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Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision, where each pixel in an image is classified into a category. However, traditional methods face significant challenges, including the need for pixel-level annotations and extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yasufumi Kawano , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims to segment image regions beyond predefined category sets by leveraging semantic descriptions. While CLIP based approaches excel in semantic generalization, they frequently lack the fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Haoxi Zeng , Qiankun Liu , Yi Bin , Haiyue Zhang , Yujuan Ding , Guoqing Wang , Deqiang Ouyang , Heng Tao Shen

An efficient and effective decoding mechanism is crucial in medical image segmentation, especially in scenarios with limited computational resources. However, these decoding mechanisms usually come with high computational costs. To address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Md Mostafijur Rahman , Mustafa Munir , Radu Marculescu

Semantic information has been proved effective in scene text recognition. Most existing methods tend to couple both visual and semantic information in an attention-based decoder. As a result, the learning of semantic features is prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Changxu Cheng , Bohan Li , Qi Zheng , Yongpan Wang , Wenyu Liu

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in multimedia processing, which can be used for analyzing, understanding, editing contents of images and videos, among others. To accelerate the analysis of multimedia data, existing segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhiyan Wang , Deyin Liu , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Song Wang , Xin Guo , Lin Qi

Sound Event Detection (SED) aims to predict the temporal boundaries of all the events of interest and their class labels, given an unconstrained audio sample. Taking either the splitand-classify (i.e., frame-level) strategy or the more…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Swapnil Bhosale , Sauradip Nag , Diptesh Kanojia , Jiankang Deng , Xiatian Zhu

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) entails assigning semantic labels to each pixel in an image using textual descriptions, typically leveraging world models such as CLIP. To enhance out-of-domain generalization, we propose Cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aditya Gandhamal , Aniruddh Sikdar , Suresh Sundaram

Semantic segmentation labels are expensive and time consuming to acquire. Hence, pretraining is commonly used to improve the label-efficiency of segmentation models. Typically, the encoder of a segmentation model is pretrained as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Emmanuel Brempong Asiedu , Simon Kornblith , Ting Chen , Niki Parmar , Matthias Minderer , Mohammad Norouzi

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims at segmenting arbitrary categories expressed in textual form. Previous works have trained over large amounts of image-caption pairs to enforce pixel-level multimodal alignments. However, captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Luca Barsellotti , Roberto Amoroso , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Semantic segmentation assigns labels to pixels in images, a critical yet challenging task in computer vision. Convolutional methods, although capturing local dependencies well, struggle with long-range relationships. Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mian Muhammad Naeem Abid , Nancy Mehta , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

To address the limitations of existing open-vocabulary object recognition methods, specifically high system complexity, substantial training costs, and limited generalization, this paper proposes a novel Open-Vocabulary Object Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Wei Yu Chen , Ying Dai

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a label to each pixel in the image.In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have been driving advances in multiple tasks related to cognition. Although, DCNNs have resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aditya Ganeshan

Semantic segmentation remains a computationally intensive algorithm for embedded deployment even with the rapid growth of computation power. Thus efficient network design is a critical aspect especially for applications like automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Arindam Das , Saranya Kandan , Senthil Yogamani , Pavel Krizek

Semantic segmentation of electron microscopy (EM) images of biological samples remains a challenge in the life sciences. EM data captures details of biological structures, sometimes with such complexity that even human observers can find it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sheida Rahnamai Kordasiabi , Damian Dalle Nogare , Florian Jug

Real-time semantic segmentation is a challenging task that requires high-accuracy models with low-inference times. Implementing these models on embedded systems is limited by hardware capability and memory usage, which produces bottlenecks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Miguel Lopez-Montiel , Daniel Alejandro Lopez , Oscar Montiel

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang

Referring image segmentation aims to produce a pixel-level mask for the image region described by a natural-language expression. Although pretrained vision-language models have improved semantic grounding, many existing methods still rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

We present SEED (Semantic Evaluation for Visual Brain Decoding), a novel metric for evaluating the semantic decoding performance of visual brain decoding models. It integrates three complementary metrics, each capturing a different aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Juhyeon Park , Peter Yongho Kim , Jiook Cha , Shinjae Yoo , Taesup Moon

Semantic segmentation is one of the most fundamental problems in computer vision with significant impact on a wide variety of applications. Adversarial learning is shown to be an effective approach for improving semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Hadi Jamali-Rad , Attila Szabo

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign labels to every pixel in an image based on text labels. Existing approaches typically utilize vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, for dense prediction. However, VLMs, pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhen Yao , Xin Li , Taotao Jing , Shuai Zhang , Mooi Choo Chuah