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Image pre-training, the current de-facto paradigm for a wide range of visual tasks, is generally less favored in the field of video recognition. By contrast, a common strategy is to directly train with spatiotemporal convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Xianhang Li , Huiyu Wang , Chen Wei , Jieru Mei , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Semantic segmentation of blood vessels is an important task in medical image analysis, but its progress is often hindered by the scarcity of large annotated datasets and the poor generalization of models across different imaging modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Cesar H. Comin , Wesley N. Galvão

Shape learning, or the ability to leverage shape information, could be a desirable property of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when target objects have specific shapes. While some research on the topic is emerging, there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yixin Zhang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Due to memory constraints on current hardware, most convolution neural networks (CNN) are trained on sub-megapixel images. For example, most popular datasets in computer vision contain images much less than a megapixel in size (0.09MP for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Hans Pinckaers , Bram van Ginneken , Geert Litjens

Humans rely heavily on shape information to recognize objects. Conversely, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are biased more towards texture. This is perhaps the main reason why CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Ali Borji

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn to extract representations of complex features, such as object shapes and textures to solve image recognition tasks. Recent work indicates that CNNs trained on ImageNet are biased towards features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Ranjitha Subramaniam , Robin Hutmacher , Julien Vitay , Volker Fischer , Jan Hendrik Metzen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in various fields, particularly in the domain of computer vision. However, why this architecture works well remains to be a mystery. In this work we move a small step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Bing Yu , Junzhao Zhang , Zhanxing Zhu

The well-documented presence of texture bias in modern convolutional neural networks has led to a plethora of algorithms that promote an emphasis on shape cues, often to support generalization to new domains. Yet, common datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Nikolai Kalischek , Rodrigo C. Daudt , Torben Peters , Reinhard Furrer , Jan D. Wegner , Konrad Schindler

Motivated by the important archaeological application of exploring cultural heritage objects, in this paper we study the challenging problem of automatically segmenting curve structures that are very weakly stamped or carved on an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yuhang Lu , Jun Zhou , Jing Wang , Jun Chen , Karen Smith , Colin Wilder , Song Wang

Successful fine-grained image classification methods learn subtle details between visually similar (sub-)classes, but the problem becomes significantly more challenging if the details are missing due to low resolution. Encouraged by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Dingding Cai , Ke Chen , Yanlin Qian , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the understanding of visual content. This is mainly due to their ability to break down an image into smaller pieces, extract multi-scale localized features and compose them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Asish Bera

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) require large image corpora to be trained on classification tasks. The variation in image resolutions, sizes of objects and patterns depicted, and image scales, hampers CNN training and performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Nanne van Noord , Eric Postma

In the context of fine-grained visual categorization, the ability to interpret models as human-understandable visual manuals is sometimes as important as achieving high classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel Part-Stacked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Shaoli Huang , Zhe Xu , Dacheng Tao , Ya Zhang

In the last decade, deep learning has contributed to advances in a wide range computer vision tasks including texture analysis. This paper explores a new approach for texture segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks, sharing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Vincent Andrearczyk , Paul F. Whelan

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has led to significant progress in object detection. In order to detect the objects in various sizes, the object detectors often exploit the hierarchy of the multi-scale feature maps called feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jin Hyeok Yoo , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of machine learning tasks by leveraging hierarchical feature learning through deep architectures. However, the large number of layers and millions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Biyi Fang , Truong Vo , Jean Utke , Diego Klabjan

This study is concerned with few-shot segmentation, i.e., segmenting the region of an unseen object class in a query image, given support image(s) of its instances. The current methods rely on the pretrained CNN features of the support and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zhijie Wang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

There is an increasing interest in applying deep learning to 3D mesh segmentation. We observe that 1) existing feature-based techniques are often slow or sensitive to feature resizing, 2) there are minimal comparative studies and 3)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-02-09 David George , Xianghua Xie , Gary KL Tam

Despite the effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification, our understanding of the relationship between shape of convolution kernels and learned representations is limited. In this work, we explore and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved superior performance but still lack clarity about the nature and properties of feature extraction. In this paper, by analyzing the sensitivity of neural networks to frequencies and scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Liangqi Zhang , Yihao Luo , Xiang Cao , Haibo Shen , Tianjiang Wang