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Edge detection has been one of the most difficult challenges in computer vision because of the difficulty in identifying the borders and edges from the real-world images including objects of varying kinds and sizes. Methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Anjali Nambiyar Rajkumar Kannan

Transformers, renowned for their powerful feature extraction capabilities, have played an increasingly prominent role in various vision tasks. Especially, recent advancements present transformer with hierarchical structures such as Dilated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Jinghuai Jie , Yan Guo , Guixing Wu , Junmin Wu , Baojian Hua

This paper presents a context-aware tracing strategy (CATS) for crisp edge detection with deep edge detectors, based on an observation that the localization ambiguity of deep edge detectors is mainly caused by the mixing phenomenon of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Linxi Huan , Nan Xue , Xianwei Zheng , Wei He , Jianya Gong , Gui-Song Xia

Textures and edges contribute different information to image recognition. Edges and boundaries encode shape information, while textures manifest the appearance of regions. Despite the success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Ali Hatamizadeh , Demetri Terzopoulos , Andriy Myronenko

In the deep metric learning approach to image segmentation, a convolutional net densely generates feature vectors at the pixels of an image. Pairs of feature vectors are trained to be similar or different, depending on whether the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

Point cloud analysis is an area of increasing interest due to the development of 3D sensors that are able to rapidly measure the depth of scenes accurately. Unfortunately, applying deep learning techniques to perform point cloud analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Junming Zhang , Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Studies in the area of neuroscience have revealed the relationship between emotional patterns and brain functional regions, demonstrating that dynamic relationships between different brain regions are an essential factor affecting emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yijin Zhou , Fu Li , Yang Li , Youshuo Ji , Guangming Shi , Wenming Zheng , Lijian Zhang , Yuanfang Chen , Rui Cheng

A ResNet-based multi-path refinement CNN is used for object contour detection. For this task, we prioritise the effective utilization of the high-level abstraction capability of a ResNet, which leads to state-of-the-art results for edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Andre Peter Kelm , Vijesh Soorya Rao , Udo Zoelzer

This paper proposes a novel regularization approach to bias Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) toward utilizing edge and line features in their hidden layers. Rather than learning arbitrary kernels, we constrain the convolution layers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Christoph Linse , Beatrice Brückner , Thomas Martinetz

Line segments are ubiquitous in our human-made world and are increasingly used in vision tasks. They are complementary to feature points thanks to their spatial extent and the structural information they provide. Traditional line detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Rémi Pautrat , Daniel Barath , Viktor Larsson , Martin R. Oswald , Marc Pollefeys

We introduce an end-to-end learnable technique to robustly identify feature edges in 3D point cloud data. We represent these edges as a collection of parametric curves (i.e.,lines, circles, and B-splines). Accordingly, our deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xiaogang Wang , Yuelang Xu , Kai Xu , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Bin Zhou , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang

Spectral graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have been producing encouraging results in graph classification tasks. However, most spectral GCNNs utilize fixed graphs when aggregating node features, while omitting edge feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yang Yi , Xuequan Lu , Shang Gao , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Yuejie Zhang

The paper presents a new model for single channel images low-level interpretation. The image is decomposed into a graph which captures a complete set of structural features. The description allows to accurately identify every edge location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Alessandro Dal Palu'

Edges are a basic and fundamental feature in image processing, that are used directly or indirectly in huge amount of applications. Inspired by the expansion of image resolution and processing power dilated convolution techniques appeared.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Ciprian Orhei , Victor Bogdan , Cosmin Bonchis

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to constrain the problem or implicit constraints as formulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Reasoning about graphs evolving over time is a challenging concept in many domains, such as bioinformatics, physics, and social networks. We consider a common case in which edges can be short term interactions (e.g., messaging) or long term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-22 Boris Knyazev , Carolyn Augusta , Graham W. Taylor

Detecting local features, such as corners, segments or blobs, is the first step in the pipeline of many Computer Vision applications. Its speed is crucial for real-time applications. In this paper we present ELSED, the fastest line segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Iago Suárez , José M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela

Deep convolutional neural network significantly boosted the capability of salient object detection in handling large variations of scenes and object appearances. However, convolution operations seek to generate strong responses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sanping Zhou , Jimuyang Zhang , Jinjun Wang , Fei Wang , Dong Huang

Edges of an image are considered a crucial type of information. These can be extracted by applying edge detectors with different methodology. Edge detection is a vital step in computer vision tasks, because it is an essential issue for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Osvaldo Pereira , Esley Torre , Yasel Garcés , Roberto Rodríguez

Edge detection (ED) remains a fundamental task in computer vision, yet its performance is often hindered by the ambiguous nature of non-edge pixels near object boundaries. The widely adopted Weighted Binary Cross-Entropy (WBCE) loss treats…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Hao Shu