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Continual Semantic Segmentation (CSS) requires learning new classes without forgetting previously acquired knowledge, addressing the fundamental challenge of catastrophic forgetting in dense prediction tasks. However, existing CSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Wentao Zhang , Zishan Xu , Dexia Chen , Siyu Zhang , Yizhe Zhang , Ruixuan Wang

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

We propose the autofocus convolutional layer for semantic segmentation with the objective of enhancing the capabilities of neural networks for multi-scale processing. Autofocus layers adaptively change the size of the effective receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Yao Qin , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Siddharth Ancha , Jay Nanavati , Garrison Cottrell , Antonio Criminisi , Aditya Nori

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

We propose an approach to instance-level image segmentation that is built on top of category-level segmentation. Specifically, for each pixel in a semantic category mask, its corresponding instance bounding box is predicted using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

We propose a novel video object segmentation algorithm based on pixel-level matching using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Our network aims to distinguish the target area from the background on the basis of the pixel-level similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Jae Shin Yoon , Francois Rameau , Junsik Kim , Seokju Lee , Seunghak Shin , In So Kweon

We present Generative Semantic Segmentation (GSS), a generative learning approach for semantic segmentation. Uniquely, we cast semantic segmentation as an image-conditioned mask generation problem. This is achieved by replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Chen , Jiachen Lu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task that associates a label with each pixel in an image. Modern approaches tend to introduce class embeddings into semantic segmentation for deeply utilizing category semantics, and regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yuhe Liu , Chuanjian Liu , Kai Han , Quan Tang , Zengchang Qin

A recent study has shown a phenomenon called neural collapse in that the within-class means of features and the classifier weight vectors converge to the vertices of a simplex equiangular tight frame at the terminal phase of training for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Zhisheng Zhong , Jiequan Cui , Yibo Yang , Xiaoyang Wu , Xiaojuan Qi , Xiangyu Zhang , Jiaya Jia

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving. However, to train CNNs requires a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Boqing Gong

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Thesedays, Convolutional Neural Networks are widely used in semantic segmentation. However, since CNN-based segmentation networks produce low-resolution outputs with rich semantic information, it is inevitable that spatial details (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Youngeun Kim , Seunghyeon Kim , Taekyung Kim , Changick Kim

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has gained attention for its cost-effectiveness. Most existing methods emphasize inter-class separation, often neglecting the shared semantics among related categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wangyu Wu , Zhenhong Chen , Xiaowen Ma , Wenqiao Zhang , Xianglin Qiu , Siqi Song , Xiaowei Huang , Fei Ma , Jimin Xiao

Current semantic segmentation methods focus only on mining "local" context, i.e., dependencies between pixels within individual images, by context-aggregation modules (e.g., dilated convolution, neural attention) or structure-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Fisher Yu , Jifeng Dai , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

Semantic segmentation has made significant strides in pixel-level image understanding, yet it remains limited in capturing contextual and semantic relationships between objects. Current models, such as CNN and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ben Rahman

We introduce an approach to integrate segmentation information within a convolutional neural network (CNN). This counter-acts the tendency of CNNs to smooth information across regions and increases their spatial precision. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

As a common method in the field of computer vision, spatial attention mechanism has been widely used in semantic segmentation of remote sensing images due to its outstanding long-range dependency modeling capability. However, remote sensing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Xiaowen Ma , Rongrong Lian , Zhenkai Wu , Renxiang Guan , Tingfeng Hong , Mengjiao Zhao , Mengting Ma , Jiangtao Nie , Zhenhong Du , Siyang Song , Wei Zhang

Incorporating multi-scale features in fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) has been a key element to achieving state-of-the-art performance on semantic image segmentation. One common way to extract multi-scale features is to feed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Liang-Chieh Chen , Yi Yang , Jiang Wang , Wei Xu , Alan L. Yuille

Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling comprehensive scene understanding for robotic systems. However, generating annotations is challenging, requiring labels for every pixel in an image. In scenarios like autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mostafa ElAraby , Ali Harakeh , Liam Paull

Existing semantic segmentation approaches are often limited by costly pixel-wise annotations and predefined classes. In this work, we present CLIP-S$^4$ that leverages self-supervised pixel representation learning and vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Wenbin He , Suphanut Jamonnak , Liang Gou , Liu Ren