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We propose a new fast fully unsupervised method to discover semantic patterns. Our algorithm is able to hierarchically find visual categories and produce a segmentation mask where previous methods fail. Through the modeling of what is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Francesco Pelosin , Andrea Gasparetto , Andrea Albarelli , Andrea Torsello

Surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) on endoscopic images stands as a long-standing and essential task in the context of computer-assisted interventions for boosting minimally invasive surgery. Given the recent surge of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Mingyu Sheng , Jianan Fan , Dongnan Liu , Ron Kikinis , Weidong Cai

Semantic segmentation, which aims to classify every pixel in an image, is a key task in machine perception, with many applications across robotics and autonomous driving. Due to the high dimensionality of this task, most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Alex Zihao Zhu , Jieru Mei , Siyuan Qiao , Hang Yan , Yukun Zhu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Henrik Kretzschmar

The core for tackling the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is to learn subtle yet discriminative features. Most previous works achieve this by explicitly selecting the discriminative parts or integrating the attention mechanism via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jun Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao

Localizing natural language phrases in images is a challenging problem that requires joint understanding of both the textual and visual modalities. In the unsupervised setting, lack of supervisory signals exacerbate this difficulty. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Syed Ashar Javed , Shreyas Saxena , Vineet Gandhi

Image segmentation remains a challenging task in computer vision, demanding robust mask generation and precise classification. Recent mask-based approaches yield high-quality masks by capturing global context. However, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sajjad Shahabodini , Mobina Mansoori , Farnoush Bayatmakou , Jamshid Abouei , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

Semantic Image Interpretation is the task of extracting a structured semantic description from images. This requires the detection of visual relationships: triples (subject,relation,object) describing a semantic relation between a subject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ivan Donadello , Luciano Serafini

Large-scale pretrained vision backbones have transformed computer vision by providing powerful feature extractors that enable various downstream tasks, including training-free approaches like visual prompting for semantic segmentation.…

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing computer vision challenges that involve decomposing an image into semantically-meaningful segments without any labeled data. These tasks are particularly interesting in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We propose a novel unsupervised image segmentation algorithm, which aims to segment an image into several coherent parts. It requires no user input, no supervised learning phase and assumes an unknown number of segments. It achieves this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Aleksandar Dimitriev , Matej Kristan

We propose a new method for semantic instance segmentation, by first computing how likely two pixels are to belong to the same object, and then by grouping similar pixels together. Our similarity metric is based on a deep, fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Alireza Fathi , Zbigniew Wojna , Vivek Rathod , Peng Wang , Hyun Oh Song , Sergio Guadarrama , Kevin P. Murphy

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in capturing global dependencies but often struggle to efficiently represent fine-grained local details. Existing multi-scale approaches alleviate this issue by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qiyang Yu , Yu Fang , Tianrui Li , Xuemei Cao , Yan Chen , Jianghao Li , Fan Min

Semantic segmentation tasks based on weakly supervised condition have been put forward to achieve a lightweight labeling process. For simple images that only include a few categories, researches based on image-level annotations have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Sheng Yi , Yanxian Chen

The quadratic computational complexity to the number of tokens limits the practical applications of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Several works propose to prune redundant tokens to achieve efficient ViTs. However, these methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Ming Lin , Fan Wang , David Junhao Zhang , Rong Jin , Mike Zheng Shou

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang

Finding the eye and parsing out the parts (e.g. pupil and iris) is a key prerequisite for image-based eye tracking, which has become an indispensable module in today's head-mounted VR/AR devices. However, a typical route for training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jiangfan Deng , Zhuang Jia , Zhaoxue Wang , Xiang Long , Daniel K. Du

Detecting navigable space is a fundamental capability for mobile robots navigating in unknown or unmapped environments. In this work, we treat visual navigable space segmentation as a scene decomposition problem and propose Polyline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zheng Chen , Zhengming Ding , David Crandall , Lantao Liu

Semantic segmentation requires large amounts of pixel-wise annotations to learn accurate models. In this paper, we present a video prediction-based methodology to scale up training sets by synthesizing new training samples in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Yi Zhu , Karan Sapra , Fitsum A. Reda , Kevin J. Shih , Shawn Newsam , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment unseen class objects with the guidance of only a few support images. Most previous methods rely on the pixel-level label of support images. In this paper, we focus on a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haohan Wang , Liang Liu , Wuhao Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Haoqian Wang