei Zhang , Nuno Vasconcelos

The majority of model-based learned image reconstruction methods in medical imaging have been limited to uniform domains, such as pixelated images. If the underlying model is solved on nonuniform meshes, arising from a finite element method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 William Herzberg , Daniel B. Rowe , Andreas Hauptmann , Sarah J. Hamilton