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Attention mechanisms have raised significant interest in the research community, since they promise significant improvements in the performance of neural network architectures. However, in any specific problem, we still lack a principled…

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Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the developed world. Cancer diagnosis is performed through the microscopic analysis of a sample of suspicious tissue. This process is time consuming and error prone, but Deep Learning models…

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Automatic detection and segmentation of objects in 2D and 3D microscopy data is important for countless biomedical applications. In the natural image domain, spatial embedding-based instance segmentation methods are known to yield…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Manan Lalit , Pavel Tomancak , Florian Jug

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is challenging because tiny, low-contrast targets are easily obscured by complex and dynamic backgrounds. Conventional multi-frame approaches typically learn motion implicitly through deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nian Liu , Jin Gao , Shubo Lin , Yutong Kou , Sikui Zhang , Fudong Ge , Zhiqiang Pu , Liang Li , Gang Wang , Yizheng Wang , Weiming Hu

Modern pre-trained architectures struggle to retain previous information while undergoing continuous fine-tuning on new tasks. Despite notable progress in continual classification, systems designed for complex vision tasks such as detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Gaurav Bhatt , James Ross , Leonid Sigal

In the realm of medical diagnostics, rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly yielded remarkable improvements in brain tumor segmentation. Encoder-Decoder architectures, such as U-Net, have played a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Seif Soliman , M. Saeed Darweesh

DETR is the first end-to-end object detector using a transformer encoder-decoder architecture and demonstrates competitive performance but low computational efficiency on high resolution feature maps. The subsequent work, Deformable DETR,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Byungseok Roh , JaeWoong Shin , Wuhyun Shin , Saehoon Kim

In medical image segmentation, specialized computer vision techniques, notably transformers grounded in attention mechanisms and residual networks employing skip connections, have been instrumental in advancing performance. Nonetheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Fuchen Zheng , Xuhang Chen , Weihuang Liu , Haolun Li , Yingtie Lei , Jiahui He , Chi-Man Pun , Shounjun Zhou

The segmentation of cell nuclei in tissue images stained with the blood dye hematoxylin and eosin (H$\&$E) is essential for various clinical applications and analyses. Due to the complex characteristics of cellular morphology, a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Ziwei Cui , Jingfeng Yao , Lunbin Zeng , Juan Yang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Detection Transformer (DETR) directly transforms queries to unique objects by using one-to-one bipartite matching during training and enables end-to-end object detection. Recently, these models have surpassed traditional detectors on COCO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang , Jang Hyun Cho , Xingyi Zhou , Philipp Krähenbühl

Region proposal based methods like R-CNN and Faster R-CNN models have proven to be extremely successful in object detection and segmentation tasks. Recently, Transformers have also gained popularity in the domain of Computer Vision, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Deepanshu Pandey , Pradyumna Gupta , Sumit Bhattacharya , Aman Sinha , Rohit Agarwal

The recently proposed Detection Transformer (DETR) model successfully applies Transformer to objects detection and achieves comparable performance with two-stage object detection frameworks, such as Faster-RCNN. However, DETR suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Peng Gao , Minghang Zheng , Xiaogang Wang , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

Tiny object detection plays a vital role in drone surveillance, remote sensing, and autonomous systems, enabling the identification of small targets across vast landscapes. However, existing methods suffer from inefficient feature leverage…

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Despite previous DETR-like methods having performed successfully in generic object detection, tiny object detection is still a challenging task for them since the positional information of object queries is not customized for detecting tiny…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yi-Xin Huang , Hou-I Liu , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Interactive image segmentation enables users to interact minimally with a machine, facilitating the gradual refinement of the segmentation mask for a target of interest. Previous studies have demonstrated impressive performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kun Li , Hao Cheng , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Skin lesion segmentation from dermoscopy images is of great importance for improving the quantitative analysis of skin cancer. However, the automatic segmentation of melanoma is a very challenging task owing to the large variation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Jiacheng Wang , Lan Wei , Liansheng Wang , Qichao Zhou , Lei Zhu , Jing Qin

Due to the wide existence and large morphological variances of nuclei, accurate nuclei instance segmentation is still one of the most challenging tasks in computational pathology. The annotating of nuclei instances, requiring experienced…

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We propose Masked-Attention Transformers for Surgical Instrument Segmentation (MATIS), a two-stage, fully transformer-based method that leverages modern pixel-wise attention mechanisms for instrument segmentation. MATIS exploits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Nicolás Ayobi , Alejandra Pérez-Rondón , Santiago Rodríguez , Pablo Arbeláez

DETR-based methods, which use multi-layer transformer decoders to refine object queries iteratively, have shown promising performance in 3D indoor object detection. However, the scene point features in the transformer decoder remain fixed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Chuxin Wang , Wenfei Yang , Xiang Liu , Tianzhu Zhang

Understanding user intent is essential for situational and context-aware decision-making. Motivated by a real-world scenario, this work addresses intent predictions of smart device users in the vicinity of vehicles by modeling sequential…