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This paper proposes a semantic segmentation method for outdoor scenes captured by a surveillance camera. Our algorithm classifies each perceptually homogenous region as one of the predefined classes learned from a collection of manually…

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Researches on signed languages still strongly dissociate lin- guistic issues related on phonological and phonetic aspects, and gesture studies for recognition and synthesis purposes. This paper focuses on the imbrication of motion and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Sylvie Gibet , Pierre-François Marteau , Kyle Duarte

Segmentation for continuous Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has traditionally used silence timeouts or voice activity detectors (VADs), which are both limited to acoustic features. This segmentation is often overly aggressive, given that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Piyush Behre , Naveen Parihar , Sharman Tan , Amy Shah , Eva Sharma , Geoffrey Liu , Shuangyu Chang , Hosam Khalil , Chris Basoglu , Sayan Pathak

Promptable foundation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) produce high-quality masks but remain semantically blind, relying on external prompts to specify categories. Existing vision-language approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shayan Jalilian , Abdul Bais

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision that involves segmenting images into semantically meaningful regions at the pixel level. However, existing approaches often rely on expensive human annotations as supervision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jun Chen , Deyao Zhu , Guocheng Qian , Bernard Ghanem , Zhicheng Yan , Chenchen Zhu , Fanyi Xiao , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Sean Chang Culatana

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

When a reader encounters a word in English, they split the word into smaller orthographic units in the process of recognizing its meaning. For example, "rough", when split according to phonemes, is decomposed as r-ou-gh (not as r-o-ugh or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Matthew Termuende , Kevin Larson , Miguel Nacenta

Recent progress in fine-grained gesture and action classification, and machine translation, point to the possibility of automated sign language recognition becoming a reality. A key stumbling block in making progress towards this goal is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Samuel Albanie , Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Neil Fox , Andrew Zisserman

As a fundamental and extensively studied task in computer vision, image segmentation aims to locate and identify different semantic concepts at the pixel level. Recently, inspired by In-Context Learning (ICL), several generalist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wei Suo , Lanqing Lai , Mengyang Sun , Hanwang Zhang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Semantic segmentation using deep neural networks has been widely explored to generate high-level contextual information for autonomous vehicles. To acquire a complete $180^\circ$ semantic understanding of the forward surroundings, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Wei Zhou , Alex Zyner , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

Sign language recognition is a challenging and often underestimated problem comprising multi-modal articulators (handshape, orientation, movement, upper body and face) that integrate asynchronously on multiple streams. Learning powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Oscar Koller

Sign language, which conveys meaning through gestures, is the chief means of communication among deaf people. Recognizing sign language in natural settings presents significant challenges due to factors such as lighting, background clutter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Bowen Shi

Easy Read text is one of the main forms of access to information for people with reading difficulties. One of the key characteristics of this type of text is the requirement to split sentences into smaller grammatical segments, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jesús Calleja , Thierry Etchegoyhen , David Ponce

Recent advancements in morpheme segmentation primarily emphasize word-level segmentation, often neglecting the contextual relevance within the sentence. In this study, we redefine the morpheme segmentation task as a sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Prabin Bhandari , Abhishek Paudel

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for text analysis tasks, such as named entity recognition or error detection. Unlike encoder-based models, however, generative architectures lack an explicit mechanism to refer to specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Danil Semin , Ondřej Dušek , Zdeněk Kasner

Vision-language segmentation models have recently achieved strong performance by leveraging high-level semantic object categories expressed in natural language. However, this semantic dependence limits their ability to reason about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Corentin Seutin , Mohamed Amine Ettaki , Michaël Clément , Pierrick Coupé , Rémi Giraud

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning in medical imaging analysis, medical image segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality labeled images for supervision. Further, the significant domain gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hedda Cohen Indelman , Elay Dahan , Angeles M. Perez-Agosto , Carmit Shiran , Doron Shaked , Nati Daniel

For real-life applications, it is crucial that end-to-end spoken language translation models perform well on continuous audio, without relying on human-supplied segmentation. For online spoken language translation, where models need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Chantal Amrhein , Barry Haddow

This paper proposes a novel method for high-quality image segmentation of both objects and scenes. Inspired by the dilation and erosion operations in morphological image processing techniques, the pixel-level image segmentation problems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hao He , Xiangtai Li , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Lubin Weng , Zhouchen Lin , Shiming Xiang

Image semantic segmentation is more and more being of interest for computer vision and machine learning researchers. Many applications on the rise need accurate and efficient segmentation mechanisms: autonomous driving, indoor navigation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Alberto Garcia-Garcia , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Sergiu Oprea , Victor Villena-Martinez , Jose Garcia-Rodriguez