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The technology of image segmentation is widely used in medical image processing, face recognition pedestrian detection, etc. The current image segmentation techniques include region-based segmentation, edge detection segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Song Yuheng , Yan Hao

We study the problem of hierarchical clustering on planar graphs. We formulate this in terms of an LP relaxation of ultrametric rounding. To solve this LP efficiently we introduce a dual cutting plane scheme that uses minimum cost perfect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Julian Yarkony , Charless C. Fowlkes

Image segmentation is the problem of partitioning an image into different subsets, where each subset may have a different characterization in terms of color, intensity, texture, and/or other features. Segmentation is a fundamental component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-03 M. Abdelsamea

Although vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great success in computer vision, the heavy computational cost hampers their applications to dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation on mobile devices. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Wenqiang Zhang , Zilong Huang , Guozhong Luo , Tao Chen , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu , Gang Yu , Chunhua Shen

Deep learning techniques have achieved remarkable success in the semantic segmentation of remote sensing images and in land-use change detection. Nevertheless, their real-time deployment on edge platforms remains constrained by decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sihang Chen , Lijun Yun , Ze Liu , JianFeng Zhu , Jie Chen , Hui Wang , Yueping Nie

We propose a method for segmentation of expository texts based on hierarchical agglomerative clustering. The method uses paragraphs as the basic segments for identifying hierarchical discourse structure in the text, applying lexical…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Yaakov Yaari

Computer Vision is growing day by day in terms of user specific applications. The first step of any such application is segmenting an image. In this paper, we propose a novel and grass-root level image segmentation algorithm for cases in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Viraj Mavani , Ayesha Gurnani , Jhanvi Shah

Recently, deep learning methods have been widely used for tumor segmentation of multimodal medical images with promising results. However, most existing methods are limited by insufficient representational ability, specific modality number…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Jun Shi , Hongyu Kan , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Liang Qiao , Zhaohui Wang , Hong An , Xudong Xue

The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka

Deep clustering has been dominated by flat models, which split a dataset into a predefined number of groups. Although recent methods achieve an extremely high similarity with the ground truth on popular benchmarks, the information contained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michał Znaleźniak , Przemysław Rola , Patryk Kaszuba , Jacek Tabor , Marek Śmieja

Image clustering is a classic problem in computer vision, which categorizes images into different groups. Recent studies utilize nouns as external semantic knowledge to improve clustering performance. However, these methods often overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Yunfan Li , Junfeng Fang , Shuo Wang , Kesen Zhao , Hanwang Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a hierarchical transformer-based model designed for sophisticated image segmentation tasks, effectively bridging the granularity of part segmentation with the comprehensive scope of object segmentation. At the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yunfei Xie , Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille , Jieru Mei

Advancements in machine vision that enable detailed inferences to be made from images have the potential to transform many sectors including agriculture. Precision agriculture, where data analysis enables interventions to be precisely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Madeleine Darbyshire , Elizabeth Sklar , Simon Parsons

Most recent scribble-supervised segmentation methods commonly adopt a CNN framework with an encoder-decoder architecture. Despite its multiple benefits, this framework generally can only capture small-range feature dependency for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zihan Li , Yuan Zheng , Dandan Shan , Shuzhou Yang , Qingde Li , Beizhan Wang , Yuanting Zhang , Qingqi Hong , Dinggang Shen

Unsupervised image classification, or image clustering, aims to group unlabeled images into semantically meaningful categories. Early methods integrated representation learning and clustering within an iterative framework. However, the rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Melih Baydar , Emre Akbas

Sparse decomposition has been extensively used for different applications including signal compression and denoising and document analysis. In this paper, sparse decomposition is used for image segmentation. The proposed algorithm separates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi , Yao Wang

Urban facade segmentation from automatically acquired imagery, in contrast to traditional image segmentation, poses several unique challenges. 360-degree photospheres captured from vehicles are an effective way to capture a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 John Femiani , Wamiq Reyaz Para , Niloy Mitra , Peter Wonka

High-resolution segmentation is critical for precise disease diagnosis by extracting fine-grained morphological details. Existing hierarchical encoder-decoder frameworks have demonstrated remarkable adaptability across diverse medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Qing Xu , Zhenye Lou , Chenxin Li , Yue Li , Xiangjian He , Tesema Fiseha Berhanu , Rong Qu , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen

Image segmentation is an important component of many image understanding systems. It aims to group pixels in a spatially and perceptually coherent manner. Typically, these algorithms have a collection of parameters that control the degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marc Bosch , Christopher M. Gifford , Austin G. Dress , Clare W. Lau , Jeffrey G. Skibo , Gordon A. Christie

This paper presents a novel framework in which video/image segmentation and localization are cast into a single optimization problem that integrates information from low level appearance cues with that of high level localization cues in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Abhishek Sharma