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Angiography is widely used to detect, diagnose, and treat cerebrovascular diseases. While numerous techniques have been proposed to segment the vascular network from different imaging modalities, deep learning (DL) has emerged as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Mumu Aktar , Hassan Rivaz , Marta Kersten-Oertel , Yiming Xiao

Multi-camera full-body pose capture of humans and animals in outdoor environments is a highly challenging problem. Our approach to it involves a team of cooperating micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) with on-board cameras only. The key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Eric Price , Guilherme Lawless , Heinrich H. Bülthoff , Michael Black , Aamir Ahmad

We propose a method based on deep learning to perform cardiac segmentation on short axis MRI image stacks iteratively from the top slice (around the base) to the bottom slice (around the apex). At each iteration, a novel variant of U-net is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Qiao Zheng , Hervé Delingette , Nicolas Duchateau , Nicholas Ayache

Reconstructing the intricate local morphology of neurons and their long-range projecting axons can address many connectivity related questions in neuroscience. The main bottleneck in connectomics pipelines is correcting topological errors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Anna Grim , Jayaram Chandrashekar , Uygar Sumbul

Large enough computed tomography (CT) data sets to train supervised deep models are often hard to come by. One contributing issue is the amount of manual labor that goes into creating ground truth labels, specially for volumetric data. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Nil Stolt Ansó

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is an important task for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. Yet, it is still a challenging problem due to the complex vessel structures of an eye. Numerous vessel segmentation methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Ali Karaali , Rozenn Dahyot , Donal J. Sexton

The vascular structure of blood vessels is important in diagnosing retinal conditions such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Accurate segmentation of these vessels can help in detecting retinal objects such as the optic disc and optic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Abdullah Sarhan , Jon Rokne , Reda Alhajj , Andrew Crichton

The task object tracking is vital in numerous applications such as autonomous driving, intelligent surveillance, robotics, etc. This task entails the assigning of a bounding box to an object in a video stream, given only the bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Vladislav Belyaev , Aleksandra Malysheva , Aleksei Shpilman

Monitoring treatment response in longitudinal studies plays an important role in clinical practice. Accurately identifying lesions across serial imaging follow-up is the core to the monitoring procedure. Typically this incorporates both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jinzheng Cai , Youbao Tang , Ke Yan , Adam P. Harrison , Jing Xiao , Gigin Lin , Le Lu

Drones are increasingly used in fields like industry, medicine, research, disaster relief, defense, and security. Technical challenges, such as navigation in GPS-denied environments, hinder further adoption. Research in visual odometry is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Olivier Brochu Dufour , Abolfazl Mohebbi , Sofiane Achiche

Tracking of objects in 3D is a fundamental task in computer vision that finds use in a wide range of applications such as autonomous driving, robotics or augmented reality. Most recent approaches for 3D multi object tracking (MOT) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jan-Nico Zaech , Dengxin Dai , Alexander Liniger , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is typically formulated in a semi-supervised setting. Given the ground-truth segmentation mask on the first frame, the task of VOS is to track and segment the single or multiple objects of interests in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Kaihua Zhang , Long Wang , Dong Liu , Bo Liu , Qingshan Liu , Zhu Li

Tight-frame, a generalization of orthogonal wavelets, has been used successfully in various problems in image processing, including inpainting, impulse noise removal, super-resolution image restoration, etc. Segmentation is the process of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xiaohao Cai , Raymond Chan , Serena Morigi , Fiorella Sgallari

Ischemic stroke, caused by cerebral vessel occlusion, presents substantial challenges in medical imaging due to the variability and subtlety of stroke lesions. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Ashiqur Rahman , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Md Sharjis Ibne Wadud , Rusab Sarmun , Adam Mushtak , Sohaib Bassam Zoghoul , Israa Al-Hashimi

Cerebral X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is a widely used imaging technique in patients with neurovascular disease, allowing for vessel and flow visualization with high spatio-temporal resolution. Automatic artery-vein…

Motion Planning, as a fundamental technology of automatic navigation for the autonomous vehicle, is still an open challenging issue in the real-life traffic situation and is mostly applied by the model-based approaches. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhengwei Bai , Baigen Cai , Wei Shangguan , Linguo Chai

Curvilinear structure segmentation is important in medical imaging, quantifying structures such as vessels, airways, neurons, or organ boundaries in 2D slices. Segmentation via pixel-wise classification often fails to capture the small and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Manxi Lin , Zahra Bashir , Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard , Anders Nymark Christensen , Aasa Feragen

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) have been proven to be effective for various computer vision problems. In this work, we demonstrate its effectiveness on a continuous object orientation estimation task, which requires prediction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Kota Hara , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Rama Chellappa

Reticular structures form the backbone of major infrastructure like bridges, pylons, and airports, but their inspection and maintenance are costly and hazardous, often requiring human intervention. While prior research has focused on fault…

Image segmentation is a fundamental topic in image processing and has been studied for many decades. Deep learning-based supervised segmentation models have achieved state-of-the-art performance but most of them are limited by using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Xu Chen , Xiangde Luo , Yitian Zhao , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang , Yalin Zheng