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Autonomous off-road navigation faces challenges due to diverse, unstructured environments, requiring robust perception with both geometric and semantic understanding. However, scarce densely labeled semantic data limits generalization…

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Confusing classes that are ubiquitous in real world often degrade performance for many vision related applications like object detection, classification, and segmentation. The confusion errors are not only caused by similar visual patterns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Qichuan Geng , Xinyu Huang , Zhong Zhou , Ruigang Yang

In this paper, we address the problem of having characters with different scales in scene text recognition. We propose a novel scale aware feature encoder (SAFE) that is designed specifically for encoding characters with different scales.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Wei Liu , Chaofeng Chen , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Large language models exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet often rely on shortcuts such as surface pattern matching and answer memorization rather than genuine logical inference. We propose Shortcut-Aware Reasoning Training (SART), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hongyu Cao , Kunpeng Liu , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

While visual autoregressive modeling (VAR) strategies have shed light on image generation with the autoregressive models, their potential for segmentation, a task that requires precise low-level spatial perception, remains unexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

Point cloud semantic segmentation plays an essential role in autonomous driving, providing vital information about drivable surfaces and nearby objects that can aid higher level tasks such as path planning and collision avoidance. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ozan Unal , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Enabling robots to autonomously discover high-level spatial concepts (e.g., rooms and walls) from primitive geometric observations (e.g., planar surfaces) within 3D Scene Graphs is essential for robust indoor navigation and mapping. These…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve prevailing results in segmentation tasks nowadays and represent the state-of-the-art for image-based analysis. However, the understanding of the accurate decision-making process of a CNN is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Tillmann Rheude , Andreas Wirtz , Arjan Kuijper , Stefan Wesarg

Recent developments in gradient-based attention modeling have seen attention maps emerge as a powerful tool for interpreting convolutional neural networks. Despite good localization for an individual class of interest, these techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Lezi Wang , Ziyan Wu , Srikrishna Karanam , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Rajat Vikram Singh , Bo Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

In this paper, we proposed an integrated model of semantic-aware and contrast-aware saliency combining both bottom-up and top-down cues for effective saliency estimation and eye fixation prediction. The proposed model processes visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Xiaoshuai Sun

We propose a novel deep layer cascade (LC) method to improve the accuracy and speed of semantic segmentation. Unlike the conventional model cascade (MC) that is composed of multiple independent models, LC treats a single deep model as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Xiaoxiao Li , Ziwei Liu , Ping Luo , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

For anomaly detection (AD), early approaches often train separate models for individual classes, yielding high performance but posing challenges in scalability and resource management. Recent efforts have shifted toward training a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Lei Fan , Junjie Huang , Donglin Di , Anyang Su , Tianyou Song , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

Current weakly supervised object localization and segmentation rely on class-discriminative visualization techniques to generate pseudo-labels for pixel-level training. Such visualization methods, including class activation mapping (CAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xiangwei Shi , Seyran Khademi , Yunqiang Li , Jan van Gemert

Aiming to generalize the label knowledge from a source domain with continuous outputs to an unlabeled target domain, Domain Adaptation Regression (DAR) is developed for complex practical learning problems. However, due to the continuity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Hao-Ran Yang , Chuan-Xian Ren , You-Wei Luo

Despite great progress in supervised semantic segmentation,a large performance drop is usually observed when deploying the model in the wild. Domain adaptation methods tackle the issue by aligning the source domain and the target domain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haoran Wang , Tong Shen , Wei Zhang , Lingyu Duan , Tao Mei

Robustness of deep learning methods for limited angle tomography is challenged by two major factors: a) due to insufficient training data the network may not generalize well to unseen data; b) deep learning methods are sensitive to noise.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Guenter Lauritsch , Michael Manhart , Xiaolin Huang , Andreas Maier

Incremental learning of semantic segmentation has emerged as a promising strategy for visual scene interpretation in the open- world setting. However, it remains challenging to acquire novel classes in an online fashion for the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shipeng Yan , Jiale Zhou , Jiangwei Xie , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

In recent studies, numerous previous works emphasize the importance of semantic segmentation of LiDAR data as a critical component to the development of driver-assistance systems and autonomous vehicles. However, many state-of-the-art…

Semantic segmentation is still a challenging task for parsing diverse contexts in different scenes, thus the fixed classifier might not be able to well address varying feature distributions during testing. Different from the mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Zhuotao Tian , Jiequan Cui , Li Jiang , Xiaojuan Qi , Xin Lai , Yixin Chen , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

The pixel-wise dense prediction tasks based on weakly supervisions currently use Class Attention Maps (CAM) to generate pseudo masks as ground-truth. However, the existing methods typically depend on the painstaking training modules, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li