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Monocular depth estimation is an essential task for scene understanding. The underlying structure of objects and stuff in a complex scene is critical to recovering accurate and visually-pleasing depth maps. Global structure conveys scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Xiaotian Chen , Xuejin Chen , Zheng-Jun Zha

In this article, we present a novel box-covering algorithm for analyzing the fractal properties of complex networks. Unlike traditional algorithms that impose a predetermined box size, our approach assigns nodes to boxes identified by their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-23 Michal Lepek , Kordian Makulski , Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak

This paper introduces Progressively Diffused Networks (PDNs) for unifying multi-scale context modeling with deep feature learning, by taking semantic image segmentation as an exemplar application. Prior neural networks, such as ResNet, tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Ruimao Zhang , Wei Yang , Zhanglin Peng , Xiaogang Wang , Liang Lin

Recently, state-of-the-art results have been achieved in semantic segmentation using fully convolutional networks (FCNs). Most of these networks employ encoder-decoder style architecture similar to U-Net and are trained with images and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Balamurali Murugesan , Kaushik Sarveswaran , Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Recent advances in deep learning, like 3D fully convolutional networks (FCNs), have improved the state-of-the-art in dense semantic segmentation of medical images. However, most network architectures require severely downsampling or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Holger R. Roth , Chen Shen , Hirohisa Oda , Takaaki Sugino , Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Kazunari Misawa , Kensaku Mori

Semantic segmentation is pixel-wise classification which retains critical spatial information. The "feature map reuse" has been commonly adopted in CNN based approaches to take advantage of feature maps in the early layers for the later…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Mingmin Zhen , Jinglu Wang , Lei Zhou , Tian Fang , Long Quan

Feature pyramid network (FPN) based models, which fuse the semantics and salient details in a progressive manner, have been proven highly effective in salient object detection. However, it is observed that these models often generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zun Li , Congyan Lang , Junhao Liew , Qibin Hou , Yidong Li , Jiashi Feng

This paper introduces a deep architecture for segmenting 3D objects into their labeled semantic parts. Our architecture combines image-based Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) and surface-based Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Evangelos Kalogerakis , Melinos Averkiou , Subhransu Maji , Siddhartha Chaudhuri

This paper proposes FractalNet, a framework based on fractal design principles that automatically generates and evaluates convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures using recursive template patterns. Rather than relying on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yash Mittal , Dmitry Ignatov , Radu Timofte

In recent years, deformable medical image registration techniques have made significant progress. However, existing models still lack efficiency in parallel extraction of coarse and fine-grained features. To address this, we construct a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Ying Zhang , Shuai Guo , Chenxi Sun , Yuchen Zhu , Jinhai Xiang

Prior-Data Fitted Networks (PFNs) enable amortized Bayesian inference in a single forward pass, yet their internal representations remain opaque. It is unknown whether PFNs encode identifiable Bayesian structure or merely memorize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kaustubh Sharma , Srijan Tiwari , Ojasva Nema , Parikshit Pareek

Current state-of-the-art convolutional architectures for object detection are manually designed. Here we aim to learn a better architecture of feature pyramid network for object detection. We adopt Neural Architecture Search and discover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Golnaz Ghiasi , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le

The Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) presents a remarkable approach to alleviate the scale variance in object representation by performing instance-level assignments. Nevertheless, this strategy ignores the distinct characteristics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lin Song , Yanwei Li , Zhengkai Jiang , Zeming Li , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

Semantic segmentation is a pixel-level prediction task to classify each pixel of the input image. Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extremely successful in achieving excellent performances in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Nadeem Atif , Saquib Mazhar , Debajit Sarma , M. K. Bhuyan , Shaik Rafi Ahamed

In this paper, we propose a pyramid network structure to improve the FCN-based segmentation solutions and apply it to label thyroid follicles in histology images. Our design is based on the notion that a hierarchical updating scheme, if…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zhewei Wang , Weizhen Cai , Charles D. Smith , Noriko Kantake , Thomas J. Rosol , Jundong Liu

We explore architectures for general pixel-level prediction problems, from low-level edge detection to mid-level surface normal estimation to high-level semantic segmentation. Convolutional predictors, such as the fully-convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Aayush Bansal , Xinlei Chen , Bryan Russell , Abhinav Gupta , Deva Ramanan

In this paper we propose a deep learning approach for segmenting sub-cortical structures of the human brain in Magnetic Resonance (MR) image data. We draw inspiration from a state-of-the-art Fully-Convolutional Neural Network (F-CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Mahsa Shakeri , Stavros Tsogkas , Enzo Ferrante , Sarah Lippe , Samuel Kadoury , Nikos Paragios , Iasonas Kokkinos

In this paper, we propose a Point Fractal Network (PF-Net), a novel learning-based approach for precise and high-fidelity point cloud completion. Unlike existing point cloud completion networks, which generate the overall shape of the point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zitian Huang , Yikuan Yu , Jiawen Xu , Feng Ni , Xinyi Le

We desgin a novel fully convolutional network architecture for shapes, denoted by Shape Fully Convolutional Networks (SFCN). 3D shapes are represented as graph structures in the SFCN architecture, based on novel graph convolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Pengyu Wang , Yuan Gan , Panpan Shui , Fenggen Yu , Yan Zhang , Songle Chen , Zhengxing Sun

Feature pyramids have been widely adopted in convolutional neural networks and transformers for tasks in medical image segmentation. However, existing models generally focus on the Encoder-side Transformer for feature extraction. We further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hongyi Cai , Mohammad Mahdinur Rahman , Wenzhen Dong , Jingyu Wu