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Autonomous driving vehicles and robotic systems rely on accurate perception of their surroundings. Scene understanding is one of the crucial components of perception modules. Among all available sensors, LiDARs are one of the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Ryan Razani , Ran Cheng , Ehsan Taghavi , Liu Bingbing

Recent breakthroughs in semi-supervised semantic segmentation have been developed through contrastive learning. In prevalent pixel-wise contrastive learning solutions, the model maps pixels to deterministic representations and regularizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Haoyu Xie , Changqi Wang , Mingkai Zheng , Minjing Dong , Shan You , Chong Fu , Chang Xu

As AI systems grow more capable, it becomes increasingly important that their decisions remain understandable and aligned with human expectations. A key challenge is the limited interpretability of deep models. Post-hoc methods like GradCAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mahdi Alehdaghi , Rajarshi Bhattacharya , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Rafael M. O. Cruz , Maguelonne Heritier , Eric Granger

Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) has emerged as a powerful tool for mechanistic interpretability of large language models. Recent works apply SAE to protein language models (PLMs), aiming to extract and analyze biologically meaningful features from…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Xiangyu Liu , Haodi Lei , Yi Liu , Yang Liu , Wei Hu

We present a deep learning framework for probabilistic pixel-wise semantic segmentation, which we term Bayesian SegNet. Semantic segmentation is an important tool for visual scene understanding and a meaningful measure of uncertainty is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Alex Kendall , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Roberto Cipolla

Understanding the spatial architecture of the tumor microenvironment (TME) is critical to advance precision oncology. We present ProteinPNet, a novel framework based on prototypical part networks that discovers TME motifs from spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Louis McConnell , Jieran Sun , Theo Maffei , Raphael Gottardo , Marianna Rapsomaniki

The reasonable definition of semantic interpretability presents the core challenge in explainable AI. This paper proposes a method to modify a traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) into an interpretable compositional CNN, in order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Wen Shen , Zhihua Wei , Shikun Huang , Binbin Zhang , Jiaqi Fan , Ping Zhao , Quanshi Zhang

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

In recent years, instance segmentation has garnered significant attention across various applications. However, training a fully-supervised instance segmentation model requires costly both instance-level and pixel-level annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuchen Shen , Dong Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Liyong Fu , Qiaolin Ye

Vanilla pixel-level classifiers for semantic segmentation are based on a certain paradigm, involving the inner product of fixed prototypes obtained from the training set and pixel features in the test image. This approach, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xiaowen Ma , Zhenliang Ni , Xinghao Chen

With the increasing attention to pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), \eg, CLIP, substantial efforts have been devoted to many downstream tasks, especially in test-time adaptation (TTA). However, previous works focus on learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingyu Zhu , Shuo Wang , Beier Zhu , Miaoge Li , Yunfan Li , Junfeng Fang , Zhicai Wang , Dongsheng Wang , Hanwang Zhang

We address the problem of few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS), which aims to segment novel class objects in a target image with a few annotated samples. Though recent advances have been made by incorporating prototype-based metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyeongjun Kwon , Somi Jeong , Sunok Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

We introduce a novel deep learning-based framework to interpret 3D urban scenes represented as textured meshes. Based on the observation that object boundaries typically align with the boundaries of planar regions, our framework achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Weixiao Gao , Liangliang Nan , Bas Boom , Hugo Ledoux

The interpretability of neural networks has recently received extensive attention. Previous prototype-based explainable networks involved prototype activation in both reasoning and interpretation processes, requiring specific explainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yitao Peng , Yihang Liu , Longzhen Yang , Lianghua He

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) models achieve strong performance in segmenting novel classes with minimal labeled examples, yet their decision-making processes remain largely opaque. While explainable AI has advanced significantly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pasquale De Marinis , Uzay Kaymak , Rogier Brussee , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

Open set segmentation is a relatively new and unexploredtask, with just a handful of methods proposed to model suchtasks.We propose a novel method called CoReSeg thattackles the issue using class conditional reconstruction ofthe input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Ian Nunes , Matheus B. Pereira , Hugo Oliveira , Jefersson A. dos Santos , Marcus Poggi

This paper studies the problem of weakly open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (WOVSS), which learns to segment objects of arbitrary classes using mere image-text pairs. Existing works turn to enhance the vanilla vision transformer by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fei Zhang , Tianfei Zhou , Boyang Li , Hao He , Chaofan Ma , Tianjiao Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Recently, learned image compression has attracted considerable attention due to its superior performance over traditional methods. However, most existing approaches employ a single entropy model to estimate the probability distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chunhang Zheng , Zichang Ren , Dou Li

Semantic instance segmentation remains a challenging task. In this work we propose to tackle the problem with a discriminative loss function, operating at the pixel level, that encourages a convolutional network to produce a representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bert De Brabandere , Davy Neven , Luc Van Gool

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery is fundamental to Earth observation. Achieving accurate results requires integrating not only optical images but also physical variables such as the Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuxi Lu , Kunqi Li , Zhidong Li , Xiaohan Su , Biao Wu , Chenya Huang , Bin Liang