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In this paper we propose a novel deep learning-based algorithm for biomedical image segmentation which uses a sequential attention mechanism able to shift the focus of attention across the image in a selective way, allowing subareas which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Shohei Hayashi , Bisser Raytchev , Toru Tamaki , Kazufumi Kaneda

Accurate medical image segmentation allows for the precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions, which is essential for treatment planning, surgical navigation, and disease monitoring. Both CNN-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Libin Lan , Yanxin Li , Xiaojuan Liu , Juan Zhou , Jianxun Zhang , Nannan Huang , Yudong Zhang

In this paper, we focus on the challenging multicategory instance segmentation problem in remote sensing images (RSIs), which aims at predicting the categories of all instances and localizing them with pixel-level masks. Although many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tianyang Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Peng Zhu , Xu Tang , Chen Li , Licheng Jiao , Huiyu Zhou

In industrial defect segmentation tasks, while pixel accuracy and Intersection over Union (IoU) are commonly employed metrics to assess segmentation performance, the output consistency (also referred to equivalence) of the model is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhen Qu , Xian Tao , Fei Shen , Zhengtao Zhang , Tao Li

In computer vision tasks, the ability to focus on relevant regions within an image is crucial for improving model performance, particularly when key features are small, subtle, or spatially dispersed. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mahmudul Hasan

Current state-of-the-art medical image segmentation methods prioritize accuracy but often at the expense of increased computational demands and larger model sizes. Applying these large-scale models to the relatively limited scale of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiahui Zhong , Wenhong Tian , Yuanlun Xie , Zhijia Liu , Jie Ou , Taoran Tian , Lei Zhang

We propose a novel Synergistic Attention Network (SA-Net) to address the light field salient object detection by establishing a synergistic effect between multi-modal features with advanced attention mechanisms. Our SA-Net exploits the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yi Zhang , Geng Chen , Qian Chen , Yujia Sun , Yong Xia , Olivier Deforges , Wassim Hamidouche , Lu Zhang

Image segmentation plays an important role in vision understanding. Recently, the emerging vision foundation models continuously achieved superior performance on various tasks. Following such success, in this paper, we prove that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinyu Xiong , Zihuang Wu , Shuangyi Tan , Wenxue Li , Feilong Tang , Ying Chen , Siying Li , Jie Ma , Guanbin Li

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be state-of-the-art models for visual cortical neurons. Cortical neurons in the primary visual cortex are sensitive to contextual information mediated by extensive horizontal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Isaac Lin , Tianye Wang , Shang Gao , Shiming Tang , Tai Sing Lee

Large-scale semantic segmentation networks often achieve high performance, while their application can be challenging when faced with limited sample sizes and computational resources. In scenarios with restricted network size and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wentao Wang , Xili Wang

Semi-supervised change detection (SSCD) aims to detect changes between bi-temporal remote sensing images by utilizing limited labeled data and abundant unlabeled data. Existing methods struggle in complex scenarios, exhibiting poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qi'ao Xu , Pengfei Wang , Yanjun Li , Tianwen Qian , Xiaoling Wang

Melanoma is a malignant tumor that originates from skin cell lesions. Accurate and efficient segmentation of skin lesions is essential for quantitative analysis but remains a challenge due to blurred lesion boundaries, gradual color…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Saqib Qamar , Syed Furqan Qadri , Roobaea Alroobaea , Goram Mufarah M Alshmrani , Richard Jiang

We consider the problem of segmentation and classification of high-resolution and hyperspectral remote sensing images. Unlike conventional natural (RGB) images, the inherent large scale and complex structures of remote sensing images pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Qingsong Xu , Xin Yuan , Chaojun Ouyang , Yue Zeng

Fully convolutional neural networks like U-Net have been the state-of-the-art methods in medical image segmentation. Practically, a network is highly specialized and trained separately for each segmentation task. Instead of a collection of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Chao Huang , Hu Han , Qingsong Yao , Shankuan Zhu , S. Kevin Zhou

The remote sensing image change detection task is an essential method for large-scale monitoring. We propose HSANet, a network that uses hierarchical convolution to extract multi-scale features. It incorporates hybrid self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chengxi Han , Xiaoyu Su , Zhiqiang Wei , Meiqi Hu , Yichu Xu

Semantic segmentation, which aims to classify every pixel in an image, is a key task in machine perception, with many applications across robotics and autonomous driving. Due to the high dimensionality of this task, most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Alex Zihao Zhu , Jieru Mei , Siyuan Qiao , Hang Yan , Yukun Zhu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Henrik Kretzschmar

Most of the recent successful methods in accurate object detection build on the convolutional neural networks (CNN). However, due to the lack of scale normalization in CNN-based detection methods, the activated channels in the feature space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Yonghyun Kim , Bong-Nam Kang , Daijin Kim

Translating freehand sketches into photorealistic images remains a fundamental challenge in image synthesis, particularly due to the abstract, sparse, and stylistically diverse nature of sketches. Existing approaches, including GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ali Zia , Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Usman Ali , Muhammad Faheem , Abdelwahed Khamis , Shahnawaz Qureshi

Achieving top-notch performance in Intelligent Transportation detection is a critical research area. However, many challenges still need to be addressed when it comes to detecting in a cross-domain scenario. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tong Xiang , Hongxia Zhao , Fenghua Zhu , Yuanyuan Chen , Yisheng Lv

Learning light-weight yet expressive deep networks in both image synthesis and image recognition remains a challenging problem. Inspired by a more recent observation that it is the data-specificity that makes the multi-head self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jianghao Shen , Tianfu Wu