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Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision aimed at delineating object boundaries within images. Traditional approaches, such as edge detection and variational methods, have been widely explored, while recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Junchao Zhou

This paper proposes a novel method for high-quality image segmentation of both objects and scenes. Inspired by the dilation and erosion operations in morphological image processing techniques, the pixel-level image segmentation problems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hao He , Xiangtai Li , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Lubin Weng , Zhouchen Lin , Shiming Xiang

Semantic segmentation is the pixel-wise labelling of an image. Since the problem is defined at the pixel level, determining image class labels only is not acceptable, but localising them at the original image pixel resolution is necessary.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Irem Ulku , Erdem Akagunduz

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show outstanding performance in many image processing problems, such as image recognition, object detection and image segmentation. Semantic segmentation is a very challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Fan Jia , Jun Liu , Xue-cheng Tai

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

Variational level set method has become a powerful tool in image segmentation due to its ability to handle complex topological changes and maintain continuity and smoothness in the process of evolution. However its evolution process can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Fanghui Song , Jiebao Sun , Shengzhu Shi , Zhichang Guo , Dazhi Zhang

Image co-segmentation is a challenging task in computer vision that aims to segment all pixels of the objects from a predefined semantic category. In real-world cases, however, common foreground objects often vary greatly in appearance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Wei Teng , Yu Zhang , Xiaowu Chen , Jia Li , Zhiqiang He

From the autonomous car driving to medical diagnosis, the requirement of the task of image segmentation is everywhere. Segmentation of an image is one of the indispensable tasks in computer vision. This task is comparatively complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Farhana Sultana , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in extracting objects of interest and identifying their boundaries within an image. However, accurate segmentation becomes challenging when dealing with occlusions, obscurities, or noise in corrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Daoping Zhang , Xue-Cheng Tai , Lok Ming Lui

Image segmentation is an important task in the domain of computer vision and medical imaging. In natural and medical images, intensity inhomogeneity, i.e. the varying image intensity, occurs often and it poses considerable challenges for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-04 Raymond Chan , Hongfei Yang , Tieyong Zeng

Building segmentation is of great importance in the task of remote sensing imagery interpretation. However, the existing semantic segmentation and instance segmentation methods often lead to segmentation masks with blurred boundaries. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Qingyu Li , Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Yao Sun , Pu Jin , Yilei Shi , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Current successful approaches for generic (non-semantic) segmentation rely mostly on edge detection and have leveraged the strengths of deep learning mainly by improving the edge detection stage in the algorithmic pipeline. This is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Or Isaacs , Oran Shayer , Michael Lindenbaum

The technology of image segmentation is widely used in medical image processing, face recognition pedestrian detection, etc. The current image segmentation techniques include region-based segmentation, edge detection segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Song Yuheng , Yan Hao

This paper describes a novel method for partitioning image into meaningful segments. The proposed method employs watershed transform, a well-known image segmentation technique. Along with that, it uses various auxiliary schemes such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Ankit R. Chadha , Neha S. Satam

Image segmentation is a vital task for providing human assistance and enhancing autonomy in our daily lives. In particular, RGB-D segmentation-leveraging both visual and depth cues-has attracted increasing attention as it promises richer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Aecheon Jung , Soyun Choi , Junhong Min , Sungeun Hong

Instance segmentation is the problem of detecting and delineating each distinct object of interest appearing in an image. Current instance segmentation approaches consist of ensembles of modules that are trained independently of each other,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Bernardino Romera-Paredes , Philip H. S. Torr

We propose an end-to-end learning framework for segmenting generic objects in both images and videos. Given a novel image or video, our approach produces a pixel-level mask for all "object-like" regions---even for object categories never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Bo Xiong , Suyog Dutt Jain , Kristen Grauman

Semantic segmentation and object detection research have recently achieved rapid progress. However, the former task has no notion of different instances of the same object, and the latter operates at a coarse, bounding-box level. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S Torr

Object detection and semantic segmentation are two main themes in object retrieval from high-resolution remote sensing images, which have recently achieved remarkable performance by surfing the wave of deep learning and, more notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Semantic image segmentation is one of fastest growing areas in computer vision with a variety of applications. In many areas, such as robotics and autonomous vehicles, semantic image segmentation is crucial, since it provides the necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Georgios Takos