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Inland water body segmentation from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is an important task needed for several applications, such as flood mapping. While SAR sensors capture data in all-weather conditions as high-resolution images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Siddharth Kothari , Srinivasan Murali , Sankalp Kothari , Ujjwal Verma , Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair

In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Mads Nielsen

Given a 3D surface defined by an elevation function on a 2D grid as well as non-spatial features observed at each pixel, the problem of surface segmentation aims to classify pixels into contiguous classes based on both non-spatial features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Wenchong He , Arpan Man Sainju , Zhe Jiang , Da Yan

Three-dimensional facial stereophotogrammetry provides a detailed representation of craniofacial soft tissue without the use of ionizing radiation. While manual annotation of landmarks serves as the current gold standard for cephalometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Bo Berends , Freek Bielevelt , Ruud Schreurs , Shankeeth Vinayahalingam , Thomas Maal , Guido de Jong

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) are a natural implicit representation for open surfaces but, unlike Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), are challenging to triangulate into explicit meshes. This is especially true at high resolutions where neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Deep metric learning (DML) aims to automatically construct task-specific distances or similarities of data, resulting in a low-dimensional representation. Several significant metric-learning methods have been proposed. Nonetheless, no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Imam Mustafa Kamal , Hyerim Bae

We present a method to jointly refine the geometry and semantic segmentation of 3D surface meshes. Our method alternates between updating the shape and the semantic labels. In the geometry refinement step, the mesh is deformed with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Maros Blaha , Mathias Rothermel , Martin R. Oswald , Torsten Sattler , Audrey Richard , Jan D. Wegner , Marc Pollefeys , Konrad Schindler

Recent progress in neural implicit functions has set new state-of-the-art in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D shapes from a collection of images. However, these approaches are limited to closed surfaces as they require the surface to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xiaoxu Meng , Weikai Chen , Bo Yang

3D motion estimation from cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images is important for the assessment of cardiac function and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Most of the previous methods focus on estimating pixel-/voxel-wise motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Qingjie Meng , Wenjia Bai , Tianrui Liu , Declan P O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

The training of many existing end-to-end steering angle prediction models heavily relies on steering angles as the supervisory signal. Without learning from much richer contexts, these methods are susceptible to the presence of sharp road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Yuenan Hou , Zheng Ma , Chunxiao Liu , Chen Change Loy

Automatic labelling of anatomical structures, such as coronary arteries, is critical for diagnosis, yet existing (non-deep learning) methods are limited by a reliance on prior topological knowledge of the expected tree-like structures. As…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yadan Li , Mohammad Ali Armin , Simon Denman , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal

Line segment detection plays a cornerstone role in computer vision tasks. Among numerous detection methods that have been recently proposed, the ones based on edge drawing attract increasing attention owing to their excellent detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xinyu Lin , Yingjie Zhou , Yipeng Liu , Ce Zhu

We present implicit displacement fields, a novel representation for detailed 3D geometry. Inspired by a classic surface deformation technique, displacement mapping, our method represents a complex surface as a smooth base surface plus a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Wang Yifan , Lukas Rahmann , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

We propose in this article to build up a collaboration between a deep neural network and a human in the loop to swiftly obtain accurate segmentation maps of remote sensing images. In a nutshell, the agent iteratively interacts with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Gaston Lenczner , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Bertrand Le Saux , Nicola Luminari , Guy Le Besnerais

Usually, lesions are not isolated but are associated with the surrounding tissues. For example, the growth of a tumour can depend on or infiltrate into the surrounding tissues. Due to the pathological nature of the lesions, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Lin Wang , Xiufen Ye , Donghao Zhang , Wanji He , Lie Ju , Yi Luo , Huan Luo , Xin Wang , Wei Feng , Kaimin Song , Xin Zhao , Zongyuan Ge

Deformation field estimation is an important and challenging issue in many medical image registration applications. In recent years, deep learning technique has become a promising approach for simplifying registration problems, and has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yujia Zhou , Shumao Pang , Jun Cheng , Yuhang Sun , Yi Wu , Lei Zhao , Yaqin Liu , Zhentai Lu , Wei Yang , Qianjin Feng

Vision-centric 3D environment understanding is both vital and challenging for autonomous driving systems. Recently, object-free methods have attracted considerable attention. Such methods perceive the world by predicting the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Lizhe Liu , Bohua Wang , Hongwei Xie , Daqi Liu , Li Liu , Zhiqiang Tian , Kuiyuan Yang , Bing Wang