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Consistency regularization has prevailed in semi-supervised semantic segmentation and achieved promising performance. However, existing methods typically concentrate on enhancing the Image-augmentation based Prediction consistency and…

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Learning to reliably perceive and understand the scene is an integral enabler for robots to operate in the real-world. This problem is inherently challenging due to the multitude of object types as well as appearance changes caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Abhinav Valada , Rohit Mohan , Wolfram Burgard

Recent work has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be applied successfully in disparity estimation, but these methods still suffer from errors in regions of low-texture, occlusions and reflections. Concurrently, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Junming Zhang , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Existing deep learning approaches leave out the semantic cues that are crucial in semantic segmentation present in complex scenarios including cluttered backgrounds and translucent objects, etc. To handle these challenges, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Muhammad Ali , Mamoona Javaid , Mubashir Noman , Mustansar Fiaz , Salman Khan

Various architectures (such as GoogLeNets, ResNets, and DenseNets) have been proposed. However, the existing networks usually suffer from either redundancy of convolutional layers or insufficient utilization of parameters. To handle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Zhiyu Zhu , Zhen-Peng Bian , Junhui Hou , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

Accurate and real-time surgical instrument segmentation is important in the endoscopic vision of robot-assisted surgery, and significant challenges are posed by frequent instrument-tissue contacts and continuous change of observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Fangbo Qin , Shan Lin , Yangming Li , Randall A. Bly , Kris S. Moe , Blake Hannaford

To address the annotation scarcity issue in some cases of semantic segmentation, there have been a few attempts to develop the segmentation model in the few-shot learning paradigm. However, most existing methods only focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Pinzhuo Tian , Zhangkai Wu , Lei Qi , Lei Wang , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

In this paper, we present a strategy for training convolutional neural networks to effectively resolve interference arising from competing hypotheses relating to inter-categorical information throughout the network. The premise is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil D. B. Bruce

Global context information is vital in visual understanding problems, especially in pixel-level semantic segmentation. The mainstream methods adopt the self-attention mechanism to model global context information. However, pixels belonging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yanwen Chong , Congchong Nie , Yulong Tao , Xiaoshu Chen , Shaoming Pan

Reasoning segmentation requires models to ground complex, implicit textual queries into precise pixel-level masks. Existing approaches rely on a single segmentation token $\texttt{<SEG>}$, whose hidden state implicitly encodes both semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Rui Qian , Chuanhang Deng , Qiang Huang , Jian Xiong , Mingxuan Li , Yingbo Zhou , Wei Zhai , Jintao Chen , Dejing Dou

Learning visual semantic similarity is a critical challenge in bridging the gap between images and texts. However, there exist inherent variations between vision and language data, such as information density, i.e., images can contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yang Liu , Mengyuan Liu , Shudong Huang , Jiancheng Lv

Transformer-based foundation models (FMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in medical image segmentation. However, scaling these models is challenging due to the limited size of medical image datasets within isolated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yumin Zhang , Yan Gao , Haoran Duan , Hanqing Guo , Tejal Shah , Rajiv Ranjan , Bo Wei

Semantic segmentation in complex scenes relies not only on object appearance but also on object location and the surrounding environment. Nonetheless, it is difficult to model long-range context in the format of pairwise point correlations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Xin Kang , Chaoqun Wang , Xuejin Chen

In this paper, we present a strategy for training convolutional neural networks to effectively resolve interference arising from competing hypotheses relating to inter-categorical information throughout the network. The premise is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil D. B. Bruce

Few-shot semantic segmentation is the task of learning to locate each pixel of the novel class in the query image with only a few annotated support images. The current correlation-based methods construct pair-wise feature correlations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Huafeng Liu , Pai Peng , Tao Chen , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao , Xian-Sheng Hua

Deep learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation, yet achieving robust generalization across diverse imaging modalities and anatomical structures remains a major challenge. A key contributor to this limitation lies in how…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Shams Nafisa Ali , Taufiq Hasan

With the goal of recovering high-quality image content from its degraded version, image restoration enjoys numerous applications, such as in surveillance, computational photography, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Industrial image anomaly detection under the setting of one-class classification has significant practical value. However, most existing models struggle to extract separable feature representations when performing feature embedding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Minghui Yang , Jing Liu , Zhiwei Yang , Zhaoyang Wu

Segmentation of organs of interest in medical CT images is beneficial for diagnosis of diseases. Though recent methods based on Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) have shown success in many segmentation tasks, fusing features from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yanli Yuan , Bingbing Wang , Chuan Zhang , Jingyi Xu , Ximeng Liu , Liehuang Zhu

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation in computational pathology remains challenging due to scarce pixel-level annotations and unreliable pseudo-label supervision. We propose UniSemAlign, a dual-modal semantic alignment framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Le-Van Thai , Tien Dat Nguyen , Hoai Nhan Pham , Lan Anh Dinh Thi , Duy-Dong Nguyen , Ngoc Lam Quang Bui