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Brain MR image segmentation is a key task in neuroimaging studies. It is commonly conducted using standard computational tools, such as FSL, SPM, multi-atlas segmentation etc, which are often registration-based and suffer from expensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Chengliang Dai , Yuanhan Mo , Elsa Angelini , Yike Guo , Wenjia Bai

We address interactive panoptic annotation, where one segment all object and stuff regions in an image. We investigate two graph-based segmentation algorithms that both enforce connectivity of each region, with a notable class-aware Integer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Ruobing Shen , Bo Tang , Andrea Lodi , Ismail Ben Ayed , Thomas Guthier

Image annotation aims to annotate a given image with a variable number of class labels corresponding to diverse visual concepts. In this paper, we address two main issues in large-scale image annotation: 1) how to learn a rich feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Yulei Niu , Zhiwu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen , Tao Xiang , Shih-Fu Chang

Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for very high resolution images requires a large quantity of high-quality pixel-level annotations, which is extremely labor- and time-consuming to produce. Moreover, professional photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuansheng Hua , Diego Marcos , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Devis Tuia

We present a weakly supervised model that jointly performs both semantic- and instance-segmentation -- a particularly relevant problem given the substantial cost of obtaining pixel-perfect annotation for these tasks. In contrast to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qizhu Li , Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S. Torr

Semantic segmentation methods have achieved outstanding performance thanks to deep learning. Nevertheless, when such algorithms are deployed to new contexts not seen during training, it is necessary to collect and label scene-specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Daniele Di Mauro , Antonino Furnari , Giuseppe Patanè , Sebastiano Battiato , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Most contemporary robots have depth sensors, and research on semantic segmentation with RGBD images has shown that depth images boost the accuracy of segmentation. Since it is time-consuming to annotate images with semantic labels per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Kohei Watanabe , Kuniaki Saito , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Assigning a label to each pixel in an image, namely semantic segmentation, has been an important task in computer vision, and has applications in autonomous driving, robotic navigation, localization, and scene understanding. Fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Sercan Türkmen , Janne Heikkilä

High annotation costs are a major bottleneck for the training of semantic segmentation systems. Therefore, methods working with less annotation effort are of special interest. This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Olga Zatsarynna , Johann Sawatzky , Juergen Gall

It is generally accepted that one of the critical parts of current vision algorithms based on deep learning and convolutional neural networks is the annotation of a sufficient number of images to achieve competitive performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Kai Yao , Alberto Ortiz , Francisco Bonnin-Pascual

3D semantic scene understanding tasks have achieved great success with the emergence of deep learning, but often require a huge amount of manually annotated training data. To alleviate the annotation cost, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shichao Dong , Guosheng Lin

Event cameras excel in capturing high-contrast scenes and dynamic objects, offering a significant advantage over traditional frame-based cameras. Despite active research into leveraging event cameras for semantic segmentation, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Hoonhee Cho , Sung-Hoon Yoon , Hyeokjun Kweon , Kuk-Jin Yoon

While image segmentation is crucial in various computer vision applications, such as autonomous driving, grasping, and robot navigation, annotating all objects at the pixel-level for training is nearly impossible. Therefore, the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Cuong Manh Hoang , Byeongkeun Kang

Few-shot video object segmentation aims to reduce annotation costs; however, existing methods still require abundant dense frame annotations for training, which are scarce in the medical domain. We investigate an extremely low-data regime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zixuan Zheng , Yilei Shi , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Image segmentation is still an open problem especially when intensities of the interested objects are overlapped due to the presence of intensity inhomogeneity (also known as bias field). To segment images with intensity inhomogeneities, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Chaolu Feng

In order to successfully perform manipulation tasks in new environments, such as grasping, robots must be proficient in segmenting unseen objects from the background and/or other objects. Previous works perform unseen object instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Howard H. Qian , Yangxiao Lu , Kejia Ren , Gaotian Wang , Ninad Khargonkar , Yu Xiang , Kaiyu Hang

Understanding the complex urban infrastructure with centimeter-level accuracy is essential for many applications from autonomous driving to mapping, infrastructure monitoring, and urban management. Aerial images provide valuable information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Seyed Majid Azimi , Corentin Henry , Lars Sommer , Arne Schumann , Eleonora Vig

Active learning enhances annotation efficiency by selecting the most revealing samples for labeling, thereby reducing reliance on extensive human input. Previous methods in semantic segmentation have centered on individual pixels or small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinchao Ge , Zeyu Zhang , Minh Hieu Phan , Bowen Zhang , Akide Liu , Yang Zhao , Shuwen Zhao

This paper investigates indoor point cloud semantic segmentation under scene-level annotation, which is less explored compared to methods relying on sparse point-level labels. In the absence of precise point-level labels, current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Xingxing Weng , Jing Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Interactive image segmentation algorithms rely on the user to provide annotations as the guidance. When the task of interactive segmentation is performed on a small touchscreen device, the requirement of providing precise annotations could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Ding-Jie Chen , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Long-Wen Chang