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In this paper, we propose an approach for solving PDEs on evolving surfaces using a combination of the trace finite element method and a fast marching method. The numerical approach is based on the Eulerian description of the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu

This paper addresses the morphing of manifold-valued images based on the time discrete geodesic paths model of Berkels, Effland and Rumpf 2015. Although for our manifold-valued setting such an interpretation of the energy functional is not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Sebastian Neumayer , Johannes Persch , Gabriele Steidl

We propose an efficient and scalable method for incrementally building a dense, semantically annotated 3D map in real-time. The proposed method assigns class probabilities to each region, not each element (e.g., surfel and voxel), of the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Yoshikatsu Nakajima , Keisuke Tateno , Federico Tombari , Hideo Saito

This paper introduces a novel nonlocal partial difference equation (G-PDE) for labeling metric data on graphs. The G-PDE is derived as nonlocal reparametrization of the assignment flow approach that was introduced in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Dmitrij Sitenko , Bastian Boll , Christoph Schnörr

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation techniques have shown promising results when evaluated based on conventional metrics such as the Dice score or Intersection-over-Union. However, these fully automatic methods often fail to meet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Liu Li , Qiang Ma , Cheng Ouyang , Johannes C. Paetzold , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

This paper describes the adaptation of a well-scaling parallel algorithm for computing Morse-Smale segmentations based on path compression to a distributed computational setting. Additionally, we extend the algorithm to efficiently compute…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Michael Will , Jonas Lukasczyk , Julien Tierny , Christoph Garth

Image segmentation is an essential component in many image processing and computer vision tasks. The primary goal of image segmentation is to simplify an image for easier analysis, and there are two broad approaches for achieving this: edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 J. N. Mueller , J. N. Corcoran

In this paper the optimal transport and the metamorphosis perspectives are combined. For a pair of given input images geodesic paths in the space of images are defined as minimizers of a resulting path energy. To this end, the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Jan Maas , Martin Rumpf , Carola Schönlieb , Stefan Simon

In this paper, we present a new image segmentation method based on the concept of sparse subset selection. Starting with an over-segmentation, we adopt local spectral histogram features to encode the visual information of the small segments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Fariba Zohrizadeh , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Farhad Kamangar

Training deep networks for semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled training data, which presents a major challenge in practice, as labeling segmentation masks is a highly labor-intensive process. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Qin Wang , Yuhua Chen , Luc Van Gool

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision aimed at delineating object boundaries within images. Traditional approaches, such as edge detection and variational methods, have been widely explored, while recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Junchao Zhou

We propose a novel guided interactive segmentation (GIS) algorithm for video objects to improve the segmentation accuracy and reduce the interaction time. First, we design the reliability-based attention module to analyze the reliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuk Heo , Yeong Jun Koh , Chang-Su Kim

The present paper develops a general methodology for the morphological segmentation of hyperspectral images, i.e., with an important number of channels. This approach, based on watershed, is composed of a spectral classification to obtain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Guillaume Noyel , Jesus Angulo , Dominique Jeulin

For image segmentation, the current standard is to perform pixel-level optimization and inference in Euclidean output embedding spaces through linear hyperplanes. In this work, we show that hyperbolic manifolds provide a valuable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Mina GhadimiAtigh , Julian Schoep , Erman Acar , Nanne van Noord , Pascal Mettes

We introduce a method-of-lines formulation of the closest point method, a numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on surfaces. This is an embedding method, which uses an implicit representation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Ingrid von Glehn , Thomas März , Colin B. Macdonald

Many robotics applications benefit from being able to compute multiple locally optimal paths in a given configuration space. Examples include path planning for of tethered robots with cable-length constraints, systems involving cables,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Alp Sahin , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

Geometric integration theory can be employed when numerically solving ODEs or PDEs with constraints. In this paper, we present several one-step algorithms of various orders for ODEs on a collection of spheres. To demonstrate the versatility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Debra Lewis , Nilima Nigam

We consider the problem of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in domains with complex microparticle geometry that is impractical, or intractable, to model explicitly. Drawing inspiration from volume rendering, we propose tackling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Bailey Miller , Rohan Sawhney , Keenan Crane , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Visual perception plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous behavior, offering a cost-effective and efficient alternative to complex multi-sensor systems. However, robust segmentation remains a challenge in complex scenarios. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hewen Xiao , Jie Mei , Guangfu Ma , Weiren Wu

A functional for joint variational object segmentation and shape matching is developed. The formulation is based on optimal transport w.r.t. geometric distance and local feature similarity. Geometric invariance and modelling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Bernhard Schmitzer , Christoph Schnörr