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Two factors have proven to be very important to the performance of semantic segmentation models: global context and multi-level semantics. However, generating features that capture both factors always leads to high computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qi Song , Kangfu Mei , Rui Huang

Recent works have made great progress in semantic segmentation by exploiting contextual information in a local or global manner with dilated convolutions, pyramid pooling or self-attention mechanism. In order to avoid potential misleading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Hanzhe Hu , Deyi Ji , Weihao Gan , Shuai Bai , Wei Wu , Junjie Yan

Most current semantic segmentation approaches fall back on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, their use of convolution operations with local receptive fields causes failures in modeling contextual spatial relations. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Exploring contextual information in convolution neural networks (CNNs) has gained substantial attention in recent years for semantic segmentation. This paper introduces a Bi-directional Contextual Aggregating Network, called BiCANet, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Quan Zhou , Dechun Cong , Bin Kang , Xiaofu Wu , Baoyu Zheng , Huimin Lu , Longin Jan Latecki

The accurate detection and segmentation of pavement distresses, particularly tiny and small cracks, are critical for early intervention and preventive maintenance in transportation infrastructure. Traditional manual inspection methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Blessing Agyei Kyem , Joshua Kofi Asamoah , Armstrong Aboah

Co-occurrent visual pattern makes aggregating contextual information a common paradigm to enhance the pixel representation for semantic image segmentation. The existing approaches focus on modeling the context from the perspective of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Zhenchao Jin , Bin Liu , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

It is a challenging task to accurately perform semantic segmentation due to the complexity of real picture scenes. Many semantic segmentation methods based on traditional deep learning insufficiently captured the semantic and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Haitong Tang , Shuang He , Mengduo Yang , Xia Lu , Qin Yu , Kaiyue Liu , Hongjie Yan , Nizhuan Wang

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in computer vision; however, their black-box nature in decision-making limits interpretability and trust, particularly in safety-critical applications. Interpretability is crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ran Eisenberg , Amit Rozner , Ethan Fetaya , Ofir Lindenbaum

Semantic segmentation has made significant progress in recent years thanks to deep neural networks, but the common objective of generating a single segmentation output that accurately matches the image's content may not be suitable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Lukas Zbinden , Lars Doorenbos , Theodoros Pissas , Adrian Thomas Huber , Raphael Sznitman , Pablo Márquez-Neila

In this paper, we introduce the semantic knowledge of medical images from their diagnostic reports to provide an inspirational network training and an interpretable prediction mechanism with our proposed novel multimodal neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Zizhao Zhang , Pingjun Chen , Manish Sapkota , Lin Yang

Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) aims to simultaneously predict the volumetric occupancy and semantic category of a 3D scene. It helps intelligent devices to understand and interact with the surrounding scenes. Due to the high-memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Yinjie Lei , Huchuan Lu , Xiaoyun Yang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been used extensively for computer vision tasks and produce rich feature representation for objects or parts of an image. But reasoning about scenes requires integration between the low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Syed Ashar Javed , Anil Kumar Nelakanti

Segmentation-based methods are widely used for scene text detection due to their superiority in describing arbitrary-shaped text instances. However, two major problems still exist: 1) current label generation techniques are mostly empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Chenwei Cui , Liangfu Lu , Zhiyuan Tan , Amir Hussain

Zero-shot learning has been actively studied for image classification task to relieve the burden of annotating image labels. Interestingly, semantic segmentation task requires more labor-intensive pixel-wise annotation, but zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhangxuan Gu , Siyuan Zhou , Li Niu , Zihan Zhao , Liqing Zhang

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of the common solutions exploit class activation map (CAM) to locate object regions. However, such response maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yukun Su , Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

The spatial attention mechanism captures long-range dependencies by aggregating global contextual information to each query location, which is beneficial for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a sparse spatial attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mengyu Liu , Hujun Yin

Temporal action localization is an important and challenging task that aims to locate temporal regions in real-world untrimmed videos where actions occur and recognize their classes. It is widely acknowledged that video context is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xin Qin , Hanbin Zhao , Guangchen Lin , Hao Zeng , Songcen Xu , Xi Li

We present a two-module approach to semantic segmentation that incorporates Convolutional Networks (CNNs) and Graphical Models. Graphical models are used to generate a small (5-30) set of diverse segmentations proposals, such that this set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Michael Cogswell , Xiao Lin , Senthil Purushwalkam , Dhruv Batra

Text-guided medical segmentation enhances segmentation accuracy by utilizing clinical reports as auxiliary information. However, existing methods typically rely on unaligned image and text encoders, which necessitate complex interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Gaoren Lin , Huangxuan Zhao , Yuan Xiong , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du , Wentao Zhu