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The prevalent perspectives of scene text recognition are from sequence to sequence (seq2seq) and segmentation. Nevertheless, the former is composed of many components which makes implementation and deployment complicated, while the latter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Hongxiang Cai , Jun Sun , Yichao Xiong

Lung-infected area segmentation is crucial for assessing the severity of lung diseases. However, existing image-text multi-modal methods typically rely on labour-intensive annotations for model training, posing challenges regarding time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Qing En , Yuhong Guo

Easy Read text is one of the main forms of access to information for people with reading difficulties. One of the key characteristics of this type of text is the requirement to split sentences into smaller grammatical segments, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jesús Calleja , Thierry Etchegoyhen , David Ponce

As one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision, semantic segmentation plays an important role in real world applications. Although numerous deep learning models have made notable progress on several mainstream datasets with the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Bin Zhang , Shengjie Zhao , Rongqing Zhang

Detecting small scene text instances in the wild is particularly challenging, where the influence of irregular positions and nonideal lighting often leads to detection errors. We present MixNet, a hybrid architecture that combines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yu-Xiang Zeng , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Xin Li , Ming-Ching Chang

Semantic segmentation stands as a pivotal research focus in computer vision. In the context of industrial image inspection, conventional semantic segmentation models fail to maintain the segmentation consistency of fixed components across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Guoxuan Mao , Ting Cao , Ziyang Li , Yuan Dong

Recently, automated medical image segmentation methods based on deep learning have achieved great success. However, they heavily rely on large annotated datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. Few-shot learning aims to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiayu Huo , Ruiqiang Xiao , Haotian Zheng , Yang Liu , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

Parsing sketches via semantic segmentation is attractive but challenging, because (i) free-hand drawings are abstract with large variances in depicting objects due to different drawing styles and skills; (ii) distorting lines drawn on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Junkun Jiang , Ruomei Wang , Shujin Lin , Fei Wang

Recently, scene text detection has been a challenging task. Texts with arbitrary shape or large aspect ratio are usually hard to detect. Previous segmentation-based methods can describe curve text more accurately but suffer from over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qi Zhao , Yufei Wang , Shuchang Lyu , Lijiang Chen

Recently, tampered text detection has attracted increasing attention due to its essential role in information security. Although existing methods can detect the tampered text region, the interpretation of such detection remains unclear,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Chenfan Qu , Jian Liu , Haoxing Chen , Baihan Yu , Jingjing Liu , Weiqiang Wang , Lianwen Jin

Document understanding in real-world applications often requires processing heterogeneous, multi-page document packets containing multiple documents stitched together. Despite recent advances in visual document understanding, the…

Recent work has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be applied successfully in disparity estimation, but these methods still suffer from errors in regions of low-texture, occlusions and reflections. Concurrently, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Junming Zhang , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Semantic segmentation is a challenging computer vision task demanding a significant amount of pixel-level annotated data. Producing such data is a time-consuming and costly process, especially for domains with a scarcity of experts, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Sara Mousavi , Zhenning Yang , Kelley Cross , Dawnie Steadman , Audris Mockus

Given a reference object of an unknown type in an image, human observers can effortlessly find the objects of the same category in another image and precisely tell their visual boundaries. Such visual cognition capability of humans seems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Lechao Cheng , Zunlei Feng , Xinchao Wang , Ya Jie Liu , Jie Lei , Mingli Song

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in visual scene understanding. We focus on the supervised setting, where ground-truth semantic annotations are available. Based on knowledge about the high regularity of real-world scenes, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Stamatis Alexandropoulos , Christos Sakaridis , Petros Maragos

Traditional video reasoning segmentation methods rely on supervised fine-tuning, which limits generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and lacks explicit reasoning. To address this, we propose \textbf{VideoSeg-R1}, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zishan Xu , Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Fengyu Yang , Junxin Li

The proliferation of textual data on the Internet presents a unique opportunity for institutions and companies to monitor public opinion about their services and products. Given the rapid generation of such data, the text stream mining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Cristiano Mesquita Garcia , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Alceu de Souza Britto , Jean Paul Barddal

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge, particularly for long-tail domains such as literary works. However, the critical step of document segmentation in RAG remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ruikang Zhang , Zhanni Chen , Yiqiao Cai , Qi Su

Segmentation has been a major task in neuroimaging. A large number of automated methods have been developed for segmenting healthy and diseased brain tissues. In recent years, deep learning techniques have attracted a lot of attention as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Jimit Doshi , Guray Erus , Mohamad Habes , Christos Davatzikos

While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm for boosting large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks, it often overlooks the crucial aspect of text chunking within its workflow. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jihao Zhao , Zhiyuan Ji , Yuchen Feng , Pengnian Qi , Simin Niu , Bo Tang , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li