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We explore the capability of plain Vision Transformers (ViTs) for semantic segmentation and propose the SegVit. Previous ViT-based segmentation networks usually learn a pixel-level representation from the output of the ViT. Differently, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Bowen Zhang , Zhi Tian , Quan Tang , Xiangxiang Chu , Xiaolin Wei , Chunhua Shen , Yifan Liu

From the autonomous car driving to medical diagnosis, the requirement of the task of image segmentation is everywhere. Segmentation of an image is one of the indispensable tasks in computer vision. This task is comparatively complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Farhana Sultana , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta

We consider referring image segmentation. It is a problem at the intersection of computer vision and natural language understanding. Given an input image and a referring expression in the form of a natural language sentence, the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

Our work expands the use of capsule networks to the task of object segmentation for the first time in the literature. This is made possible via the introduction of locally-constrained routing and transformation matrix sharing, which reduces…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rodney LaLonde , Ziyue Xu , Ismail Irmakci , Sanjay Jain , Ulas Bagci

We propose a novel method for semantic segmentation, the task of labeling each pixel in an image with a semantic class. Our method combines the advantages of the two main competing paradigms. Methods based on region classification offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Holger Caesar , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Image semantic segmentation is more and more being of interest for computer vision and machine learning researchers. Many applications on the rise need accurate and efficient segmentation mechanisms: autonomous driving, indoor navigation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Alberto Garcia-Garcia , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Sergiu Oprea , Victor Villena-Martinez , Jose Garcia-Rodriguez

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks. However, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Jiaxing Xu , Zongrui Li , Yiping Ke , Xudong Jiang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Song Bai

Multi-scale context module and single-stage encoder-decoder structure are commonly employed for semantic segmentation. The multi-scale context module refers to the operations to aggregate feature responses from a large spatial extent, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Bowen Cheng , Liang-Chieh Chen , Yunchao Wei , Yukun Zhu , Zilong Huang , Jinjun Xiong , Thomas Huang , Wen-Mei Hwu , Honghui Shi

Semantic segmentation requires a detailed labeling of image pixels by object category. Information derived from local image patches is necessary to describe the detailed shape of individual objects. However, this information is ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Hexiang Hu , Zhiwei Deng , Guang-tong Zhou , Fei Sha , Greg Mori

Vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in classification by leveraging global self-attention to capture long-range dependencies. However, this same mechanism can obscure fine-grained spatial details crucial for tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sina Hajimiri , Farzad Beizaee , Fereshteh Shakeri , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

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

Vision transformers have established a precedent of patchifying images into uniformly-sized chunks before processing. We hypothesize that this design choice may limit models in learning comprehensive and compositional representations from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Neha Kalibhat , Priyatham Kattakinda , Sumit Nawathe , Arman Zarei , Nikita Seleznev , Samuel Sharpe , Senthil Kumar , Soheil Feizi

Two-stage and query-based instance segmentation methods have achieved remarkable results. However, their segmented masks are still very coarse. In this paper, we present Mask Transfiner for high-quality and efficient instance segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Xia Li , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

High-resolution image segmentation remains challenging and error-prone due to the enormous size of intermediate feature maps. Conventional methods avoid this problem by using patch based approaches where each patch is segmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fahim Faisal Niloy , M. Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali , AKM Mahbubur Rahman

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the image region of interest according to the given language expression, which is a typical multi-modal task. Existing methods either adopt the pixel classification-based or the learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhichao Wei , Xiaohao Chen , Mingqiang Chen , Siyu Zhu

The fully convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture has been the standard paradigm for semantic segmentation. The encoder-decoder architecture utilizes an encoder to capture multilevel feature maps, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang

Predicting the future is an important aspect for decision-making in robotics or autonomous driving systems, which heavily rely upon visual scene understanding. While prior work attempts to predict future video pixels, anticipate activities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Hsu-kuang Chiu , Ehsan Adeli , Juan Carlos Niebles

Recent advances in deep learning, especially deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to significant improvement over previous semantic segmentation systems. Here we show how to improve pixel-wise semantic segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Panqu Wang , Pengfei Chen , Ye Yuan , Ding Liu , Zehua Huang , Xiaodi Hou , Garrison Cottrell

We introduce a new image segmentation task, called Entity Segmentation (ES), which aims to segment all visual entities (objects and stuffs) in an image without predicting their semantic labels. By removing the need of class label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Yi Wang , Jiuxiang Gu , Hengshuang Zhao , Zhe Lin , Philip Torr , Jiaya Jia