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Pixel-level semantic segmentation is a challenging task with a huge amount of computation, especially if the size of input is large. In the segmentation model, apart from the feature extraction, the extra decoder structure is often employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Xiaoyu Chen , Xiaotian Lou , Lianfa Bai , Jing Han

Recent works have made great progress in semantic segmentation by exploiting richer context, most of which are designed from a spatial perspective. In contrast to previous works, we present the concept of class center which extracts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Fan Zhang , Yanqin Chen , Zhihang Li , Zhibin Hong , Jingtuo Liu , Feifei Ma , Junyu Han , Errui Ding

Grain-edge segmentation (GES) and lithology semantic segmentation (LSS) are two pivotal tasks for quantifying rock fabric and composition. However, these two tasks are often treated separately, and the segmentation quality is implausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yili Ren , Shiqi Wen , Li Hou , Dingwen Xiao , Weiming Zhang , Caleb Chen Cao , Lin Wang , Zilu Zheng , Qianxiao Su , Mingjun Zhao , Lei Chen

Most existing RGB-D semantic segmentation methods focus on the feature level fusion, including complex cross-modality and cross-scale fusion modules. However, these methods may cause misalignment problem in the feature fusion process and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Xiaoyan Jiang , Bohan Wang , Xinlong Wan , Shanshan Chen , Hamido Fujita , Hanan Abd. Al Juaid

Modern approaches typically formulate semantic segmentation as a per-pixel classification task, while instance-level segmentation is handled with an alternative mask classification. Our key insight: mask classification is sufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Bowen Cheng , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov

Semantic segmentation classifies each pixel in the image. Due to its advantages, semantic segmentation is used in many tasks, such as cancer detection, robot-assisted surgery, satellite image analysis, and self-driving cars. Accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Reihaneh Teymoori , Zahra Nabizadeh , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

The key to integrating visual language tasks is to establish a good alignment strategy. Recently, visual semantic representation has achieved fine-grained visual understanding by dividing grids or image patches. However, the coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Siyu Zhang , Yeming Chen , Yaoru Sun , Fang Wang , Jun Yang , Lizhi Bai , Shangce Gao

Existing image foundation models are not optimized for spherical images having been trained primarily on perspective images. PanoSAMic integrates the pre-trained Segment Anything (SAM) encoder to make use of its extensive training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mahdi Chamseddine , Didier Stricker , Jason Rambach

Semantic correspondence, the task of determining relationships between different parts of images, underpins various applications including 3D reconstruction, image-to-image translation, object tracking, and visual place recognition. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Frank Fundel , Johannes Schusterbauer , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task that associates a label with each pixel in an image. Modern approaches tend to introduce class embeddings into semantic segmentation for deeply utilizing category semantics, and regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yuhe Liu , Chuanjian Liu , Kai Han , Quan Tang , Zengchang Qin

Image fusion methods and metrics for their evaluation have conventionally used pixel-based or low-level features. However, for many applications, the aim of image fusion is to effectively combine the semantic content of the input images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 P. R. Hill , D. R. Bull

In image restoration (IR), leveraging semantic priors from segmentation models has been a common approach to improve performance. The recent segment anything model (SAM) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting advanced semantic priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Quan Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Wei Li , Hanting Chen , Junchao Liu , Jie Hu , Zhiwei Xiong , Chun Yuan , Yunhe Wang

In this paper, we focus on exploring effective methods for faster and accurate semantic segmentation. A common practice to improve the performance is to attain high-resolution feature maps with strong semantic representation. Two strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Kuiyuan Yang , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

We propose and study a task we name panoptic segmentation (PS). Panoptic segmentation unifies the typically distinct tasks of semantic segmentation (assign a class label to each pixel) and instance segmentation (detect and segment each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Alexander Kirillov , Kaiming He , Ross Girshick , Carsten Rother , Piotr Dollár

Semantic segmentation, like other fields of computer vision, has seen a remarkable performance advance by the use of deep convolution neural networks. However, considering that neighboring pixels are heavily dependent on each other, both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hyojin Park , Jisoo Jeong , Youngjoon Yoo , Nojun Kwak

Federated semantic segmentation enables pixel-level classification in images through collaborative learning while maintaining data privacy. However, existing research commonly overlooks the fine-grained class relationships within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xiaoyang Yu , Xiaoming Wu , Xin Wang , Dongrun Li , Ming Yang , Peng Cheng

From video, we reconstruct a neural volume that captures time-varying color, density, scene flow, semantics, and attention information. The semantics and attention let us identify salient foreground objects separately from the background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yiqing Liang , Eliot Laidlaw , Alexander Meyerowitz , Srinath Sridhar , James Tompkin

Salient object detection has achieved great improvement by using the Fully Convolution Network (FCN). However, the FCN-based U-shape architecture may cause the dilution problem in the high-level semantic information during the up-sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Guangyu Ren , Tianhong Dai , Panagiotis Barmpoutis , Tania Stathaki

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with highly oscillatory solutions on complex domains remains a challenging and important problem. High-frequency oscillations and intricate geometries often result in prohibitively expensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Gareth Hardwick , Haizhao Yang

This paper presents a deep architecture for dense semantic correspondence, called pyramidal affine regression networks (PARN), that estimates locally-varying affine transformation fields across images. To deal with intra-class appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Sangryul Jeon , Seungryong Kim , Dongbo Min , Kwanghoon Sohn