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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 work we address the task of semantic image segmentation with Deep Learning and make three main contributions that are experimentally shown to have substantial practical merit. First, we highlight convolution with upsampled filters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Liang-Chieh Chen , George Papandreou , Iasonas Kokkinos , Kevin Murphy , Alan L. Yuille

Image segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications in industry. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently attracted intensive attention; however, its application in industrial inspection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zheming Zuo , Joseph Smith , Jonathan Stonehouse , Boguslaw Obara

Image segmentation is about grouping pixels with different semantics, e.g., category or instance membership, where each choice of semantics defines a task. While only the semantics of each task differ, current research focuses on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Ishan Misra , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov , Rohit Girdhar

Semantic segmentation of microscopy cell images by deep learning is a significant technique. We considered that the Transformers, which have recently outperformed CNNs in image recognition, could also be improved and developed for cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hinako Mitsuoka , Kazuhiro Hotta

High-resolution remote sensing imagery increasingly contains dense clusters of tiny objects, the detection of which is extremely challenging due to severe mutual occlusion and limited pixel footprints. Existing detection methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhicheng Zhao , Xuanang Fan , Lingma Sun , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

The CNN-based methods have achieved impressive results in medical image segmentation, but they failed to capture the long-range dependencies due to the inherent locality of the convolution operation. Transformer-based methods are recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiaohong Huang , Zhifang Deng , Dandan Li , Xueguang Yuan

Aerial Image Segmentation is a top-down perspective semantic segmentation and has several challenging characteristics such as strong imbalance in the foreground-background distribution, complex background, intra-class heterogeneity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Kashu Yamazaki , Taisei Hanyu , Minh Tran , Adrian de Luis , Roy McCann , Haitao Liao , Chase Rainwater , Meredith Adkins , Jackson Cothren , Ngan Le

In medical image segmentation, specialized computer vision techniques, notably transformers grounded in attention mechanisms and residual networks employing skip connections, have been instrumental in advancing performance. Nonetheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Fuchen Zheng , Xuhang Chen , Weihuang Liu , Haolun Li , Yingtie Lei , Jiahui He , Chi-Man Pun , Shounjun Zhou

Vision Transformer and its variants have demonstrated great potential in various computer vision tasks. But conventional vision transformers often focus on global dependency at a coarse level, which suffer from a learning challenge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunhao Wang , Huixin Sun , Xiaodi Wang , Bin Zhang , Chao Li , Ying Xin , Baochang Zhang , Errui Ding , Shumin Han

Recent advances in transformer-based models have drawn attention to exploring these techniques in medical image segmentation, especially in conjunction with the U-Net model (or its variants), which has shown great success in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Xiangyi Yan , Hao Tang , Shanlin Sun , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiaohui Xie

Recently, Transformer-based image restoration networks have achieved promising improvements over convolutional neural networks due to parameter-independent global interactions. To lower computational cost, existing works generally limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Jiale Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Yongbing Zhang , Linghe Kong , Xin Yuan

Existing image-to-image transformation approaches primarily focus on synthesizing visually pleasing data. Generating images with correct identity labels is challenging yet much less explored. It is even more challenging to deal with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wei Xiong , Yutong He , Yixuan Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Lin Ma , Jiebo Luo

Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved excellent performance on vision tasks by measuring the global self-attention among the image patches. Given $n$ patches, they will have quadratic complexity such as $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiquan Shan , Junxiao Wang , Lifeng Zhao , Liang Cai , Hongyuan Zhang , Ioannis Liritzis

Convolutional layers are an integral part of many deep neural network solutions in computer vision. Recent work shows that replacing the standard convolution operation with mechanisms based on self-attention leads to improved performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Souvik Kundu , Hesham Mostafa , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan

As acquiring pixel-wise annotations of real-world images for semantic segmentation is a costly process, a model can instead be trained with more accessible synthetic data and adapted to real images without requiring their annotations. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Deep learning has revolutionized the field of hyperspectral image (HSI) analysis, enabling the extraction of complex spectral and spatial features. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the backbone of HSI classification,…

Vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in classification by leveraging global self-attention to capture long-range dependencies. However, this same mechanism can obscure fine-grained spatial details crucial for tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sina Hajimiri , Farzad Beizaee , Fereshteh Shakeri , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Microscopic image segmentation is a challenging task, wherein the objective is to assign semantic labels to each pixel in a given microscopic image. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) form the foundation of many existing frameworks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mustansar Fiaz , Moein Heidari , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Hisham Cholakkal

Autofocus (AF) methods are extensively used in biomicroscopy, for example to acquire timelapses, where the imaged objects tend to drift out of focus. AD algorithms determine an optimal distance by which to move the sample back into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling