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Melanoma is a malignant tumor that originates from skin cell lesions. Accurate and efficient segmentation of skin lesions is essential for quantitative analysis but remains a challenge due to blurred lesion boundaries, gradual color…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Saqib Qamar , Syed Furqan Qadri , Roobaea Alroobaea , Goram Mufarah M Alshmrani , Richard Jiang

Human-centric visual perception (HVP) has recently achieved remarkable progress due to advancements in large-scale self-supervised pretraining (SSP). However, existing HVP models face limitations in adapting to real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xuanhan Wang , Huimin Deng , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song

SimMIM is a widely used method for pretraining vision transformers using masked image modeling. However, despite its success in fine-tuning performance, it has been shown to perform sub-optimally when used for linear probing. We propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Madhava Krishna , A V Subramanyam

We propose a Dynamic Scale Training paradigm (abbreviated as DST) to mitigate scale variation challenge in object detection. Previous strategies like image pyramid, multi-scale training, and their variants are aiming at preparing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yukang Chen , Peizhen Zhang , Zeming Li , Yanwei Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Lu Qi , Jian Sun , Jiaya Jia

Quality assessment of images and videos emphasizes both local details and global semantics, whereas general data sampling methods (e.g., resizing, cropping or grid-based fragment) fail to catch them simultaneously. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yongxu Liu , Yinghui Quan , Guoyao Xiao , Aobo Li , Jinjian Wu

In contrast to comparing faces via single exemplars, matching sets of face images increases robustness and discrimination performance. Recent image set matching approaches typically measure similarities between subspaces or manifolds, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Conrad Sanderson , Mehrtash T. Harandi , Yongkang Wong , Brian C. Lovell

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

The scale ambiguity problem is inherently unsolvable to monocular SLAM without the metric baseline between moving cameras. In this paper, we present a novel scale estimation approach based on an object-level SLAM system. To obtain the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Shuangfu Song , Junqiao Zhao , Tiantian Feng , Chen Ye , Lu Xiong

Though quite challenging, leveraging large-scale unlabeled or partially labeled images in a cost-effective way has increasingly attracted interests for its great importance to computer vision. To tackle this problem, many Active Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Keze Wang , Xiaopeng Yan , Dongyu Zhang , Lei Zhang , Liang Lin

This work proposes a new, online algorithm for estimating the local scale correction to apply to the output of a monocular SLAM system and obtain an as faithful as possible metric reconstruction of the 3D map and of the camera trajectory.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Edgar Sucar , Jean-Bernard Hayet

Semi-supervised change detection (SSCD) aims to detect changes between bi-temporal remote sensing images by utilizing limited labeled data and abundant unlabeled data. Existing methods struggle in complex scenarios, exhibiting poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qi'ao Xu , Pengfei Wang , Yanjun Li , Tianwen Qian , Xiaoling Wang

Recently, learning-based algorithms have achieved promising performance on cross-spectral image patch matching, which, however, is still far from satisfactory for practical application. On the one hand, a lack of large-scale dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Xiuwei Zhang , Yanping Li , Zhaoshuai Qi , Yi Sun , Yanning Zhang

In this paper, we present a fast yet effective method for pixel-level scale-invariant image fusion in spatial domain based on the scale-space theory. Specifically, we propose a scale-invariant structure saliency selection scheme based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Yixiong Liang , Yuan Mao , Jiazhi Xia , Yao Xiang , Jianfeng Liu

Change detection in remote sensing imagery is a critical technique for Earth observation, primarily focusing on pixel-level segmentation of change regions between bi-temporal images. The essence of pixel-level change detection lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sijun Dong , Fangcheng Zuo , Geng Chen , Siming Fu , Xiaoliang Meng

Due to the abundance of 2D product images from the Internet, developing efficient and scalable algorithms to recover the missing depth information is central to many applications. Recent works have addressed the single-view depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Guilin Liu , Chao Yang , Zimo Li , Duygu Ceylan , Qixing Huang

An important capacity in visual object recognition is invariance to image-altering variables which leave the identity of objects unchanged, such as lighting, rotation, and scale. How do neural networks achieve this? Prior mechanistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 André Longon

Class activation map (CAM) has been widely studied for visual explanation of the internal working mechanism of convolutional neural networks. The key of existing CAM-based methods is to compute effective weights to combine activation maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Hui Li , Zihao Li , Rui Ma , Tieru Wu

In this paper, we present a new fault diagnosis (FD) -based approach for detection of imagery changes that can detect significant changes as inconsistencies between different sub-modules (e.g., self-localizaiton) of visual SLAM. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Sugimoto Takuma , Yamaguchi Kousuke , Tanaka Kanji

Extracting image semantics effectively and assigning corresponding labels to multiple objects or attributes for natural images is challenging due to the complex scene contents and confusing label dependencies. Recent works have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Leilei Ma , Dengdi Sun , Lei Wang , Haifeng Zhao , Bin Luo

This work investigates the problem of instance-level image retrieval re-ranking with the constraint of memory efficiency, ultimately aiming to limit memory usage to 1KB per image. Departing from the prevalent focus on performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Pavel Suma , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ahmet Iscen , Giorgos Tolias