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In this paper, we aim to tackle the challenging few-shot segmentation task from a new perspective. Typical methods follow the paradigm to firstly learn prototypical features from support images and then match query features in pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Siyu Jiao , Gengwei Zhang , Shant Navasardyan , Ling Chen , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Deep neural networks have enabled major progresses in semantic segmentation. However, even the most advanced neural architectures suffer from important limitations. First, they are vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting, i.e. they perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Buló , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

Semantic, instance, and panoptic segmentation of 3D point clouds have been addressed using task-specific models of distinct design. Thereby, the similarity of all segmentation tasks and the implicit relationship between them have not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Maxim Kolodiazhnyi , Anna Vorontsova , Anton Konushin , Danila Rukhovich

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

In panoptic segmentation, individual instances must be separated within semantic classes. As state-of-the-art methods rely on a pre-defined set of classes, they struggle with novel categories and out-of-distribution (OOD) data. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Sebastian Schmidt , Julius Körner , Dominik Fuchsgruber , Stefano Gasperini , Federico Tombari , Stephan Günnemann

The field of continual deep learning is an emerging field and a lot of progress has been made. However, concurrently most of the approaches are only tested on the task of image classification, which is not relevant in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Tobias Kalb , Masoud Roschani , Miriam Ruf , Jürgen Beyerer

The evolution of semantic segmentation has long been dominated by learning more discriminative image representations for classifying each pixel. Despite the prominent advancements, the priors of segmentation masks themselves, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Zeqiang Lai , Yuchen Duan , Jifeng Dai , Ziheng Li , Ying Fu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao , Wenhai Wang

The ability to dynamically extend a model to new data and classes is critical for multiple organ and tumor segmentation. However, due to privacy regulations, accessing previous data and annotations can be problematic in the medical domain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Yixiao Zhang , Xinyi Li , Huimiao Chen , Alan Yuille , Yaoyao Liu , Zongwei Zhou

Deep neural networks suffer from the major limitation of catastrophic forgetting old tasks when learning new ones. In this paper we focus on class incremental continual learning in semantic segmentation, where new categories are made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Despite their effectiveness in a wide range of tasks, deep architectures suffer from some important limitations. In particular, they are vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting, i.e. they perform poorly when they are required to update their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Bulò , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

We demonstrate our solution for the 2019 COCO panoptic segmentation task. Our method first performs instance segmentation and semantic segmentation separately, then combines the two to generate panoptic segmentation results. To enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Mehmet Yildirim , Yogesh Langhe

Continual Semantic Segmentation (CSS) extends static semantic segmentation by incrementally introducing new classes for training. To alleviate the catastrophic forgetting issue in CSS, a memory buffer that stores a small number of samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Lanyun Zhu , Tianrun Chen , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See , Jun Liu

As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

Due to the high similarity between camouflaged instances and the background, the recently proposed camouflaged instance segmentation (CIS) faces challenges in accurate localization and instance segmentation. To this end, inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Bo Dong , Jialun Pei , Rongrong Gao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Shuo Wang , Huan Xiong

Hierarchical clustering is an effective and efficient approach widely used for classical image segmentation methods. However, many existing methods using neural networks generate segmentation masks directly from per-pixel features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Teppei Suzuki

Continual Semantic Segmentation (CSS) seeks to incrementally learn to segment novel classes while preserving knowledge of previously encountered ones. Recent advancements in CSS have been largely driven by the adoption of Pre-trained Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Duzhen Zhang , Yong Ren , Wei Cong , Junhao Zheng , Qiaoyi Su , Shuncheng Jia , Zhong-Zhi Li , Xuanle Zhao , Ye Bai , Feilong Chen , Qi Tian , Tielin Zhang

LiDAR panoptic segmentation, which jointly performs instance and semantic segmentation for things and stuff classes, plays a fundamental role in LiDAR perception tasks. While most existing methods explicitly separate these two segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yu Yang , Jianbiao Mei , Liang Liu , Siliang Du , Yilin Xiao , Jongwon Ra , Yong Liu , Xiao Xu , Huifeng Wu

Recent transformer-based architectures have shown impressive results in the field of image segmentation. Thanks to their flexibility, they obtain outstanding performance in multiple segmentation tasks, such as semantic and panoptic, under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Niccolò Cavagnero , Gabriele Rosi , Claudia Cuttano , Francesca Pistilli , Marco Ciccone , Giuseppe Averta , Fabio Cermelli

This paper presents a new mechanism to facilitate the training of mask transformers for efficient panoptic segmentation, democratizing its deployment. We observe that due to its high complexity, the training objective of panoptic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Shuyang Sun , Weijun Wang , Qihang Yu , Andrew Howard , Philip Torr , Liang-Chieh Chen

Panoptic segmentation is an important computer vision task which combines semantic and instance segmentation. It plays a crucial role in domains of medical image analysis, self-driving vehicles, and robotics by providing a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Shourya Verma