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We introduce a purely feed-forward architecture for semantic segmentation. We map small image elements (superpixels) to rich feature representations extracted from a sequence of nested regions of increasing extent. These regions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Payman Yadollahpour , Gregory Shakhnarovich

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

Learned Image Compression (LIC) has shown remarkable progress in recent years. Existing works commonly employ CNN-based or self-attention-based modules as transform methods for compression. However, there is no prior research on neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yuxi Liu , Wenhan Yang , Huihui Bai , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to automatically partition images into semantically meaningful regions by identifying global semantic categories within an image corpus without any form of annotation. Building upon recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Oliver Hahn , Nikita Araslanov , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Semantic segmentation in hyperbolic space enables compact modeling of hierarchical structure while providing inherent uncertainty quantification. Prior approaches predominantly rely on the Poincar\'e ball model, which suffers from numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zahid Hasan , Masud Ahmed , Nirmalya Roy

Language models have recently been shown capable of performing regression wherein numeric predictions are represented as decoded strings. In this work, we provide theoretical grounds for this capability and furthermore investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xingyou Song , Dara Bahri

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aimed at partitioning an image into semantically meaningful regions. Referring image segmentation extends this task by using natural language expressions to localize specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Comprehensive scene understanding is a critical enabler of robot autonomy. Semantic segmentation is one of the key scene understanding tasks which is pivotal for several robotics applications including autonomous driving, domestic service…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Juana Valeria Hurtado , Abhinav Valada

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

We present LSeg, a novel model for language-driven semantic image segmentation. LSeg uses a text encoder to compute embeddings of descriptive input labels (e.g., "grass" or "building") together with a transformer-based image encoder that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Boyi Li , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Serge Belongie , Vladlen Koltun , René Ranftl

We present a new method for efficient high-quality image segmentation of objects and scenes. By analogizing classical computer graphics methods for efficient rendering with over- and undersampling challenges faced in pixel labeling tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alexander Kirillov , Yuxin Wu , Kaiming He , Ross Girshick

It is well believed that Transformer performs better in semantic segmentation compared to convolutional neural networks. Nevertheless, the original Vision Transformer may lack of inductive biases of local neighborhoods and possess a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Wentao Shi , Jing Xu , Pan Gao

Lightweight semantic segmentation is essential for many downstream vision tasks. Unfortunately, existing methods often struggle to balance efficiency and performance due to the complexity of feature modeling. Many of these existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Mian Muhammad Naeem Abid , Nancy Mehta , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

Semantic segmentation is essential in computer vision for various applications, yet traditional approaches face significant challenges, including the high cost of annotation and extensive training for supervised learning. Additionally, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yasufumi Kawano , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Semantic segmentation is an important task for numerous applications but it is still quite challenging to achieve advanced performance with limited computational costs. In this paper, we present CGRSeg, an efficient yet competitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhenliang Ni , Xinghao Chen , Yingjie Zhai , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang

Segment Anything Models (SAMs) like SEEM and SAM have demonstrated great potential in learning to segment anything. The core design of SAMs lies with Promptable Segmentation, which takes a handcrafted prompt as input and returns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jiaxing Huang , Kai Jiang , Jingyi Zhang , Han Qiu , Lewei Lu , Shijian Lu , Eric Xing

We propose an approach to instance-level image segmentation that is built on top of category-level segmentation. Specifically, for each pixel in a semantic category mask, its corresponding instance bounding box is predicted using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Attributes are semantically meaningful characteristics whose applicability widely crosses category boundaries. They are particularly important in describing and recognizing concepts where no explicit training example is given, \textit{e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Mahdi M. Kalayeh , Boqing Gong , Mubarak Shah

Deep CNNs for semantic segmentation have high memory and run time requirements. Various approaches have been proposed to make CNNs efficient like grouped, shuffled, depth-wise separable convolutions. We study the effectiveness of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Nikitha Vallurupalli , Sriharsha Annamaneni , Girish Varma , C V Jawahar , Manu Mathew , Soyeb Nagori

We propose a highly structured neural network architecture for semantic segmentation with an extremely small model size, suitable for low-power embedded and mobile platforms. Specifically, our architecture combines i) a Haar wavelet-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Michael Tschannen , Lukas Cavigelli , Fabian Mentzer , Thomas Wiatowski , Luca Benini