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Understanding the context of complex and cluttered scenes is a challenging problem for semantic segmentation. However, it is difficult to model the context without prior and additional supervision because the scene's factors, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Hiroaki Aizawa , Yukihiro Domae , Kunihito Kato

Image segmentation refers to the process to divide an image into nonoverlapping meaningful regions according to human perception, which has become a classic topic since the early ages of computer vision. A lot of research has been conducted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Hongyuan Zhu , Fanman Meng , Jianfei Cai , Shijian Lu

Self-attention is of vital importance in semantic segmentation as it enables modeling of long-range context, which translates into improved performance. We argue that it is equally important to model short-range context, especially to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Semantic segmentation is the problem of assigning a class label to every pixel in an image, and is an important component of an autonomous vehicle vision stack for facilitating scene understanding and object detection. However, many of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

Visual semantic segmentation aims at separating a visual sample into diverse blocks with specific semantic attributes and identifying the category for each block, and it plays a crucial role in environmental perception. Conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Wenqi Ren , Yang Tang , Qiyu Sun , Chaoqiang Zhao , Qing-Long Han

Childlike human figure drawings represent one of humanity's most accessible forms of character expression, yet automatically analyzing their contents remains a significant challenge. While semantic segmentation of realistic humans has…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Astitva Srivastava , Harrison Jesse Smith , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Yuting Ye

Semantic segmentation has made significant strides in pixel-level image understanding, yet it remains limited in capturing contextual and semantic relationships between objects. Current models, such as CNN and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ben Rahman

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Changjian Li

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) shows great promise for surgical applications, offering detailed insights into biological tissue differences beyond what the naked eye can perceive. Refined labelling efforts are underway to train vision systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Junwen Wang , Oscar Maccormac , William Rochford , Aaron Kujawa , Jonathan Shapey , Tom Vercauteren

While fine-tuning pre-trained networks has become a popular way to train image segmentation models, such backbone networks for image segmentation are frequently pre-trained using image classification source datasets, e.g., ImageNet. Though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Xuhong Li , Haoyi Xiong , Yi Liu , Dingfu Zhou , Zeyu Chen , Yaqing Wang , Dejing Dou

Over the past decade, deep neural networks have proven to be adept in image classification tasks, often surpassing humans in terms of accuracy. However, standard neural networks often fail to understand the concept of hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Amitangshu Mukherjee , Isha Garg , Kaushik Roy

While deeply supervised networks are common in recent literature, they typically impose the same learning objective on all transitional layers despite their varying representation powers. In this paper, we propose Hierarchically Supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Shubhankar Borse , Hong Cai , Yizhe Zhang , Fatih Porikli

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

In image segmentation, there is often more than one plausible solution for a given input. In medical imaging, for example, experts will often disagree about the exact location of object boundaries. Estimating this inherent uncertainty and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Miguel Monteiro , Loïc Le Folgoc , Daniel Coelho de Castro , Nick Pawlowski , Bernardo Marques , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Mark van der Wilk , Ben Glocker

This paper explores a novel setting called Generalized Category Discovery in Semantic Segmentation (GCDSS), aiming to segment unlabeled images given prior knowledge from a labeled set of base classes. The unlabeled images contain pixels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zhengyuan Peng , Qijian Tian , Jianqing Xu , Yizhang Jin , Xuequan Lu , Xin Tan , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

General scene perception has progressed from object recognition toward open-vocabulary grounding, part localization, and affordance prediction. Yet these capabilities are often realized as isolated predictions that localize objects, parts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Pengxin Xu , Xincheng Lin , Luping Xiao , Qing Jiang , Meishan Zhang , Hao Fei , Shanghang Zhang , Xingyu Chen

Recently, deep supervised hashing methods have become popular for large-scale image retrieval task. To preserve the semantic similarity notion between examples, they typically utilize the pairwise supervision or the triplet supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Lei Ma , Hongliang Li , Qingbo Wu , Fanman Meng , King Ngi Ngan

This paper presents a new approach to estimate accurate and robust 3D semantic correspondence with the hierarchical neural semantic representation. Our work has three key contributions. First, we design the hierarchical neural semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Keyu Du , Jingyu Hu , Haipeng Li , Hao Xu , Haibing Huang , Chi-Wing Fu , Shuaicheng Liu

Prevalent semantic segmentation solutions, despite their different network designs (FCN based or attention based) and mask decoding strategies (parametric softmax based or pixel-query based), can be placed in one category, by considering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

Semantic segmentation is an essential step for many vision applications in order to understand a scene and the objects within. Recent progress in hyperspectral imaging technology enables the application in driving scenarios and the hope is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Nick Theisen , Robin Bartsch , Dietrich Paulus , Peer Neubert