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Recent advances in deep learning, especially deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to significant improvement over previous semantic segmentation systems. Here we show how to improve pixel-wise semantic segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Panqu Wang , Pengfei Chen , Ye Yuan , Ding Liu , Zehua Huang , Xiaodi Hou , Garrison Cottrell

Image segmentation is about grouping pixels with different semantics, e.g., category or instance membership, where each choice of semantics defines a task. While only the semantics of each task differ, current research focuses on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Ishan Misra , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov , Rohit Girdhar

Though the state-of-the architectures for semantic segmentation, such as HRNet, demonstrate impressive accuracy, the complexity arising from their salient design choices hinders a range of model acceleration tools, and further they make use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Dushyant Mehta , Andrii Skliar , Haitam Ben Yahia , Shubhankar Borse , Fatih Porikli , Amirhossein Habibian , Tijmen Blankevoort

Semantic segmentation is crucial for medical image analysis, enabling precise disease diagnosis and treatment planning. However, many advanced models employ complex architectures, limiting their use in resource-constrained clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Le-Anh Tran , Chung Nguyen Tran , Nhan Cach Dang , Anh Le Van Quoc , Jordi Carrabina , David Castells-Rufas , Minh Son Nguyen

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision that involves dense pixel-wise classification for scene understanding. Despite significant progress, achieving high accuracy while maintaining real-time performance remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Abhinav Sagar

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Semantic segmentation for robotic systems can enable a wide range of applications, from self-driving cars and augmented reality systems to domestic robots. We argue that a spherical representation is a natural one for egocentric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Lukas Bernreiter , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Learning semantic segmentation models under image-level supervision is far more challenging than under fully supervised setting. Without knowing the exact pixel-label correspondence, most weakly-supervised methods rely on external models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Zi-Yi Ke , Chiou-Ting Hsu

Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for semantic segmentation typically requires to collect a large amount of accurate pixel-level annotations, a hard and expensive task. In contrast, simple image tags are easier to gather. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Carolina Redondo-Cabrera , Marcos Baptista-Ríos , Roberto J. López-Sastre

State-of-the-art semantic segmentation models are typically optimized in a data-driven fashion, minimizing solely per-pixel or per-segment classification objectives on their training data. This purely data-driven paradigm often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shamik Basu , Luc Van Gool , Christos Sakaridis

We explore semantic segmentation beyond the conventional, single-dataset homogeneous training and bring forward the problem of Heterogeneous Training of Semantic Segmentation (HTSS). HTSS involves simultaneous training on multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Panagiotis Meletis , Gijs Dubbelman

Aiming to enhance the utilization of metric space by the parametric softmax classifier, recent studies suggest replacing it with a non-parametric alternative. Although a non-parametric classifier may provide better metric space utilization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mohammad Saeed Ebrahimi Saadabadi , Ali Dabouei , Sahar Rahimi Malakshan , Nasser M. Nasrabad

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment an image into semantic regions according to text descriptions, which may not have been seen during training. Recent two-stage methods first generate class-agnostic mask proposals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Feng Liang , Bichen Wu , Xiaoliang Dai , Kunpeng Li , Yinan Zhao , Hang Zhang , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Diana Marculescu

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

Compared with natural images, remote sensing images (RSIs) have the unique characteristic. i.e., larger intraclass variance, which makes semantic segmentation for remote sensing images more challenging. Moreover, existing semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Wei Zhang , Mengting Ma , Yizhen Jiang , Rongrong Lian , Zhenkai Wu , Kangning Cui , Xiaowen Ma

Current semantic segmentation models have achieved great success under the independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) condition. However, in real-world applications, test data might come from a different domain than training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jian Ding , Nan Xue , Gui-Song Xia , Bernt Schiele , Dengxin Dai

Semantic image segmentation is a principal problem in computer vision, where the aim is to correctly classify each individual pixel of an image into a semantic label. Its widespread use in many areas, including medical imaging and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Vladimir Nekrasov , Janghoon Ju , Jaesik Choi

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai

This paper presents a simple unsupervised visual representation learning method with a pretext task of discriminating all images in a dataset using a parametric, instance-level classifier. The overall framework is a replica of a supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Yu Liu , Lianghua Huang , Pan Pan , Bin Wang , Yinghui Xu , Rong Jin

Recent works have made great progress in semantic segmentation by exploiting richer context, most of which are designed from a spatial perspective. In contrast to previous works, we present the concept of class center which extracts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Fan Zhang , Yanqin Chen , Zhihang Li , Zhibin Hong , Jingtuo Liu , Feifei Ma , Junyu Han , Errui Ding