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Accurate segmentation of the tooth point cloud is of great significance for diagnosis clinical assisting and treatment planning. Existing methods mostly employ semantic segmentation, focusing on the semantic feature between different types…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yating Cai , Yanghui Xu , Zehua Hu , Jiazhou Chen , Jing Huang

Surgical instrument segmentation is an essential component of computer-assisted and robotic surgery systems. Vision-based segmentation models typically produce outputs limited to a predefined set of instrument categories, which restricts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tae-Min Choi , Juyoun Park

Medical instrument segmentation in 3D ultrasound is essential for image-guided intervention. However, to train a successful deep neural network for instrument segmentation, a large number of labeled images are required, which is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Hongxu Yang , Caifeng Shan , R. Arthur Bouwman , Lukas R. C. Dekker , Alexander F. Kolen , Peter H. N. de With

Recently, there has been a panoptic segmentation task combining semantic and instance segmentation, in which the goal is to classify each pixel with the corresponding instance ID. In this work, we propose a solution to tackle the panoptic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shuo-En Chang , Yi-Cheng Yang , En-Ting Lin , Pei-Yung Hsiao , Li-Chen Fu

Accurate segmentation of surgical instruments in robotic-assisted surgery is critical for enabling context-aware computer-assisted interventions, such as tool tracking, workflow analysis, and autonomous decision-making. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sara Ameli

Semantic tool segmentation in surgical videos is important for surgical scene understanding and computer-assisted interventions as well as for the development of robotic automation. The problem is challenging because different illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Emanuele Colleoni , Philip Edwards , Danail Stoyanov

Instance segmentation is a form of image detection which has a range of applications, such as object refinement, medical image analysis, and image/video editing, all of which demand a high degree of accuracy. However, this precision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Muhammed Korkmaz , T. Metin Sezgin

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

Surgical context inference has recently garnered significant attention in robot-assisted surgery as it can facilitate workflow analysis, skill assessment, and error detection. However, runtime context inference is challenging since it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Zongyu Li , Ian Reyes , Homa Alemzadeh

Cell instance segmentation in Pap smear image remains challenging due to the wide existence of occlusion among translucent cytoplasm in cell clumps. Conventional methods heavily rely on accurate nuclei detection results and are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yanning Zhou , Hao Chen , Jiaqi Xu , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Semantic Scene Completion aims at reconstructing a complete 3D scene with precise voxel-wise semantics from a single-view depth or RGBD image. It is a crucial but challenging problem for indoor scene understanding. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yingjie Cai , Xuesong Chen , Chao Zhang , Kwan-Yee Lin , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

In this paper, we introduce a brand new dataset to promote the study of instance segmentation for objects with irregular shapes. Our key observation is that though irregularly shaped objects widely exist in daily life and industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Lei Yang , Yan Zi Wei , Yisheng HE , Wei Sun , Zhenhang Huang , Haibin Huang , Haoqiang Fan

Object detection and instance segmentation in remote sensing images is a fundamental and challenging task, due to the complexity of scenes and targets. The latest methods tried to take into account both the efficiency and the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Zhenhang Huang , Shihao Sun , Ruirui Li

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

In recent years, compact and efficient scene understanding representations have gained popularity in increasing situational awareness and autonomy of robotic systems. In this work, we illustrate the concept of a panoptic edge segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yang Zhou , Giuseppe Loianno

Existing 3D instance segmentation methods are predominated by the bottom-up design -- manually fine-tuned algorithm to group points into clusters followed by a refinement network. However, by relying on the quality of the clusters, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Tuan Duc Ngo , Binh-Son Hua , Khoi Nguyen

We propose a method for instance-level segmentation that uses RGB-D data as input and provides detailed information about the location, geometry and number of individual objects in the scene. This level of understanding is fundamental for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Lin Shao , Ye Tian , Jeannette Bohg

We propose an approach to instance-level image segmentation that is built on top of category-level segmentation. Specifically, for each pixel in a semantic category mask, its corresponding instance bounding box is predicted using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

We propose spatial semantic embedding network (SSEN), a simple, yet efficient algorithm for 3D instance segmentation using deep metric learning. The raw 3D reconstruction of an indoor environment suffers from occlusions, noise, and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dongsu Zhang , Junha Chun , Sang Kyun Cha , Young Min Kim

Instance segmentation and panoptic segmentation is being paid more and more attention in recent years. In comparison with bounding box based object detection and semantic segmentation, instance segmentation can provide more analytical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Xiaolong Liu , Yuqing Hou , Anbang Yao , Yurong Chen , Keqiang Li