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Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most prominent objects in images. Advanced SOD methods often utilize various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Transformers for deep feature extraction. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shixuan Gao , Pingping Zhang , Tianyu Yan , Huchuan Lu

We introduce Appearance-MAT (AMAT), a generalization of the medial axis transform for natural images, that is framed as a weighted geometric set cover problem. We make the following contributions: i) we extend previous medial point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson

This work investigates the problem of instance-level image retrieval re-ranking with the constraint of memory efficiency, ultimately aiming to limit memory usage to 1KB per image. Departing from the prevalent focus on performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Pavel Suma , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ahmet Iscen , Giorgos Tolias

The recently proposed segment anything model (SAM) has made a significant influence in many computer vision tasks. It is becoming a foundation step for many high-level tasks, like image segmentation, image caption, and image editing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Xu Zhao , Wenchao Ding , Yongqi An , Yinglong Du , Tao Yu , Min Li , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Recent diffusion-based methods for material transfer rely on image fine-tuning or complex architectures with assistive networks, but face challenges including text dependency, extra computational costs, and feature misalignment. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Nisha Huang , Henglin Liu , Yizhou Lin , Kaer Huang , Chubin Chen , Jie Guo , Tong-Yee Lee , Xiu Li

Due to the difficulty and labor-consuming nature of getting highly accurate or matting annotations, there only exists a limited amount of highly accurate labels available to the public. To tackle this challenge, we propose a DiffuMatting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Xiaobin Hu , Xu Peng , Donghao Luo , Xiaozhong Ji , Jinlong Peng , Zhengkai Jiang , Jiangning Zhang , Taisong Jin , Chengjie Wang , Rongrong Ji

Following the successful paradigm shift of large language models, leveraging pre-training on a massive corpus of data and fine-tuning on different downstream tasks, generalist models have made their foray into computer vision. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Andrea Moglia , Matteo Leccardi , Matteo Cavicchioli , Alice Maccarini , Marco Marcon , Luca Mainardi , Pietro Cerveri

Bloodstain pattern analysis plays a crucial role in crime scene investigations by providing valuable information through the study of unique blood patterns. Conventional image analysis methods, like Thresholding and Contrast, impose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zihan Dong , ZhengDong Zhang

Medical imaging plays a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment planning of various medical conditions, with radiology and pathology heavily reliant on precise image segmentation. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Amin Ranem , Niklas Babendererde , Moritz Fuchs , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

We propose a method for creating a matte -- the per-pixel foreground color and alpha -- of a person by taking photos or videos in an everyday setting with a handheld camera. Most existing matting methods require a green screen background or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Soumyadip Sengupta , Vivek Jayaram , Brian Curless , Steve Seitz , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated its effectiveness in segmenting any part of 2D RGB images. However, SAM exhibits a stronger emphasis on texture information while paying less attention to geometry information when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jun Cen , Yizheng Wu , Kewei Wang , Xingyi Li , Jingkang Yang , Yixuan Pei , Lingdong Kong , Ziwei Liu , Qifeng Chen

Multimodal image fusion and semantic segmentation are critical for autonomous driving. Despite advancements, current models often struggle with segmenting densely packed elements due to a lack of comprehensive fusion features for guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Daixun Li , Weiying Xie , Mingxiang Cao , Yunke Wang , Yusi Zhang , Leyuan Fang , Yunsong Li , Chang Xu

Over the last few years, deep learning based approaches have achieved outstanding improvements in natural image matting. However, there are still two drawbacks that impede the widespread application of image matting: the reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yijie Zhong , Bo Li , Lv Tang , Hao Tang , Shouhong Ding

Cutting out an object and estimating its opacity mask, known as image matting, is a key task in many image editing applications. Deep learning approaches have made significant progress by adapting the encoder-decoder architecture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Marco Forte , François Pitié

Interactive segmentation is to segment the mask of the target object according to the user's interactive prompts. There are two mainstream strategies: early fusion and late fusion. Current specialist models utilize the early fusion strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Chongkai Yu , Ting Liu , Anqi Li , Xiaochao Qu , Chengjing Wu , Luoqi Liu , Xiaolin Hu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has garnered significant attention for its versatile segmentation abilities and intuitive prompt-based interface. However, its application in medical imaging presents challenges, requiring either substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhiheng Cheng , Qingyue Wei , Hongru Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangqiong Qu , Wei Shao , Yuyin Zhou

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at generating precise object masks from input prompts but lacks semantic awareness, failing to associate its generated masks with specific object categories. To address this limitation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rohit Kundu , Sudipta Paul , Arindam Dutta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has achieved remarkable successes in the realm of natural image segmentation, but its deployment in the medical imaging sphere has encountered challenges. Specifically, the model struggles with medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Shreyank N Gowda , David A. Clifton

Finding a template in a search image is one of the core problems many computer vision, such as semantic image semantic, image-to-GPS verification \etc. We propose a novel quality-aware template matching method, QATM, which is not only used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiaxin Cheng , Yue Wu , Wael Abd-Almageed , Premkumar Natarajan

Recently, plain vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance on various computer vision tasks, thanks to their strong modeling capacity and large-scale pretraining. However, they have not yet conquered the problem of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Shusheng Yang , Baoyuan Wang