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Few-shot segmentation aims to train a segmentation model that can fast adapt to novel classes with few exemplars. The conventional training paradigm is to learn to make predictions on query images conditioned on the features from support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Gengwei Zhang , Guoliang Kang , Yi Yang , Yunchao Wei

Primary health care frequently relies on low-cost imaging devices, which are commonly used for screening purposes. To ensure accurate diagnosis, these systems depend on advanced reconstruction algorithms designed to approximate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Thomas Pinetz , Veit Hucke , Hrvoje Bogunovic

We transpose an optimal control technique to the image segmentation problem. The idea is to consider image segmentation as a parameter estimation problem. The parameter to estimate is the color of the pixels of the image. We use the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Hend Ben Ameur , Guy Chavent , Francois Clément , Pierre Weis

Matching corresponding features between two images is a fundamental task to computer vision with numerous applications in object recognition, robotics, and 3D reconstruction. Current state of the art in image feature matching has focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Chen Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Ke Xian , Zhiguo Cao , Xin Li

Image segmentation is the problem of partitioning an image into different subsets, where each subset may have a different characterization in terms of color, intensity, texture, and/or other features. Segmentation is a fundamental component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-03 M. Abdelsamea

Implicit representation mapping (IRM) can translate image features to any continuous resolution, showcasing its potent capability for ultra-high-resolution image segmentation refinement. Current IRM-based methods for refining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ziyu Zhao , Xiaoguang Li , Pingping Cai , Canyu Zhang , Song Wang

The iterative refinement method (IRM) has been very successfully applied in many different fields for examples the modern quantum chemical calculation and CT image reconstruction. It is proved that the refinement method can create an exact…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Kang Yang , Kevin Yang , Xintie Yang , Shuang-Ren Zhao

This work presents an approach for automating the discretization and approximation procedures in constructing digital representations of composites from Micro-CT images featuring intricate microstructures. The proposed method is guided by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yanran Wang , Jonghyuk Baek , Yichun Tang , Jing Du , Mike Hillman , J. S. Chen

In this paper, we develop an iterative scheme to construct multiscale basis functions within the framework of the Constraint Energy Minimizing Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (CEM-GMsFEM) for the mixed formulation. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Siu Wun Cheung , Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Sai-Mang Pun

Image thresholding has played an important role in image segmentation. This paper presents a hybrid approach for image segmentation based on the thresholding by fuzzy c-means (THFCM) algorithm for image segmentation. The goal of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Firas Ajil Jassim

Inspired by the combination of feedforward and iterative computations in the virtual cortex, and taking advantage of the ability of denoising autoencoders to estimate the score of a joint distribution, we propose a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Adriana Romero , Michal Drozdzal , Akram Erraqabi , Simon Jégou , Yoshua Bengio

Transferability estimation identifies the best pre-trained models for downstream tasks without incurring the high computational cost of full fine-tuning. This capability facilitates deployment and advances the pre-training and fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yaoyan Zheng , Huiqun Wang , Nan Zhou , Di Huang

We propose a novel implicit feature refinement module for high-quality instance segmentation. Existing image/video instance segmentation methods rely on explicitly stacked convolutions to refine instance features before the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Lufan Ma , Tiancai Wang , Bin Dong , Jiangpeng Yan , Xiu Li , Xiangyu Zhang

The goal of data selection is to capture the most structural information from a set of data. This paper presents a fast and accurate data selection method, in which the selected samples are optimized to span the subspace of all data. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Mohsen Joneidi , Alireza Zaeemzadeh , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

This paper describes a novel method for partitioning image into meaningful segments. The proposed method employs watershed transform, a well-known image segmentation technique. Along with that, it uses various auxiliary schemes such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Ankit R. Chadha , Neha S. Satam

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for the problem of structural image segmentation through an interactive model-based approach. Interaction is expressed in the model creation, which is done according to user traces drawn over a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Alexandre Noma , Ana B. V. Graciano , Luis Augusto Consularo , Roberto M. Cesar-Jr , Isabelle Bloch

The goal of this paper is to present a new efficient image segmentation method based on evolutionary computation which is a model inspired from human behavior. Based on this model, a four layer process for image segmentation is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Roohollah Aslanzadeh , Kazem Qazanfari , Mohammad Rahmati

Image segmentation techniques are predominately based on parameter-laden optimization. The objective function typically involves weights for balancing competing image fidelity and segmentation regularization cost terms. Setting these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Josna Rao , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Abugharbieh

We propose a new type of regularization functional for images called oscillation total generalized variation (TGV) which can represent structured textures with oscillatory character in a specified direction and scale. The infimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Yiming Gao , Kristian Bredies

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan