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To address the challenge of segmenting noisy images with blurred or fragmented boundaries, this paper presents a robust version of Variational Model Based Tailored UNet (VM_TUNet), a hybrid framework that integrates variational methods with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kaili Qi , Zhongyi Huang , Wenli Yang

From the autonomous car driving to medical diagnosis, the requirement of the task of image segmentation is everywhere. Segmentation of an image is one of the indispensable tasks in computer vision. This task is comparatively complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Farhana Sultana , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta

Despite the recent success of deep learning methods at achieving new state-of-the-art accuracy for medical image segmentation, some major limitations are still restricting their deployment into clinics. One major limitation of deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Lucas Fidon

Hierarchical image segmentation provides region-oriented scalespace, i.e., a set of image segmentations at different detail levels in which the segmentations at finer levels are nested with respect to those at coarser levels. Most image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-14 Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães , Jean Cousty , Yukiko Kenmochi , Laurent Najman

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

Image segmentation aims at identifying regions of interest within an image, by grouping pixels according to their properties. This task resembles the statistical one of clustering, yet many standard clustering methods fail to meet the basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Giovanna Menardi

The figure-ground segmentation of humans in images captured in natural environments is an outstanding open problem due to the presence of complex backgrounds, articulation, varying body proportions, partial views and viewpoint changes. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Alin-Ionut Popa , Cristian Sminchisescu

The quantitative analysis of 3D confocal microscopy images of the shoot apical meristem helps understanding the growth process of some plants. Cell segmentation in these images is crucial for computational plant analysis and many automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Thiago V. Spina , Johannes Stegmaier , Alexandre X. Falcão , Elliot Meyerowitz , Alexandre Cunha

The semantic segmentation of skin lesions is an important and common initial task in the computer aided diagnosis of dermoscopic images. Although deep learning-based approaches have considerably improved the segmentation accuracy, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Kumar Abhishek , Ghassan Hamarneh , Mark S. Drew

Many approaches to 3D image segmentation are based on hierarchical clustering of supervoxels into image regions. Here we describe a distributed algorithm capable of handling a tremendous number of supervoxels. The algorithm works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Ran Lu , Aleksandar Zlateski , H. Sebastian Seung

Medical image segmentation is particularly critical as a prerequisite for relevant quantitative analysis in the treatment of clinical diseases. For example, in clinical cervical cancer radiotherapy, after acquiring subabdominal MRI images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Yu Xiao , Xin Yang , Sijuan Huang , Lihua Guo

Semantic segmentation models trained on public datasets have achieved great success in recent years. However, these models didn't consider the personalization issue of segmentation though it is important in practice. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yu Zhang , Chang-Bin Zhang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Feng Mao

Medical image segmentation has become an essential technique in clinical and research-oriented applications. Because manual segmentation methods are tedious, and fully automatic segmentation lacks the flexibility of human intervention or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Kevin Karsch , Qing He , Ye Duan

Traditional image segmentation methods, such as variational models based on partial differential equations (PDEs), offer strong mathematical interpretability and precise boundary modeling, but often suffer from sensitivity to parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kaili Qi , Wenli Yang , Ye Li , Zhongyi Huang

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Many computer vision systems require low-cost segmentation algorithms based on deep learning, either because of the enormous size of input images or limited computational budget. Common solutions uniformly downsample the input images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Chen Jin , Ryutaro Tanno , Thomy Mertzanidou , Eleftheria Panagiotaki , Daniel C. Alexander

Segmentation remains an important problem in image processing. For homogeneous (piecewise smooth) images, a number of important models have been developed and refined over the past several decades. However, these models often fail when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Duy Hoang Thai , Lucas Mentch

In interactive object segmentation a user collaborates with a computer vision model to segment an object. Recent works employ convolutional neural networks for this task: Given an image and a set of corrections made by the user as input,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Theodora Kontogianni , Michael Gygli , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for image generation, often times outperforming other generative models. Since their introduction, researchers have extended the powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline to discriminative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

We introduce a novel edge tracing algorithm using Gaussian process regression. Our edge-based segmentation algorithm models an edge of interest using Gaussian process regression and iteratively searches the image for edge pixels in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jamie Burke , Stuart King