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We introduce a differentiable, end-to-end trainable framework for solving pixel-level grouping problems such as instance segmentation consisting of two novel components. First, we regress pixels into a hyper-spherical embedding space so…

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To autonomously navigate and plan interactions in real-world environments, robots require the ability to robustly perceive and map complex, unstructured surrounding scenes. Besides building an internal representation of the observed scene…

We propose instance segmentation as a useful tool for image analysis in materials science. Instance segmentation is an advanced technique in computer vision which generates individual segmentation masks for every object of interest that is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-06 Ryan Cohn , Iver Anderson , Tim Prost , Jordan Tiarks , Emma White , Elizabeth Holm

Recently proposed neural network architectures like PointNet [QSMG16] and PointNet++ [QYSG17] have made it possible to apply Deep Learning to 3D point sets. The feature representations of shapes learned by these two networks enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Abhimanyu Talwar , Julien Laasri

Compared to many other dense prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation, it is the arbitrary number of instances that has made instance segmentation much more challenging. In order to predict a mask for each instance, mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Xinlong Wang , Rufeng Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Tao Kong , Lei Li

Although instance-aware perception is a key prerequisite for many autonomous robotic applications, most of the methods only partially solve the problem by focusing solely on known object categories. However, for robots interacting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Maximilian Durner , Wout Boerdijk , Martin Sundermeyer , Werner Friedl , Zoltan-Csaba Marton , Rudolph Triebel

Segmentation, i.e., the partitioning of volumetric data into components, is a crucial task in many image processing applications ever since such data could be generated. Most existing applications nowadays, specifically CNNs, make use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Thomas Lang , Tomas Sauer

Despite recent progress of automatic medical image segmentation techniques, fully automatic results usually fail to meet the clinical use and typically require further refinement. In this work, we propose a quality-aware memory network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Tianfei Zhou , Liulei Li , Gustav Bredell , Jianwu Li , Ender Konukoglu

Segmentation of objects in microscopy images is required for many biomedical applications. We introduce object-centric embeddings (OCEs), which embed image patches such that the spatial offsets between patches cropped from the same object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Steffen Wolf , Manan Lalit , Henry Westmacott , Katie McDole , Jan Funke

Direct automatic segmentation of objects from 3D medical imaging, such as magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, is challenging as it often involves accurately identifying a number of individual objects with complex geometries within a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Wei Dai , Boyeong Woo , Siyu Liu , Matthew Marques , Craig B. Engstrom , Peter B. Greer , Stuart Crozier , Jason A. Dowling , Shekhar S. Chandra

Recently, instance segmentation has made great progress with the rapid development of deep neural networks. However, there still exist two main challenges including discovering indistinguishable objects and modeling the relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jinming Su , Ruihong Yin , Xingyue Chen , Junfeng Luo

We present an efficient deep learning approach for the challenging task of tumor segmentation in multisequence MR images. In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have achieved state-of-the-art performances in a large variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Traditionally, algorithms that learn to segment object instances in 2D images have heavily relied on large amounts of human-annotated data. Only recently, novel approaches have emerged tackling this problem in an unsupervised fashion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

We show dense voxel embeddings learned via deep metric learning can be employed to produce a highly accurate segmentation of neurons from 3D electron microscopy images. A "metric graph" on a set of edges between voxels is constructed from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Kisuk Lee , Ran Lu , Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

Open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation seeks to segment and classify instances beyond the annotated label space. Existing methods typically map 3D instances to 2D RGB-D images, and then employ vision-language models (VLMs) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Hongrui Wu , Zhicheng Gao , Jin Cao , Kelu Yao , Wen Shen , Zhihua Wei

Panoptic segmentation is the combination of semantic and instance segmentation: assign the points in a 3D point cloud to semantic categories and partition them into distinct object instances. It has many obvious applications for outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Binbin Xiang , Torben Peters , Theodora Kontogianni , Frawa Vetterli , Stefano Puliti , Rasmus Astrup , Konrad Schindler

Instance segmentation in 3D is a challenging task due to the lack of large-scale annotated datasets. In this paper, we show that this task can be addressed effectively by leveraging instead 2D pre-trained models for instance segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yash Bhalgat , Iro Laina , João F. Henriques , Andrew Zisserman , Andrea Vedaldi

We propose an attention mechanism for 3D medical image segmentation. The method, named segmentation-by-detection, is a cascade of a detection module followed by a segmentation module. The detection module enables a region of interest to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Min Tang , Zichen Zhang , Dana Cobzas , Martin Jagersand , Jacob L. Jaremko

Prevalent state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods fall into a query-based scheme, in which instance masks are derived by querying the image feature using a set of instance-aware embeddings. In this work, we devise a new training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Wenguan Wang , James Liang , Dongfang Liu

We propose a novel fast and robust 3D point clouds segmentation framework via coupled feature selection, named 3DCFS, that jointly performs semantic and instance segmentation. Inspired by the human scene perception process, we design a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Liang Du , Jingang Tan , Xiangyang Xue , Lili Chen , Hongkai Wen , Jianfeng Feng , Jiamao Li , Xiaolin Zhang