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Hippocampus segmentation plays a key role in diagnosing various brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, depression and others. Nowadays, segmentation is still mainly performed manually by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Diedre Carmo , Bruna Silva , Clarissa Yasuda , Letícia Rittner , Roberto Lotufo

Introducing explicit constraints on the structural predictions has been an effective way to improve the performance of semantic segmentation models. Existing methods are mainly based on insufficient hand-crafted rules that only partially…

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In the large-scale image retrieval task, the two most important requirements are the discriminability of image representations and the efficiency in computation and storage of representations. Regarding the former requirement, Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Thanh-Toan Do , Tuan Hoang , Dang-Khoa Le Tan , Huu Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Image segmentation is a fundamental step for the interpretation of Remote Sensing Images. Clustering or segmentation methods usually precede the classification task and are used as support tools for manual labeling. The most common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Kiran Mantripragada , Faisal Z. Qureshi

We propose a novel method for sampling and optimization tasks based on a stochastic interacting particle system. We explain how this method can be used for the following two goals: (i) generating approximate samples from a given target…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-05 J. A. Carrillo , F. Hoffmann , A. M. Stuart , U. Vaes

We present a method for automated segmentation of the vasculature in retinal images. The method produces segmentations by classifying each image pixel as vessel or non-vessel, based on the pixel's feature vector. Feature vectors are…

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To address the challenging task of instance-aware human part parsing, a new bottom-up regime is proposed to learn category-level human semantic segmentation as well as multi-person pose estimation in a joint and end-to-end manner. It is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Si Liu , Yi Yang , Luc Van Gool

Annotation variability remains a substantial challenge in medical image segmentation, stemming from ambiguous imaging boundaries and diverse clinical expertise. Traditional deep learning methods producing single deterministic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Han Zhang , Xiangde Luo , Yong Chen , Kang Li

Sampling from very large spatial populations is challenging. The solutions suggested in recent literature on this subject often require that the randomly selected units are well distributed across the study region by using complex…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-26 Roberto Benedetti , Federica Piersimoni

In the domain of medical imaging, many supervised learning based methods for segmentation face several challenges such as high variability in annotations from multiple experts, paucity of labelled data and class imbalanced datasets. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Soumick Chatterjee , Franziska Gaidzik , Alessandro Sciarra , Hendrik Mattern , Gábor Janiga , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger , Sahani Pathiraja

Referring image segmentation aims to segment an object referred to by natural language expression from an image. However, this task is challenging due to the distinct data properties between text and image, and the randomness introduced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Wenxuan Wan , Jing Liu

Large parallax between images is an intractable issue in image stitching. Various warping-based methods are proposed to address it, yet the results are unsatisfactory. In this paper, we propose a novel image stitching method using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Tianli Liao , Ce Wang , Lei Li , Guangen Liu , Nan Li

Quantitative measurement of crystals in high-resolution images allows for important insights into underlying material characteristics. Deep learning has shown great progress in vision-based automatic crystal size measurement, but current…

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at assigning the pixels with similar feature into a same cluster without annotation, which is an important task in computer vision. Due to lack of prior knowledge, most of existing model usually need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhichao Wu , Lei Guo , Hao Zhang , Dan Xu

In image segmentation, there is often more than one plausible solution for a given input. In medical imaging, for example, experts will often disagree about the exact location of object boundaries. Estimating this inherent uncertainty and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Miguel Monteiro , Loïc Le Folgoc , Daniel Coelho de Castro , Nick Pawlowski , Bernardo Marques , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Mark van der Wilk , Ben Glocker

We propose efficient algorithms for two key tasks in the analysis of large nonuniform networks: uniform node sampling and cluster detection. Our sampling technique is based on augmenting a simple, but slowly mixing uniform MCMC sampler with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Pekka Orponen , Satu Elisa Schaeffer

Clustering functional data is a challenging task due to intrinsic infinite-dimensionality and the need for stable, data-adaptive partitioning. In this work, we propose a clustering framework based on Random Projections, which simultaneously…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-18 Matteo Mori , Laura Anderlucci

Subspace clustering is a powerful unsupervised approach for hyperspectral image (HSI) analysis, but its high computational and memory costs limit scalability. Superpixel segmentation can improve efficiency by reducing the number of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xianlu Li , Nicolas Nadisic , Shaoguang Huang , Aleksandra Pizurica

Semantic segmentation of Very High Resolution (VHR) remote sensing images is a fundamental task for many applications. However, large variations in the scales of objects in those VHR images pose a challenge for performing accurate semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yuanzhi Cai , Lei Fan , Yuan Fang

In this work, we present a multiscale kinetic framework for consensus-based image segmentation. By interpreting an image as a system of interacting particles, each pixel is characterised by its spatial position and an internal feature…

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