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We present a recurrent model for semantic instance segmentation that sequentially generates binary masks and their associated class probabilities for every object in an image. Our proposed system is trainable end-to-end from an input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Amaia Salvador , Miriam Bellver , Victor Campos , Manel Baradad , Ferran Marques , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to semantic segmentation problems. However, there are many problems that are inherently not pixel-wise classification problems but are nevertheless frequently formulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Cedric Nugteren , Nóra Baka , Olaf Booij , Michael Hofmann

Despite the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), mode collapse remains a serious issue during GAN training. To date, little work has focused on understanding and quantifying which modes have been dropped by a model. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jonas Wulff , William Peebles , Hendrik Strobelt , Bolei Zhou , Antonio Torralba

Thanks to their ability to learn flexible data-driven losses, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are an integral part of many semi- and weakly-supervised methods for medical image segmentation. GANs jointly optimise a generator and an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

We introduce a novel framework to build a model that can learn how to segment objects from a collection of images without any human annotation. Our method builds on the observation that the location of object segments can be perturbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Adam Bielski , Paolo Favaro

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

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

Letting a deep network be aware of the quality of its own predictions is an interesting yet important problem. In the task of instance segmentation, the confidence of instance classification is used as mask quality score in most instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Zhaojin Huang , Lichao Huang , Yongchao Gong , Chang Huang , Xinggang Wang

Deep learning approaches heavily rely on high-quality human supervision which is nonetheless expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone, especially for image segmentation task. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yu Yang , Hakan Bilen , Qiran Zou , Wing Yin Cheung , Xiangyang Ji

Recently image inpainting has witnessed rapid progress due to generative adversarial networks (GAN) that are able to synthesize realistic contents. However, most existing GAN-based methods for semantic inpainting apply an auto-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

Large, fine-grained image segmentation datasets, annotated at pixel-level, are difficult to obtain, particularly in medical imaging, where annotations also require expert knowledge. Weakly-supervised learning can train models by relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Segmenting an image into its parts is a frequent preprocess for high-level vision tasks such as image editing. However, annotating masks for supervised training is expensive. Weakly-supervised and unsupervised methods exist, but they depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a learning framework that rely on training a discriminator to estimate a measure of difference between a target and generated distributions. GANs, as normally formulated, rely on the generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-23 R Devon Hjelm , Athul Paul Jacob , Tong Che , Adam Trischler , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Semantic instance segmentation remains a challenging task. In this work we propose to tackle the problem with a discriminative loss function, operating at the pixel level, that encourages a convolutional network to produce a representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bert De Brabandere , Davy Neven , Luc Van Gool

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a framework for producing a generative model by way of a two-player minimax game. In this paper, we propose the \emph{Generative Multi-Adversarial Network} (GMAN), a framework that extends GANs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Ishan Durugkar , Ian Gemp , Sridhar Mahadevan

Instance segmentation is essential for numerous computer vision applications, including robotics, human-computer interaction, and autonomous driving. Currently, popular models bring impressive performance in instance segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Cuong Manh Hoang

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for object instance segmentation. Our approach efficiently detects objects in an image while simultaneously generating a high-quality segmentation mask for each instance. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Kaiming He , Georgia Gkioxari , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

The performance of deep networks for semantic image segmentation largely depends on the availability of large-scale training images which are labelled at the pixel level. Typically, such pixel-level image labellings are obtained manually by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xiang Zhang , Wei Zhang , Jinye Peng , Jianping Fan

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), a class of distribution-learning methods based on a two-player game between a generator and a discriminator, can generally be formulated as a minmax problem based on the variational representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jeremiah Birrell , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Wei Zhu

Generative networks are fundamentally different in their aim and methods compared to CNNs for classification, segmentation, or object detection. They have initially not been meant to be an image analysis tool, but to produce naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Markus Wenzel