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Multi-focus image fusion is a technique for obtaining an all-in-focus image in which all objects are in focus to extend the limited depth of field (DoF) of an imaging system. Different from traditional RGB-based methods, this paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Hang Liu , Hengyu Li , Jun Luo , Shaorong Xie , Yu Sun

In this paper, we introduce a framework for segmenting instances of a common object class by multiple active contour evolution over semantic segmentation maps of images obtained through fully convolutional networks. The contour evolution is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Przemyslaw Polewski , Jacquelyn Shelton , Wei Yao , Marco Heurich

Multi-modality image fusion and segmentation play a vital role in autonomous driving and robotic operation. Early efforts focus on boosting the performance for only one task, \emph{e.g.,} fusion or segmentation, making it hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jinyuan Liu , Zhu Liu , Guanyao Wu , Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Wei Zhong , Zhongxuan Luo , Xin Fan

Feature extraction from infrared (IR) images remains a challenging task. Learning based methods that can work on raw imagery/patches have therefore assumed significance. We propose a novel multi-task extension of the widely used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-04 Xuelu Li , Vishal Monga

In the study, we present AMFusionNet, an innovative approach to infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF), harnessing the power of multiple kernel sizes and attention mechanisms. By assimilating thermal details from infrared images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Qian Xu

Segmentation of medical images constitutes an essential component of medical image analysis, providing the foundation for precise diagnosis and efficient therapeutic interventions in clinical practices. Despite substantial progress, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muzammal Shafique , Nasir Rahim , Jamil Ahmad , Mohammad Siadat , Khalid Malik , Ghaus Malik

Integrating high-level context information with low-level details is of central importance in semantic segmentation. Towards this end, most existing segmentation models apply bilinear up-sampling and convolutions to feature maps of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Hanzhe Hu , Yinbo Chen , Jiarui Xu , Shubhankar Borse , Hong Cai , Fatih Porikli , Xiaolong Wang

With the development of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), many efforts have been made to handle medical image segmentation. Traditional methods such as nnUNet train specific segmentation models on the individual datasets. Plenty of recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Xiaobao Wei , Jiajun Cao , Yizhu Jin , Ming Lu , Guangyu Wang , Shanghang Zhang

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to utilize the complementary information from two modalities to generate fused images with prominent targets and rich texture details. Most existing algorithms only perform pixel-level or feature-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Kun Hu , Qingle Zhang , Maoxun Yuan , Yitian Zhang

Infrared thermography has been widely used in several domains to capture and measure temperature distributions across surfaces and objects. This methodology can be further expanded to 3D applications if the spatial distribution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jincheng Zhang , Kevin Brink , Andrew R Willis

Active Shape Models (ASM) are an iterative segmentation technique to find a landmark-based contour of an object. In each iteration, a least-squares fit of a plausible shape to some detected target landmarks is determined. Finding these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Alma Eguizabal , Peter J. Schreier

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for the problem of structural image segmentation through an interactive model-based approach. Interaction is expressed in the model creation, which is done according to user traces drawn over a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Alexandre Noma , Ana B. V. Graciano , Luis Augusto Consularo , Roberto M. Cesar-Jr , Isabelle Bloch

The Active Contour Model (ACM) is a standard image analysis technique whose numerous variants have attracted an enormous amount of research attention across multiple fields. Incorrectly, however, the ACM's differential-equation-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Ali Hatamizadeh , Debleena Sengupta , Demetri Terzopoulos

Image segmentation is an important task in the domain of computer vision and medical imaging. In natural and medical images, intensity inhomogeneity, i.e. the varying image intensity, occurs often and it poses considerable challenges for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-04 Raymond Chan , Hongfei Yang , Tieyong Zeng

Image Forgery Localization (IFL) technology aims to detect and locate the forged areas in an image, which is very important in the field of digital forensics. However, existing IFL methods suffer from feature degradation during training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yakun Niu , Pei Chen , Lei Zhang , Lei Tan , Yingjian Chen

Infrared (IR) imaging is commonly used in various scenarios, including autonomous driving, fire safety and defense applications. Thus, semantic segmentation of such images is of great interest. However, this task faces several challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Junno Yun , Mehmet Akçakaya

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) consists of passive reflective elements capable of altering impinging waveforms. The IRS-aided radar systems have recently been shown to improve detection and estimation performance by exploiting the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Zahra Esmaeilbeig , Arian Eamaz , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Mojtaba Soltanalian

Active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enables flexible signal reflection control with \emph{power amplification}, thus effectively compensating the product-distance path-loss in conventional passive-IRS aided systems. In this letter,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yunli Li , Changsheng You , Young Jin Chun

Parabolic mean curvature flow-driven active contour models (PMCF-ACMs) are widely used for image segmentation, yet they suffer severe degradation under high-intensity noise because gradient-descent evolutions exhibit the well-known zig-zag…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Saiyu Hu , Chunlei He , Jianfeng Zhang , Dexing Kong , Shoujun Huang

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang