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Instance selection (IS) addresses the critical challenge of reducing dataset size while keeping informative characteristics, becoming increasingly important as datasets grow to millions of instances. Current IS methods often struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zahiriddin Rustamov , Ayham Zaitouny , Nazar Zaki

We propose Masked-Attention Transformers for Surgical Instrument Segmentation (MATIS), a two-stage, fully transformer-based method that leverages modern pixel-wise attention mechanisms for instrument segmentation. MATIS exploits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Nicolás Ayobi , Alejandra Pérez-Rondón , Santiago Rodríguez , Pablo Arbeláez

We present Polite Teacher, a simple yet effective method for the task of semi-supervised instance segmentation. The proposed architecture relies on the Teacher-Student mutual learning framework. To filter out noisy pseudo-labels, we use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dominik Filipiak , Andrzej Zapała , Piotr Tempczyk , Anna Fensel , Marek Cygan

Video Instance Segmentation is a fundamental computer vision task that deals with segmenting and tracking object instances across a video sequence. Most existing methods typically accomplish this task by employing a multi-stage top-down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jyoti Kini , Mubarak Shah

Point-level Supervised Instance Segmentation (PSIS) aims to enhance the applicability and scalability of instance segmentation by utilizing low-cost yet instance-informative annotations. Existing PSIS methods usually rely on positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zipeng Wang , Xuehui Yu , Xumeng Han , Wenwen Yu , Zhixun Huang , Jianbin Jiao , Zhenjun Han

In computer vision, object detection is one of most important tasks, which underpins a few instance-level recognition tasks and many downstream applications. Recently one-stage methods have gained much attention over two-stage approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Hao Chen , Tong He

Existing 3D instance segmentation methods frequently encounter issues with over-segmentation, leading to redundant and inaccurate 3D proposals that complicate downstream tasks. This challenge arises from their unsupervised merging approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Phuc Nguyen , Minh Luu , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham , Khoi Nguyen

We propose an approach for Open-World Instance Segmentation (OWIS), a task that aims to segment arbitrary unknown objects in images by generalizing from a limited set of annotated object classes during training. Our Segment Object System…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Christian Wilms , Tim Rolff , Maris Hillemann , Robert Johanson , Simone Frintrop

In this paper, we propose Contextual Guided Segmentation (CGS) framework for video instance segmentation in three passes. In the first pass, i.e., preview segmentation, we propose Instance Re-Identification Flow to estimate main properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Trung-Nghia Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran

Although the anchor-based detectors have taken a big step forward in pedestrian detection, the overall performance of algorithm still needs further improvement for practical applications, \emph{e.g.}, a good trade-off between the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Chubin Zhuang , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Two-stage and query-based instance segmentation methods have achieved remarkable results. However, their segmented masks are still very coarse. In this paper, we present Mask Transfiner for high-quality and efficient instance segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Xia Li , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

Instance segmentation of biological images is essential for studying object behaviors and properties. The challenges, such as clustering, occlusion, and adhesion problems of the objects, make instance segmentation a non-trivial task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Jingru Yi , Hui Tang , Pengxiang Wu , Bo Liu , Daniel J. Hoeppner , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Lianyi Han , Wei Fan

Image saliency detection has recently witnessed rapid progress due to deep convolutional neural networks. However, none of the existing methods is able to identify object instances in the detected salient regions. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

This paper addresses the semantic instance segmentation task in the open-set conditions, where input images can contain known and unknown object classes. The training process of existing semantic instance segmentation methods requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Trung Pham , Vijay Kumar B G , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro , Ian Reid

Instance segmentation is the problem of detecting and delineating each distinct object of interest appearing in an image. Current instance segmentation approaches consist of ensembles of modules that are trained independently of each other,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Bernardino Romera-Paredes , Philip H. S. Torr

The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

This paper formulates a new problem, instance shadow detection, which aims to detect shadow instance and the associated object instance that cast each shadow in the input image. To approach this task, we first compile a new dataset with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Focusing on only semantic instances that only salient in a scene gains more benefits for robot navigation and self-driving cars than looking at all objects in the whole scene. This paper pushes the envelope on salient regions in a video to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Trung-Nghia Le , Akihiro Sugimoto

Segmenting object instances is a key task in machine perception, with safety-critical applications in robotics and autonomous driving. We introduce a novel approach to instance segmentation that jointly leverages measurements from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Alex Zihao Zhu , Vincent Casser , Reza Mahjourian , Henrik Kretzschmar , Sören Pirk

While recent feed-forward 3D reconstruction models provide a strong geometric foundation for scene understanding, extending them to 3D instance segmentation typically relies on a disjointed "lift-and-cluster" paradigm. Grouping dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Changyang Li , Xueqing Huang , Shin-Fang Chng , Huangying Zhan , Qingan Yan , Yi Xu