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We present SimpleSeg, a strikingly simple yet highly effective approach to endow Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with native pixel-level perception. Our method reframes segmentation as a simple sequence generation problem: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tianhui Song , Haoyu Lu , Hao Yang , Lin Sui , Haoning Wu , Zaida Zhou , Zhiqi Huang , Yiping Bao , Y. Charles , Xinyu Zhou , Limin Wang

We propose a novel semantic segmentation algorithm by learning a deconvolution network. We learn the network on top of the convolutional layers adopted from VGG 16-layer net. The deconvolution network is composed of deconvolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Hyeonwoo Noh , Seunghoon Hong , Bohyung Han

Semantic segmentation aims to robustly predict coherent class labels for entire regions of an image. It is a scene understanding task that powers real-world applications (e.g., autonomous navigation). One important application, the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuxiang Zhang , Sachin Mehta , Anat Caspi

This paper proposes a novel self-supervised learning method for semantic segmentation using selective masking image reconstruction as the pretraining task. Our proposed method replaces the random masking augmentation used in most masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuemin Wang , Ian Stavness

This paper addresses the task of semantic segmentation of orthoimagery using multimodal data e.g. optical RGB, infrared and digital surface model. We propose a deep convolutional neural network architecture termed OrthoSeg for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pankaj Bodani , Kumar Shreshtha , Shashikant Sharma

Traditional semantic segmentation methods can recognize at test time only the classes that are present in the training set. This is a significant limitation, especially for semantic segmentation algorithms mounted on intelligent autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Dario Fontanel , Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Barbara Caputo

Prototype-based methods use interpretable representations to address the black-box nature of deep learning models, in contrast to post-hoc explanation methods that only approximate such models. We propose the Neural Prototype Tree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Meike Nauta , Ron van Bree , Christin Seifert

Self-Explainable Models (SEMs) rely on Prototypical Concept Learning (PCL) to enable their visual recognition processes more interpretable, but they often struggle in data-scarce settings where insufficient training samples lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zhong Ji , Rongshuai Wei , Jingren Liu , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han

Prototypical part neural networks (ProtoPartNNs), namely PROTOPNET and its derivatives, are an intrinsically interpretable approach to machine learning. Their prototype learning scheme enables intuitive explanations of the form, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zachariah Carmichael , Suhas Lohit , Anoop Cherian , Michael Jones , Walter Scheirer

Part-prototype models are explainable-by-design image classifiers, and a promising alternative to black box AI. This paper explores the applicability and potential of interpretable machine learning, in particular PIP-Net, for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Meike Nauta , Johannes H. Hegeman , Jeroen Geerdink , Jörg Schlötterer , Maurice van Keulen , Christin Seifert

In this work, we introduce InfoDisent, a hybrid approach to explainability based on the information bottleneck principle. InfoDisent enables the disentanglement of information in the final layer of any pretrained model into atomic concepts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Łukasz Struski , Dawid Rymarczyk , Jacek Tabor

In this paper, we study the problem of semantic part segmentation for animals. This is more challenging than standard object detection, object segmentation and pose estimation tasks because semantic parts of animals often have similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Jianyu Wang , Alan Yuille

In this work, we propose the novel Prototypical Graph Regression Self-explainable Trees (ProGReST) model, which combines prototype learning, soft decision trees, and Graph Neural Networks. In contrast to other works, our model can be used…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Dawid Rymarczyk , Daniel Dobrowolski , Tomasz Danel

The ability to interpret machine learning model decisions is critical in such domains as healthcare, where trust in model predictions is as important as their accuracy. Inspired by the development of prototype parts-based deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jacek Karolczak , Jerzy Stefanowski

We introduce Prototype Generation, a stricter and more robust form of feature visualisation for model-agnostic, data-independent interpretability of image classification models. We demonstrate its ability to generate inputs that result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Arush Tagade , Jessica Rumbelow

We present a novel, real-time, semantic segmentation network in which the encoder both encodes and generates the parameters (weights) of the decoder. Furthermore, to allow maximal adaptivity, the weights at each decoder block vary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yuval Nirkin , Lior Wolf , Tal Hassner

Understanding the decisions made by deep neural networks is essential in high-stakes domains such as medical imaging and autonomous driving. Yet, these models often lack transparency, particularly in computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Viktar Dubovik , Łukasz Struski , Jacek Tabor , Dawid Rymarczyk

Real-time semantic segmentation is a challenging task that requires high-accuracy models with low-inference times. Implementing these models on embedded systems is limited by hardware capability and memory usage, which produces bottlenecks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Miguel Lopez-Montiel , Daniel Alejandro Lopez , Oscar Montiel

We combine concept-based neural networks with generative, flow-based classifiers into a novel, intrinsically explainable, exactly invertible approach to supervised learning. Prototypical neural networks, a type of concept-based neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zachariah Carmichael , Timothy Redgrave , Daniel Gonzalez Cedre , Walter J. Scheirer

Semantic segmentation is a critical task in computer vision aiming to identify and classify individual pixels in an image, with numerous applications in for example autonomous driving and medical image analysis. However, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Halil Ibrahim Aysel , Xiaohao Cai , Adam Prügel-Bennett