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Autoencoding, which aims to reconstruct the input images through a bottleneck latent representation, is one of the classic feature representation learning strategies. It has been shown effective as an auxiliary task for semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yuhao Lin , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu , Jinan Zou , Javen Qinfeng Shi

We propose a general framework called Network Dissection for quantifying the interpretability of latent representations of CNNs by evaluating the alignment between individual hidden units and a set of semantic concepts. Given any CNN model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 David Bau , Bolei Zhou , Aditya Khosla , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Unsupervised image segmentation is an important task in many real-world scenarios where labelled data is of scarce availability. In this paper we propose a novel approach that harnesses recent advances in unsupervised learning using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Moshe Eliasof , Nir Ben Zikri , Eran Treister

Automated discovery of early visual concepts from raw image data is a major open challenge in AI research. Addressing this problem, we propose an unsupervised approach for learning disentangled representations of the underlying factors of…

In this paper we introduce a novel method for segmentation that can benefit from general semantics of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our segmentation proposes visually and semantically coherent image segments. We use binary encoding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Hossein Mousavi , Moin Nabi , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

In semantic segmentation, generalizing a visual system to both seen categories and novel categories at inference time has always been practically valuable yet challenging. To enable such functionality, existing methods mainly rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuhuan Yang , Chaofan Ma , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

While image segmentation is crucial in various computer vision applications, such as autonomous driving, grasping, and robot navigation, annotating all objects at the pixel-level for training is nearly impossible. Therefore, the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Cuong Manh Hoang , Byeongkeun Kang

LVLMs encounter significant challenges in image understanding and visual reasoning, leading to critical perception failures. Visual prompts, which incorporate image manipulation code, have shown promising potential in mitigating these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jaechang Kim , Yotaro Shimose , Zhao Wang , Kuang-Da Wang , Jungseul Ok , Shingo Takamatsu

Visual semantic information comprises two important parts: the meaning of each visual semantic unit and the coherent visual semantic relation conveyed by these visual semantic units. Essentially, the former one is a visual perception task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Daqi Liu , Miroslaw Bober , Josef Kittler

Large-scale vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive open-vocabulary capabilities for image-level tasks, excelling in recognizing what objects are present. However, they struggle with pixel-level recognition tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Heeseong Shin , Chaehyun Kim , Sunghwan Hong , Seokju Cho , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

Text segmentation tasks have a very wide range of application values, such as image editing, style transfer, watermark removal, etc.However, existing public datasets are of poor quality of pixel-level labels that have been shown to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yibo Wang , Yunhu Ye , Yuanpeng Mao , Yanwei Yu , Yuanping Song

Deep vision models have achieved remarkable classification performance by leveraging a hierarchical architecture in which human-interpretable concepts emerge through the composition of individual neurons across layers. Given the distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dahee Kwon , Sehyun Lee , Jaesik Choi

Visual segmentation is a key perceptual function that partitions visual space and allows for detection, recognition and discrimination of objects in complex environments. The processes underlying human segmentation of natural images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Jonathan Vacher , Pascal Mamassian , Ruben Coen-Cagli

In this paper we introduce a novel method for general semantic segmentation that can benefit from general semantics of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our segmentation proposes visually and semantically coherent image segments. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Hossein Mousavi , Moin Nabi , Mohammad Rastegari , Carlo Regazzoni

Recent progress in deep learning has significantly advanced CT image analysis, particularly for segmentation tasks. However, these advances are largely confined to image-level pattern recognition, with most methods lacking explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuyuan Liu , Can Peng , Yingyu Yang , Qianye Yang , Cheng Ouyang , J. Alison Noble

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision by supervisedly learning strong visual feature representations. However, training CNNs relies heavily on the availability of exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Jiabo Huang , Qi Dong , Shaogang Gong , Xiatian Zhu

The rapid development of deep learning has driven significant progress in image semantic segmentation - a fundamental task in computer vision. Semantic segmentation algorithms often depend on the availability of pixel-level labels (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

Masking strategies commonly employed in natural language processing are still underexplored in vision tasks such as concept learning, where conventional methods typically rely on full images. However, using masked images diversifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuwei Sun , Lu Mi , Ippei Fujisawa , Ruiqiao Mei , Jimin Chen , Siyu Zhu , Ryota Kanai

Creative visual concept generation often draws inspiration from specific concepts in a reference image to produce relevant outcomes. However, existing methods are typically constrained to single-aspect concept generation or are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yangyang Li , Daqing Liu , Wu Liu , Allen He , Xinchen Liu , Yongdong Zhang , Guoqing Jin

In computer vision, a prevailing method for quantifying dataset bias is to train a model to distinguish between datasets. High classification accuracy is then interpreted as evidence of meaningful semantic differences. This approach assumes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Amir Hossein Saleknia , Mohammad Sabokrou