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The semantic segmentation (SS) task aims to create a dense classification by labeling at the pixel level each object present on images. Convolutional neural network (CNN) approaches have been widely used, and exhibited the best results in…

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Context is essential for semantic segmentation. Due to the diverse shapes of objects and their complex layout in various scene images, the spatial scales and shapes of contexts for different objects have very large variation. It is thus…

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Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling machines to understand and interpret visual scenes at a pixel level. While traditional segmentation methods have achieved remarkable success, their generalization to diverse scenes and…

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Editing facial expressions by only changing what we want is a long-standing research problem in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for image manipulation. Most of the existing methods that rely only on a global generator usually suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Rumeysa Bodur , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

Globally modeling and reasoning over relations between regions can be beneficial for many computer vision tasks on both images and videos. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at modeling local relations by convolution operations, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Yunpeng Chen , Marcus Rohrbach , Zhicheng Yan , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng , Yannis Kalantidis

This paper investigates the potential of enhancing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) with semantics to expand their applications. Although NeRF has been proven useful in real-world applications like VR and digital creation, the lack of…

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In this paper, we introduce Semantic-SAM, a universal image segmentation model to enable segment and recognize anything at any desired granularity. Our model offers two key advantages: semantic-awareness and granularity-abundance. To…

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Humans inherently recognize objects via selective visual perception, transform specific regions from the visual field into structured symbolic knowledge, and reason their relationships among regions based on the allocation of limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shu Zhao , Huijuan Xu

Disentangled representation is a powerful technique to tackle domain shift problem in medical image analysis in unsupervised domain adaptation setting.However, previous methods only focus on exacting domain-invariant feature and ignore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Shuai Wang , Rui Li

In the majority of GAN architectures, the latent space is defined as a set of vectors of given dimensionality. Such representations are not easily interpretable and do not capture spatial information of image content directly. In this work,…

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Large Vision--Language Models (LVLMs) hold great promise for advancing optical remote sensing (RS) analysis, yet existing reasoning segmentation frameworks couple linguistic reasoning and pixel prediction through end-to-end supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xu Zhang , Junyao Ge , Yang Zheng , Kaitai Guo , Jimin Liang

Reasoning Segmentation (RS) aims to delineate objects based on implicit text queries, the interpretation of which requires reasoning and knowledge integration. Unlike the traditional formulation of segmentation problems that relies on fixed…

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Most recent semantic segmentation methods adopt a fully-convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture. The encoder progressively reduces the spatial resolution and learns more abstract/semantic visual concepts with larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Sixiao Zheng , Jiachen Lu , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Zekun Luo , Yabiao Wang , Yanwei Fu , Jianfeng Feng , Tao Xiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Li Zhang

Domain shift is a very challenging problem for semantic segmentation. Any model can be easily trained on synthetic data, where images and labels are artificially generated, but it will perform poorly when deployed on real environments. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Luigi Musto , Andrea Zinelli

Global contexts in images are quite valuable in image-to-image translation problems. Conventional attention-based and graph-based models capture the global context to a large extent, however, these are computationally expensive. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ayush Singh , Yash Bhambhu , Himanshu Buckchash , Deepak K. Gupta , Dilip K. Prasad

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

We propose a novel AutoRegressive Generation-based paradigm for image Segmentation (ARGenSeg), achieving multimodal understanding and pixel-level perception within a unified framework. Prior works integrating image segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiaolong Wang , Lixiang Ru , Ziyuan Huang , Kaixiang Ji , Dandan Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Jun Zhou

The encoder-decoder architecture is widely used as a lightweight semantic segmentation network. However, it struggles with a limited performance compared to a well-designed Dilated-FCN model for two major problems. First, commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jiangyun Li , Sen Zha , Chen Chen , Meng Ding , Tianxiang Zhang , Hong Yu

Training Scene Graph Generation (SGG) models with natural language captions has become increasingly popular due to the abundant, cost-effective, and open-world generalization supervision signals that natural language offers. However, such…

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