English
Related papers

Related papers: OTAS: Unsupervised Boundary Detection for Object-C…

200 papers

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Object-centric representations are a promising path toward more systematic generalization by providing flexible abstractions upon which compositional world models can be built. Recent work on simple 2D and 3D datasets has shown that models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Thomas Kipf , Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Austin Stone , Sara Sabour , Georg Heigold , Rico Jonschkowski , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Klaus Greff

We describe an unsupervised method to detect and segment portions of images of live scenes that, at some point in time, are seen moving as a coherent whole, which we refer to as objects. Our method first partitions the motion field by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yanchao Yang , Brian Lai , Stefano Soatto

With the growing complexity of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the integration of Internet of Things (IoT), the use of sensors for online monitoring generates large volume of multivariate time series (MTS) data. Consequently, the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Charalampos Shimillas , Kleanthis Malialis , Konstantinos Fokianos , Marios M. Polycarpou

Semantic segmentation and activity classification are key components to creating intelligent surgical systems able to understand and assist clinical workflow. In the Operating Room, semantic segmentation is at the core of creating robots…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Idris Hamoud , Alexandros Karargyris , Aidean Sharghi , Omid Mohareri , Nicolas Padoy

Understanding 3D scene-level affordances from natural language instructions is essential for enabling embodied agents to interact meaningfully in complex environments. However, this task remains challenging due to the need for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lian He , Meng Liu , Qilang Ye , Yu Zhou , Xiang Deng , Gangyi Ding

We consider the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). Our approach mitigates shortcomings in previous VOS work by addressing detail preservation and temporal consistency using visual warping. In contrast to prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Julia Gong , F. Christopher Holsinger , Serena Yeung

Instance segmentation is essential for numerous computer vision applications, including robotics, human-computer interaction, and autonomous driving. Currently, popular models bring impressive performance in instance segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Cuong Manh Hoang

The main progress for action segmentation comes from densely-annotated data for fully-supervised learning. Since manual annotation for frame-level actions is time-consuming and challenging, we propose to exploit auxiliary unlabeled videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Min-Hung Chen , Baopu Li , Yingze Bao , Ghassan AlRegib

Automatic Video Object Segmentation (AVOS) refers to the task of autonomously segmenting target objects in video sequences without relying on human-provided annotations in the first frames. In AVOS, the use of motion information is crucial,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Sota Kawamura , Hirotada Honda , Shugo Nakamura , Takashi Sano

Boundary detection is essential for a variety of computer vision tasks such as segmentation and recognition. In this paper we propose a unified formulation and a novel algorithm that are applicable to the detection of different types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Marius Leordeanu , Rahul Sukthankar , Cristian Sminchisescu

Transferring existing image-based detectors to the video is non-trivial since the quality of frames is always deteriorated by part occlusion, rare pose, and motion blur. Previous approaches exploit to propagate and aggregate features across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhengkai Jiang , Yu Liu , Ceyuan Yang , Jihao Liu , Peng Gao , Qian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Semantic segmentation is an important task for intelligent vehicles to understand the environment. Current deep learning methods require large amounts of labeled data for training. Manual annotation is expensive, while simulators can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Weihao Yan , Yeqiang Qian , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Understanding human behavior is an important problem in the pursuit of visual intelligence. A challenge in this endeavor is the extensive and costly effort required to accurately label action segments. To address this issue, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Seth Z. Zhao , Reza Ghoddoosian , Isht Dwivedi , Nakul Agarwal , Behzad Dariush

Nighttime semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in practical applications, such as autonomous driving, where it frequently encounters difficulties caused by inadequate illumination conditions and the absence of well-annotated datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jingyi Pan , Sihang Li , Yucheng Chen , Jinjing Zhu , Lin Wang

Various convolutional neural network (CNN) based concepts have been introduced for the prostate's automatic segmentation and its coarse subdivision into transition zone (TZ) and peripheral zone (PZ). However, when targeting a fine-grained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Anneke Meyer , Suhita Ghosh , Daniel Schindele , Martin Schostak , Sebastian Stober , Christian Hansen , Marko Rak

Instance-aware segmentation of unseen objects is essential for a robotic system in an unstructured environment. Although previous works achieved encouraging results, they were limited to segmenting the only visible regions of unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Seunghyeok Back , Joosoon Lee , Taewon Kim , Sangjun Noh , Raeyoung Kang , Seongho Bak , Kyoobin Lee

Out-of-distribution (OoD) detection and segmentation have attracted growing attention as concerns about AI security rise. Conventional OoD detection methods identify the existence of OoD objects but lack spatial localization, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Wenjie Zhao , Jia Li , Yunhui Guo

Open-Set Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation (OSDA-SS) presents a significant challenge, as it requires both domain adaptation for known classes and the distinction of unknowns. Existing methods attempt to address both tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenqi Ren , Weijie Wang , Meng Zheng , Ziyan Wu , Yang Tang , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe

We propose an adaptation to the training of Vision Transformers (ViTs) that allows for an explicit modeling of objects during the attention computation. This is achieved by adding a new branch to selected attention layers that computes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Vivek Trivedy , Amani Almalki , Longin Jan Latecki