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Learning-based edge detection usually suffers from predicting thick edges. Through extensive quantitative study with a new edge crispness measure, we find that noisy human-labeled edges are the main cause of thick predictions. Based on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yunfan Ye , Renjiao Yi , Zhirui Gao , Zhiping Cai , Kai Xu

We study causal discovery from observational data in linear Gaussian systems affected by \emph{mixed latent confounding}, where some unobserved factors act broadly across many variables while others influence only small subsets. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Amir Asiaee , Samhita Pal , James O'quinn , James P. Long

Existing edge-aware camouflaged object detection (COD) methods normally output the edge prediction in the early stage. However, edges are important and fundamental factors in the following segmentation task. Due to the high visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dongyue Sun , Shiyao Jiang , Lin Qi

Edge detection, a basic task in the field of computer vision, is an important preprocessing operation for the recognition and understanding of a visual scene. In conventional models, the edge image generated is ambiguous, and the edge lines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Dawei Dai , Chunjie Wang , Shuyin Xia , Yingge Liu , Guoyin Wang

Edge detection has long been an important problem in the field of computer vision. Previous works have explored category-agnostic or category-aware edge detection. In this paper, we explore edge detection in the context of object instances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Xueyan Zou , Haotian Liu , Yong Jae Lee

Edge classification, a crucial task for graph applications, remains relatively under-explored compared to link prediction. Current methods often overlook the potential causal influences of node features on edge features, leading to a loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Duanyu Feng , Li Ding , Hongru Liang , Wenqiang Lei

There has been profound progress in visual saliency thanks to the deep learning architectures, however, there still exist three major challenges that hinder the detection performance for scenes with complex compositions, multiple salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Fatih Porikli , Mingyi He

Edge detection is among the most fundamental vision problems for its role in perceptual grouping and its wide applications. Recent advances in representation learning have led to considerable improvements in this area. Many state of the art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Zhiding Yu , Weiyang Liu , Yang Zou , Chen Feng , Srikumar Ramalingam , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar , Jan Kautz

This paper presents an edge-based defocus blur estimation method from a single defocused image. We first distinguish edges that lie at depth discontinuities (called depth edges, for which the blur estimate is ambiguous) from edges that lie…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ali Karaali , Naomi Harte , Claudio Rosito Jung

Accurate localization of organ boundaries is critical in medical imaging for segmentation, registration, surgical planning, and radiotherapy. While deep convolutional networks (ConvNets) have advanced general-purpose edge detection to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aarav Mehta , Priya Deshmukh , Vikram Singh , Siddharth Malhotra , Krishnan Menon Iyer , Tanvi Iyer

Edge points on 3D point clouds can clearly convey 3D geometry and surface characteristics, therefore, edge detection is widely used in many vision applications with high industrial and commercial demands. However, the fine-grained edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yifei Xie , Zhikun Tu , Tong Yang , Yuhe Zhang , Xinyu Zhou

This review provides an overview of the literature on the edge detection methods for pattern recognition that inspire from the understanding of human vision. We note that edge detection is one of the most fundamental process within the low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Alex Pappachen James

Convolutional neural networks are able to perform a hierarchical learning process starting with local features. However, a limited attention is paid to enhancing such elementary level features like edges. We propose and evaluate two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 D. D. N. De Silva , S. Fernando , I. T. S. Piyatilake , A. V. S. Karunarathne

Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods focus on primary region extraction and ignore edge information, which is useful for obtaining accurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhijie Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Hang Dai , Jianbing Shen , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao

Recent methods for boundary or edge detection built on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) typically suffer from the issue of predicted edges being thick and need post-processing to obtain crisp boundaries. Highly imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Ruoxi Deng , Chunhua Shen , Shengjun Liu , Huibing Wang , Xinru Liu

Contour detection has been a fundamental component in many image segmentation and object detection systems. Most previous work utilizes low-level features such as texture or saliency to detect contours and then use them as cues for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Gedas Bertasius , Jianbo Shi , Lorenzo Torresani

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have shown their advantages in the salient object detection task. However, most existing FCNs-based methods still suffer from coarse object boundaries. In this paper, to solve this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jia-Xing Zhao , Jiangjiang Liu , Den-Ping Fan , Yang Cao , Jufeng Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

Lots of neural network architectures have been proposed to deal with learning tasks on graph-structured data. However, most of these models concentrate on only node features during the learning process. The edge features, which usually play…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Jun Chen , Haopeng Chen

We develop a novel deep contour detection algorithm with a top-down fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. Our proposed method, named TD-CEDN, solves two important issues in this low-level vision problem: (1) learning multi-scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Yahui Liu , Jian Yao , Li Li , Xiaohu Lu , Jing Han

Scientists at the Berkeley SETI Research Center are Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by a new signal detection method that converts radio signals into spectrograms through Fourier transforms and classifies signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zhewei Chen , Sami Ahmed Haider