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Local feature provides compact and invariant image representation for various visual tasks. Current deep learning-based local feature algorithms always utilize convolution neural network (CNN) architecture with limited receptive field.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jinyu Miao , Haosong Yue , Zhong Liu , Xingming Wu , Zaojun Fang , Guilin Yang

Visual place recognition (VPR) remains challenging due to significant viewpoint changes and appearance variations. Mainstream works tackle these challenges by developing various feature aggregation methods to transform deep features into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Teng Wang , Lingquan Meng , Lei Cheng , Changyin Sun

Semantic video segmentation is a key challenge for various applications. This paper presents a new model named Noisy-LSTM, which is trainable in an end-to-end manner, with convolutional LSTMs (ConvLSTMs) to leverage the temporal coherency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara , Yasushi Yagi

Intensity inhomogeneities in images constitute a considerable challenge in image segmentation. In this paper we propose a novel biconvex variational model to tackle this task. We combine a total variation approach for multi class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Jan Henrik Fitschen , Katharina Losch , Gabriele Steidl

Although recent works based on deep learning have made progress in improving recognition accuracy on scene text recognition, how to handle low-quality text images in end-to-end deep networks remains a research challenge. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Zhiwei Jia , Shugong Xu , Shiyi Mu , Yue Tao , Shan Cao , Zhiyong Chen

Segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets is an essential step for calculation of clinical indices such as ventricular volume and ejection fraction. In this work, we employ deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 M. R. Avendi , A. Kheradvar , H. Jafarkhani

Inverse problems arise in many applications, especially tomographic imaging. We develop a Learned Alternating Minimization Algorithm (LAMA) to solve such problems via two-block optimization by synergizing data-driven and classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chi Ding , Qingchao Zhang , Ge Wang , Xiaojing Ye , Yunmei Chen

Consumer light-field (LF) cameras suffer from a low or limited resolution because of the angular-spatial trade-off. To alleviate this drawback, we propose a novel learning-based approach utilizing attention mechanism to synthesize novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 M. Shahzeb Khan Gul , Umair Mukati , Michel Bätz , Søren Forchhammer , Joachim Keinert

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

The task of blood vessel segmentation in microscopy images is crucial for many diagnostic and research applications. However, vessels can look vastly different, depending on the transient imaging conditions, and collecting data for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Shir Gur , Lior Wolf , Lior Golgher , Pablo Blinder

The assessment of the blood volume is crucial for the management of many acute and chronic diseases. Recent studies have shown that circulating blood volume correlates with the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the internal jugular vein (IJV)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-15 Ebrahim Karami , Mohamed Shehata , Peter McGuire , Andrew Smith

Deep learning has transformed computational imaging, but traditional pixel-based representations limit their ability to capture continuous, multiscale details of objects. Here we introduce a novel Local Conditional Neural Fields (LCNF)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Hao Wang , Jiabei Zhu , Yunzhe Li , QianWan Yang , Lei Tian

We develop a generalized active contour formalism for image segmentation based on shape templates. The shape template is subjected to a restricted affine transformation (RAT) in order to segment the object of interest. RAT allows for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Jayanth Krishna Mogali , Adithya Kumar Pediredla , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional methods typically produce a single segmentation mask, failing to capture inherent uncertainty. Recent generative models enable the creation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Toan Nguyen Hai , Ba Luong Son , Long Tran Quoc

Image Segmentation is one of the core tasks in Computer Vision and solving it often depends on modeling the image appearance data via the color distributions of each it its constituent regions. Whereas many segmentation algorithms handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Image denoising is essential in low-level vision applications such as photography and automated driving. Existing methods struggle with distinguishing complex noise patterns in real-world scenes and consume significant computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Binghong Chen , Tingting Chai , Wei Jiang , Yuanrong Xu , Guanglu Zhou , Xiangqian Wu

This paper proposes an auxiliary vector filtering (AVF) algorithm based on a constrained constant modulus (CCM) design for robust adaptive beamforming. This scheme provides an efficient way to deal with filters with a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-14 Lei Wang , Rodrigo de Lamare

Situational awareness applications rely heavily on real-time processing of visual and textual data to provide actionable insights. Vision language models (VLMs) have become essential tools for interpreting complex environments by connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Md Azim Khan , Aryya Gangopadhyay , Jianwu Wang , Robert F. Erbacher

The goal of image oversegmentation is to divide an image into several pieces, each of which should ideally be part of an object. One of the simplest and yet most effective oversegmentation algorithms is known as local variation (LV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Michael Baltaxe , Peter Meer , Michael Lindenbaum

Segmentation remains an important problem in image processing. For homogeneous (piecewise smooth) images, a number of important models have been developed and refined over the past several decades. However, these models often fail when…

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