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We propose continual instance learning - a method that applies the concept of continual learning to the task of distinguishing instances of the same object category. We specifically focus on the car object, and incrementally learn to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Kishan Parshotam , Mert Kilickaya

Deep segmentation networks achieve high performance when trained on specific datasets. However, in clinical practice, it is often desirable that pretrained segmentation models can be dynamically extended to enable segmenting new organs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Vince Zhu , Zhanghexuan Ji , Dazhou Guo , Puyang Wang , Yingda Xia , Le Lu , Xianghua Ye , Wei Zhu , Dakai Jin

Continual learning (CL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm to enable large language models (LLMs) to dynamically adapt to evolving knowledge and sequential tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting-a critical limitation of the static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hongyang Chen , Zhongwu Sun , Hongfei Ye , Kunchi Li , Xuemin Lin

Continual shrinking of pattern dimensions in the semiconductor domain is making it increasingly difficult to inspect defects due to factors such as the presence of stochastic noise and the dynamic behavior of defect patterns and types.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Vic De Ridder , Bappaditya Dey , Enrique Dehaerne , Sandip Halder , Stefan De Gendt , Bartel Van Waeyenberge

Artificial intelligence systems in critical fields like autonomous driving and medical imaging analysis often continually learn new tasks using a shared stream of input data. For instance, after learning to detect traffic signs, a model may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hanchen David Wang , Siwoo Bae , Zirong Chen , Meiyi Ma

Edge detection remains a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, especially under varying illumination, noise, and complex scene conditions. This paper introduces a Hybrid Multi-Stage Learning Framework that integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Mark Phil Pacot , Jayno Juventud , Gleen Dalaorao

Methods for teaching motion skills to robots focus on training for a single skill at a time. Robots capable of learning from demonstration can considerably benefit from the added ability to learn new movement skills without forgetting what…

Automated surface inspection is an important task in many manufacturing industries and often requires machine learning driven solutions. Supervised approaches, however, can be challenging, since it is often difficult to obtain large amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Matthias Haselmann , Dieter P. Gruber , Paul Tabatabai

Deep learning techniques have become one of the main propellers for solving engineering problems effectively and efficiently. For instance, Predictive Maintenance methods have been used to improve predictions of when maintenance is needed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Julio Hurtado , Dario Salvati , Rudy Semola , Mattia Bosio , Vincenzo Lomonaco

3D point cloud segmentation is an important function that helps robots understand the layout of their surrounding environment and perform tasks such as grasping objects, avoiding obstacles, and finding landmarks. Current segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jingdao Chen , Zsolt Kira , Yong K. Cho

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art and sometimes super-human performance across various domains. However, when learning tasks sequentially, the networks easily forget the knowledge of previous tasks, known as "catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Shixiang Tang , Dapeng Chen , Jinguo Zhu , Shijie Yu , Wanli Ouyang

Deep neural networks are typically trained in a single shot for a specific task and data distribution, but in real world settings both the task and the domain of application can change. The problem becomes even more challenging in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Donald Shenaj , Francesco Barbato , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

We propose a novel continual learning method called Residual Continual Learning (ResCL). Our method can prevent the catastrophic forgetting phenomenon in sequential learning of multiple tasks, without any source task information except the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Janghyeon Lee , Donggyu Joo , Hyeong Gwon Hong , Junmo Kim

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a three-level hierarchical Bayesian model for topic inference. In spite of its great success, inferring the latent topic distribution with LDA is time-consuming. Motivated by the transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Dongxu Zhang , Tianyi Luo , Dong Wang , Rong Liu

The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka

Face segmentation is the task of densely labeling pixels on the face according to their semantics. While current methods place an emphasis on developing sophisticated architectures, use conditional random fields for smoothness, or rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Iacopo Masi , Joe Mathai , Wael AbdAlmageed

We study the common continual learning setup where an overparameterized model is sequentially fitted to a set of jointly realizable tasks. We analyze forgetting, defined as the loss on previously seen tasks, after $k$ iterations. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Itay Evron , Ran Levinstein , Matan Schliserman , Uri Sherman , Tomer Koren , Daniel Soudry , Nathan Srebro

Current successful approaches for generic (non-semantic) segmentation rely mostly on edge detection and have leveraged the strengths of deep learning mainly by improving the edge detection stage in the algorithmic pipeline. This is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Or Isaacs , Oran Shayer , Michael Lindenbaum

Continual learning on edge devices poses unique challenges due to stringent resource constraints. This paper introduces a novel method that leverages stochastic competition principles to promote sparsity, significantly reducing deep network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Theodoros Christophides , Kyriakos Tolias , Sotirios Chatzis

We propose a learnable variational model that learns the features and leverages complementary information from both image and measurement domains for image reconstruction. In particular, we introduce a learned alternating minimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chi Ding , Qingchao Zhang , Ge Wang , Xiaojing Ye , Yunmei Chen