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Understanding objects in terms of their individual parts is important, because it enables a precise understanding of the objects' geometrical structure, and enhances object recognition when the object is seen in a novel pose or under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Mengqi Guo , Yutong Bai , Zhishuai Zhang , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille

In this paper we present a simple yet effective approach to extend without supervision any object proposal from static images to videos. Unlike previous methods, these spatio-temporal proposals, to which we refer as tracks, are generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Giovanni Cuffaro , Federico Becattini , Claudio Baecchi , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

In the past few years, we have seen great progress in perception algorithms, particular through the use of deep learning. However, most existing approaches focus on a few categories of interest, which represent only a small fraction of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Kelvin Wong , Shenlong Wang , Mengye Ren , Ming Liang , Raquel Urtasun

The objective of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localise the sounding objects within visual scenes by accurately predicting pixel-wise segmentation masks. To tackle the task, it involves a comprehensive consideration of both the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects with only image-level labels. Previous methods often try to utilize feature maps and classification weights to localize objects using image level annotations indirectly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Chen-Lin Zhang , Yun-Hao Cao , Jianxin Wu

We investigate the emergence of objects in visual perception in the absence of any semantic annotation. The resulting model has received no supervision, does not use any pre-trained features, and yet it can segment the domain of an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dong Lao , Zhengyang Hu , Francesco Locatello , Yanchao Yang , Stefano Soatto

Segmentation localizes objects in an image on a fine-grained per-pixel scale. Segmentation benefits by humans-in-the-loop to provide additional input of objects to segment using a combination of foreground or background clicks. Tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Nikolai Warner , Meera Hahn , Jonathan Huang , Irfan Essa , Vighnesh Birodkar

Most instance segmentation models are not end-to-end trainable due to either the incorporation of proposal estimation (RPN) as a pre-processing or non-maximum suppression (NMS) as a post-processing. Here we propose a novel end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Kaining Ying , Zhenhua Wang , Cong Bai , Pengfei Zhou

Brightfield microscopy of unstained live cells is challenging due to low contrast, dynamic morphology, uneven illumination, and lack of labels. Deep learning achieved SOTA performance on stained, high-contrast images but needs large labeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Surajit Das , Pavel Zun

Instance Segmentation, which seeks to obtain both class and instance labels for each pixel in the input image, is a challenging task in computer vision. State-of-the-art algorithms often employ two separate stages, the first one generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jialin Yuan , Chao Chen , Li Fuxin

The requirement of expensive annotations is a major burden for training a well-performed instance segmentation model. In this paper, we present an economic active learning setting, named active pointly-supervised instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chufeng Tang , Lingxi Xie , Gang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Xiaolin Hu

Instance segmentation is an important computer vision problem which remains challenging despite impressive recent advances due to deep learning-based methods. Given sufficient training data, fully supervised methods can yield excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Paul Hilt , Maedeh Zarvandi , Edgar Kaziakhmedov , Sourabh Bhide , Maria Leptin , Constantin Pape , Anna Kreshuk

Accurate nuclear instance segmentation is a pivotal task in computational pathology, supporting data-driven clinical insights and facilitating downstream translational applications. While large vision foundation models have shown promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wen Zhang , Qin Ren , Wenjing Liu , Haibin Ling , Chenyu You

Existing state-of-the-art methods for Video Object Segmentation (VOS) learn low-level pixel-to-pixel correspondences between frames to propagate object masks across video. This requires a large amount of densely annotated video data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Ali Athar , Jonathon Luiten , Alexander Hermans , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

Nodule segmentation from breast ultrasound images is challenging yet essential for the diagnosis. Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) can help reduce time-consuming and cumbersome manual annotation. Unlike existing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Yuxin Zou , Chaoyu Chen , Jian Wang , Haoran Dou , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Jianqiao Zhou , Dong Ni

Object category localization is a challenging problem in computer vision. Standard supervised training requires bounding box annotations of object instances. This time-consuming annotation process is sidestepped in weakly supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Jakob Verbeek , Cordelia Schmid

We propose a new and, arguably, a very simple reduction of instance segmentation to semantic segmentation. This reduction allows to train feed-forward non-recurrent deep instance segmentation systems in an end-to-end fashion using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Victor Kulikov , Victor Yurchenko , Victor Lempitsky

In this paper, we introduce InstructSAM, a unified and streamlined framework designed for multi-instance segmentation under arbitrary instructions. We formulates instruction-driven instance segmentation as a set-structured query prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuqian Yuan , Wentong Li , Zhaocheng Li , Yutong Lin , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , Wenqiao Zhang

We propose MinVIS, a minimal video instance segmentation (VIS) framework that achieves state-of-the-art VIS performance with neither video-based architectures nor training procedures. By only training a query-based image instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 De-An Huang , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

Instance segmentation is of great importance for many biological applications, such as study of neural cell interactions, plant phenotyping, and quantitatively measuring how cells react to drug treatment. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jingru Yi , Pengxiang Wu , Hui Tang , Bo Liu , Qiaoying Huang , Hui Qu , Lianyi Han , Wei Fan , Daniel J. Hoeppner , Dimitris N. Metaxas