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Medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced by deep learning (DL) techniques, though the data scarcity inherent in medical applications poses a great challenge to DL-based segmentation methods. Self-supervised learning offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Binyan Hu , A. K. Qin

We present LSeg, a novel model for language-driven semantic image segmentation. LSeg uses a text encoder to compute embeddings of descriptive input labels (e.g., "grass" or "building") together with a transformer-based image encoder that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Boyi Li , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Serge Belongie , Vladlen Koltun , René Ranftl

We share our recent findings in an attempt to train a universal segmentation network for various cell types and imaging modalities. Our method was built on the generalized U-Net architecture, which allows the evaluation of each component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Tianqi Guo , Yin Wang , Luis Solorio , Jan P. Allebach

Many computer vision systems require low-cost segmentation algorithms based on deep learning, either because of the enormous size of input images or limited computational budget. Common solutions uniformly downsample the input images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Chen Jin , Ryutaro Tanno , Thomy Mertzanidou , Eleftheria Panagiotaki , Daniel C. Alexander

Text-to-image generation has greatly advanced content creation, yet accurately rendering visual text remains a key challenge due to blurred glyphs, semantic drift, and limited style control. Existing methods often rely on pre-rendered glyph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuanrui Wang , Cong Han , Yafei Li , Zhipeng Jin , Xiawei Li , SiNan Du , Wen Tao , Yi Yang , Shuanglong Li , Chun Yuan , Liu Lin

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Universal Image Segmentation is not a new concept. Past attempts to unify image segmentation in the last decades include scene parsing, panoptic segmentation, and, more recently, new panoptic architectures. However, such panoptic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jitesh Jain , Jiachen Li , MangTik Chiu , Ali Hassani , Nikita Orlov , Humphrey Shi

Training semantic segmentation models on multiple datasets has sparked a lot of recent interest in the computer vision community. This interest has been motivated by expensive annotations and a desire to achieve proficiency across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Petra Bevandić , Siniša Šegvić

Amodal segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict the complete geometric shape of objects, including their occluded regions. Although existing methods primarily focus on amodal segmentation within the training domain, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Bo Zhang , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Tao , Songlin Tang , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the entities' masks that match the descriptive language expression. While traditional RES methods primarily address object-level grounding, real-world scenarios demand a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jing Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Xingjian He , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Xinlong Wang

Unsupervised image semantic segmentation(UISS) aims to match low-level visual features with semantic-level representations without outer supervision. In this paper, we address the critical properties from the view of feature alignments and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Daoan Zhang , Chenming Li , Haoquan Li , Wenjian Huang , Lingyun Huang , Jianguo Zhang

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at generating precise object masks from input prompts but lacks semantic awareness, failing to associate its generated masks with specific object categories. To address this limitation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rohit Kundu , Sudipta Paul , Arindam Dutta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Reasoning segmentation aims to segment target objects in complex scenes based on human intent and spatial reasoning. While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive 2D image reasoning segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Huang , Runnan Chen , Ziwen Li , Zhengqing Gao , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

The Segmentation Anything Model (SAM) requires labor-intensive data labeling. We present Unsupervised SAM (UnSAM) for promptable and automatic whole-image segmentation that does not require human annotations. UnSAM utilizes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 XuDong Wang , Jingfeng Yang , Trevor Darrell

Robust segmentation is critical for deriving quantitative measures from large-scale, multi-center, and longitudinal medical scans. Manually annotating medical scans, however, is expensive and labor-intensive and may not always be available…

Zero- and few-shot visual anomaly segmentation relies on powerful vision-language models that detect unseen anomalies using manually designed textual prompts. However, visual representations are inherently independent of language. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bin-Bin Gao

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to obtain high-level semantic representation on low-level visual features without manual annotations. Most existing methods are bottom-up approaches that try to group pixels into regions based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhaoyuan Yin , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Xianzhe Xu , Hanling Zhang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Pixel-level vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, require extensive and high-quality annotated data, which is costly to obtain. Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) has emerged as a solution to alleviate the labeling burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Danhui Chen , Ziquan Liu , Chuxi Yang , Dan Wang , Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji

Existing approaches for the problem of ultrasound image segmentation, whether supervised or semi-supervised, are typically specialized for specific anatomical structures or tasks, limiting their practical utility in clinical settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yaxiong Chen , Qicong Wang , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou