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Breast lesions segmentation is an important step of computer-aided diagnosis system, and it has attracted much attention. However, accurate segmentation of malignant breast lesions is a challenging task due to the effects of heterogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Gongping Chen , Yuming Liu , Yu Dai , Jianxun Zhang , Liang Cui , Xiaotao Yin

The low-level details and high-level semantics are both essential to the semantic segmentation task. However, to speed up the model inference, current approaches almost always sacrifice the low-level details, which leads to a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Changqian Yu , Changxin Gao , Jingbo Wang , Gang Yu , Chunhua Shen , Nong Sang

Land cover classification is a multi-class segmentation task to classify each pixel into a certain natural or man-made category of the earth surface, such as water, soil, natural vegetation, crops, and human infrastructure. Limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhiqi Zhang , Wen Lu , Jinshan Cao , Guangqi Xie

Significant progress has been made in boundary detection with the help of convolutional neural networks. Recent boundary detection models not only focus on real object boundary detection but also "crisp" boundaries (precisely localized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yi-Jun Cao , Chuan Lin , Yong-Jie Li

The objective of this work is to segment high-resolution images without overloading GPU memory usage or losing the fine details in the output segmentation map. The memory constraint means that we must either downsample the big image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Chuong Huynh , Anh Tran , Khoa Luu , Minh Hoai

Accurate and fast scene understanding is one of the challenging task for autonomous driving, which requires to take full advantage of LiDAR point clouds for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a \textbf{concise} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Hui-Xian Cheng , Xian-Feng Han , Guo-Qiang Xiao

We present an end-to-end trainable deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) for semantic segmentation with built-in awareness of semantically meaningful boundaries. Semantic segmentation is a fundamental remote sensing task, and most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Dimitrios Marmanis , Konrad Schindler , Jan Dirk Wegner , Silvano Galliani , Mihai Datcu , Uwe Stilla

Automated tongue image segmentation in tongue images is a challenging task for two reasons: 1) there are many pathological details on the tongue surface, which affect the extraction of the boundary; 2) the shapes of the tongues captured…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Xinyi Zeng , Qian Zhang , Jia Chen , Guixu Zhang , Aimin Zhou , Yiqin Wang

Recently, segmentation-based methods are quite popular in scene text detection, which mainly contain two steps: text kernel segmentation and expansion. However, the segmentation process only considers each pixel independently, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xi Zhao , Wei Feng , Zheng Zhang , Jingjing Lv , Xin Zhu , Zhangang Lin , Jinghe Hu , Jingping Shao

In material science, image segmentation is of great significance for quantitative analysis of microstructures. Here, we propose a novel Weighted Propagation Convolution Neural Network based on U-Net (WPU-Net) to detect boundary in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Wei Liu , Jiahao Chen , Chuni Liu , Xiaojuan Ban , Boyuan Ma , Hao Wang , Weihua Xue , Yu Guo

Edge detection is crucial in medical image processing, enabling precise extraction of structural information to support lesion identification and image analysis. Traditional edge detection models typically rely on complex Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Fuzhang Li , Chuan Lin

The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Chenbin Ma , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Youdan Feng , Guanglei Zhang

Modern deep learning architectures produce highly accurate results on many challenging semantic segmentation datasets. State-of-the-art methods are, however, not directly transferable to real-time applications or embedded devices, since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Rudra P K Poudel , Ujwal Bonde , Stephan Liwicki , Christopher Zach

In this work we show that adapting Deep Convolutional Neural Network training to the task of boundary detection can result in substantial improvements over the current state-of-the-art in boundary detection. Our contributions consist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Iasonas Kokkinos

Medical image segmentation requires large annotated datasets, creating a significant bottleneck for clinical applications. While few-shot segmentation methods can learn from minimal examples, existing approaches demonstrate suboptimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Ziyuan Gao

The ability to perform pixel-wise semantic segmentation in real-time is of paramount importance in mobile applications. Recent deep neural networks aimed at this task have the disadvantage of requiring a large number of floating point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Adam Paszke , Abhishek Chaurasia , Sangpil Kim , Eugenio Culurciello

When approaching a novel visual recognition problem in a specialized image domain, a common strategy is to start with a pre-trained deep neural network and fine-tune it to the specialized domain. If the target domain covers a smaller visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Frederick Tung , Srikanth Muralidharan , Greg Mori

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chen Wang , Yixin Zhu , Yongbin Zhu , Fengyuan Shi , Qi Li , Jun Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Keli Hu

Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed images plays a crucial role in precision agriculture, environmental protection, and economic assessment. In recent years, substantial fine-resolution remote sensing images are available for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Chenxi Duan

High-resolution image segmentation remains challenging and error-prone due to the enormous size of intermediate feature maps. Conventional methods avoid this problem by using patch based approaches where each patch is segmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fahim Faisal Niloy , M. Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali , AKM Mahbubur Rahman