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Scene parsing, or semantic segmentation, consists in labeling each pixel in an image with the category of the object it belongs to. It is a challenging task that involves the simultaneous detection, segmentation and recognition of all the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Clément Farabet , Camille Couprie , Laurent Najman , Yann LeCun

In unsupervised feature learning, sample specificity based methods ignore the inter-class information, which deteriorates the discriminative capability of representation models. Clustering based methods are error-prone to explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yifei Zhang , Chang Liu , Yu Zhou , Wei Wang , Weiping Wang , Qixiang Ye

This paper studies the context aggregation problem in semantic image segmentation. The existing researches focus on improving the pixel representations by aggregating the contextual information within individual images. Though impressive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhenchao Jin , Tao Gong , Dongdong Yu , Qi Chu , Jian Wang , Changhu Wang , Jie Shao

Spike sorting is a fundamental preprocessing step for many neuroscience studies which rely on the analysis of spike trains. In this paper, we present two unsupervised spike sorting algorithms based on discriminative subspace learning. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Mohammad Reza Keshtkaran , Zhi Yang

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods leverage unlabeled data by pseudo-labeling them. Thus the success of these methods hinges on the reliablility of the pseudo-labels. Existing methods mostly choose high-confidence pixels in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Prantik Howlader , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Hierarchical clustering is an effective and efficient approach widely used for classical image segmentation methods. However, many existing methods using neural networks generate segmentation masks directly from per-pixel features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Teppei Suzuki

Image processing is an important research area in computer vision. Image segmentation plays the vital rule in image processing research. There exist so many methods for image segmentation. Clustering is an unsupervised study. Clustering can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Dibya Jyoti Bora , Anil Kumar Gupta

Multi-view clustering can explore consistent information from different views to guide clustering. Most existing works focus on pursuing shallow consistency in the feature space and integrating the information of multiple views into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yiyang Zhou , Qinghai Zheng , Wenbiao Yan , Yifei Wang , Pengcheng Shi , Jihua Zhu

Segmentation is a critical task in computational pathology, as it identifies areas affected by disease or abnormal growth and is essential for diagnosis and treatment. However, acquiring high-quality pixel-level supervised segmentation data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zhiling Yan , Sicheng Chen , Tianyi Zhang , Nan Ying , Yanli Lei , Guanglei Zhang

At the most basic level, pixels are the source of the visual information through which we perceive the world. Pixels contain information at all levels, ranging from low-level attributes to high-level concepts. Autoencoders represent a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lihe Yang , Shang-Wen Li , Yang Li , Xinjie Lei , Dong Wang , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Hengshuang Zhao , Hu Xu

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

The goal of unpaired image captioning (UIC) is to describe images without using image-caption pairs in the training phase. Although challenging, we except the task can be accomplished by leveraging a training set of images aligned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Peipei Zhu , Xiao Wang , Yong Luo , Zhenglong Sun , Wei-Shi Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Changwen Chen

We present a general methodology that learns to classify images without labels by leveraging pretrained feature extractors. Our approach involves self-distillation training of clustering heads based on the fact that nearest neighbours in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Nikolas Adaloglou , Felix Michels , Hamza Kalisch , Markus Kollmann

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

The clustering of data into physically meaningful subsets often requires assumptions regarding the number, size, or shape of the subgroups. Here, we present a new method, simultaneous coherent structure coloring (sCSC), which accomplishes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-26 Brooke E. Husic , Kristy L. Schlueter-Kuck , John O. Dabiri

Recently deep neural networks, which require a large amount of annotated samples, have been widely applied in nuclei instance segmentation of H\&E stained pathology images. However, it is inefficient and unnecessary to label all pixels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Wei Lou , Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Xiang Wan

State of the art methods for semantic image segmentation are trained in a supervised fashion using a large corpus of fully labeled training images. However, gathering such a corpus is expensive, due to human annotation effort, in contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Radek Mackowiak , Philip Lenz , Omair Ghori , Ferran Diego , Oliver Lange , Carsten Rother

The manual annotation of outdoor LiDAR point clouds for instance segmentation is extremely costly and time-consuming. Current methods attempt to reduce this burden but still rely on some form of human labeling. To completely eliminate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yongxuan Lyu , Guangfeng Jiang , Hongsi Liu , Jun Liu

Clustering is viewed as an unsupervised technique, but in practice it requires guidance to uncover meaningful structures. We formalize this with guided clustering, a paradigm that uses a guiding variable to steer the discovery process, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-08 Violaine Courrier , Christophe Biernacki

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