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Semantic communication is emerging as a promising paradigm that focuses on the extraction and transmission of semantic meanings using deep learning techniques. While current research primarily addresses the reduction of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hang Zhao , Hongru Li , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Real-time semantic image segmentation on platforms subject to size, weight and power (SWaP) constraints is a key area of interest for air surveillance and inspection. In this work, we propose MAVNet: a small, light-weight, deep neural…

Medical image segmentation, particularly in multi-domain scenarios, requires precise preservation of anatomical structures across diverse representations. While deep learning has advanced this field, existing models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afshin Bozorgpour , Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Reza Azad , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on high-resolution images is often bottlenecked by the cost of evaluating gradients of the loss on the finest spatial mesh. To address this, we propose Multiscale Gradient Estimation (MGE), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shadab Ahamed , Niloufar Zakariaei , Eldad Haber , Moshe Eliasof

Road scene understanding is a critical component in an autonomous driving system. Although the deep learning-based road scene segmentation can achieve very high accuracy, its complexity is also very high for developing real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ping-Rong Chen , Hsueh-Ming Hang , Sheng-Wei Chan , Jing-Jhih Lin

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reduces the computational burden on terminal devices by shortening the distance between these devices and computing nodes. Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with enhanced MEC networks can leverage the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhiying Wang , Tianxi Wei , Gang Sun , Xinyue Liu , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

Semantic segmentation of Very High Resolution (VHR) remote sensing images is a fundamental task for many applications. However, large variations in the scales of objects in those VHR images pose a challenge for performing accurate semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yuanzhi Cai , Lei Fan , Yuan Fang

Multimodal semantic communication has gained widespread attention due to its ability to enhance downstream task performance. A key challenge in such systems is the effective fusion of features from different modalities, which requires the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Hongwei Zhang , Meixia Tao

We present a selective sampling method designed to accelerate the training of deep neural networks. To this end, we introduce a novel measurement, the minimal margin score (MMS), which measures the minimal amount of displacement an input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Berry Weinstein , Shai Fine , Yacov Hel-Or

In this paper, a semantic-aware joint communication and computation resource allocation framework is proposed for mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. In the considered system, each terminal device (TD) has a computation task, which needs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Yuntao Hu , Yinlu Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong

Feature matching is a crucial task in the field of computer vision, which involves finding correspondences between images. Previous studies achieve remarkable performance using learning-based feature comparison. However, the pervasive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yesheng Zhang , Xu Zhao

Semantic segmentation networks are usually pre-trained once and not updated during deployment. As a consequence, misclassifications commonly occur if the distribution of the training data deviates from the one encountered during the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jonas Frey , Hermann Blum , Francesco Milano , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Real-time semantic segmentation plays a significant role in industry applications, such as autonomous driving, robotics and so on. It is a challenging task as both efficiency and performance need to be considered simultaneously. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Haiyang Si , Zhiqiang Zhang , Feifan Lv , Gang Yu , Feng Lu

When deploying neural networks in real-life situations, the size and computational effort are often the limiting factors. This is especially true in environments where big, expensive hardware is not affordable, like in embedded medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Erik Ostrowski , Muhammad Shafique

Transforming in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging into a tool for spatially-resolved operando characterization of solid-state reactions requires automated, high-precision semantic segmentation of dynamically evolving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Yushuo Niu , Tianyu Li , Yuanyuan Zhu , Qian Yang

Although deep models have greatly improved the accuracy and robustness of image segmentation, obtaining segmentation results with highly accurate boundaries and fine structures is still a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xuebin Qin , Deng-Ping Fan , Chenyang Huang , Cyril Diagne , Zichen Zhang , Adrià Cabeza Sant'Anna , Albert Suàrez , Martin Jagersand , Ling Shao

Early-exiting neural networks enable adaptive inference by allowing inputs to exit at intermediate classifiers, reducing computation for easy samples while maintaining high accuracy. In practice, exits can be trained sequentially by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Alaa Zniber , Ouassim Karrakchou , Mounir Ghogho

Despite recent progress in text-prompt-based medical image segmentation, these methods are limited to single-round dialogues and fail to support multi-round reasoning, which is important for medical education scenarios. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Qinyue Tong , Ziqian Lu , Jun Liu , Rui Zuo , Zheming Lu , Yueming Jin

Integrating diverse visual capabilities into a unified model is a significant trend in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Among these, the inclusion of segmentation poses a distinct set of challenges. To equip MLLMs with pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiazhen Liu , Long Chen

Matching-based methods, especially those based on space-time memory, are significantly ahead of other solutions in semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). However, continuously growing and redundant template features lead to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zhihui Lin , Tianyu Yang , Maomao Li , Ziyu Wang , Chun Yuan , Wenhao Jiang , Wei Liu