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Surgical scene segmentation is essential for enhancing surgical precision, yet it is frequently compromised by the scarcity and imbalance of available data. To address these challenges, semantic image synthesis methods based on generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yihang Zhou , Rebecca Towning , Zaid Awad , Stamatia Giannarou

In the realm of high-resolution (HR), fine-grained image segmentation, the primary challenge is balancing broad contextual awareness with the precision required for detailed object delineation, capturing intricate details and the finest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qian Yu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Semantic segmentation is essential in computer vision for various applications, yet traditional approaches face significant challenges, including the high cost of annotation and extensive training for supervised learning. Additionally, due…

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

The deficiency of segmentation labels is one of the main obstacles to semantic segmentation in the wild. To alleviate this issue, we present a novel framework that generates segmentation labels of images given their image-level class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jiwoon Ahn , Suha Kwak

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task where classification is performed at a pixel level. Due to this, the process of labeling images for semantic segmentation is time-consuming and expensive. To mitigate this cost there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Javier Montalvo , Álvaro García-Martín , Pablo Carballeira , Juan C. SanMiguel

Transferring visual style between images while preserving semantic correspondence between similar objects remains a central challenge in computer vision. While existing methods have made great strides, most of them operate at global level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Wenbo Nie , Zixiang Li , Renshuai Tao , Bin Wu , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Image diffusion models, though originally developed for image generation, implicitly capture rich semantic structures that enable various recognition and localization tasks beyond synthesis. In this work, we investigate their self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Youngseo Kim , Dohyun Kim , Geonhee Han , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Language-driven image segmentation is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, requiring models to segment regions of an image corresponding to natural language expressions. Traditional methods approach this as a discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yuhao Chen , Shubin Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

Models for semantic segmentation require a large amount of hand-labeled training data which is costly and time-consuming to produce. For this purpose, we present a label fusion framework that is capable of improving semantic pixel labels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Florian Fervers , Timo Breuer , Gregor Stachowiak , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

Diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) recently becomes one of the hottest topic in computer vision. Its image generation application such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models and Stable Diffusion have shown impressive generation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Huihui Fang , Yu Zhang , Yehui Yang , Haoyi Xiong , Huiying Liu , Yanwu Xu

As powerful generative models, text-to-image diffusion models have recently been explored for discriminative tasks. A line of research focuses on adapting a pre-trained diffusion model to semantic segmentation without any further training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Benyuan Meng , Qianqian Xu , Zitai Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Longtao Huang , Qingming Huang

Image segmentation is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, studied continuously over several decades, as evidenced by seminal algorithms such as N-Cut, FCN, and MaskFormer. With the advent of foundation models (FMs), contemporary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tianfei Zhou , Wang Xia , Fei Zhang , Boyu Chang , Wenguan Wang , Ye Yuan , Ender Konukoglu , Daniel Cremers

Remote sensing semantic segmentation must address both what the ground objects are within an image and where they are located. Consequently, segmentation models must ensure not only the semantic correctness of large-scale patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Hao Wang , Keyan Hu , Xin Guo , Haifeng Li , Chao Tao

Collecting and annotating images with pixel-wise labels is time-consuming and laborious. In contrast, synthetic data can be freely available using a generative model (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion). In this paper, we show that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Mike Zheng Shou , Hong Zhou , Chunhua Shen

Semantic segmentation is the pixel-wise labelling of an image. Since the problem is defined at the pixel level, determining image class labels only is not acceptable, but localising them at the original image pixel resolution is necessary.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Irem Ulku , Erdem Akagunduz

Solving medical imaging data scarcity through semantic image generation has attracted growing attention in recent years. However, existing generative models mainly focus on synthesizing whole-organ or large-tissue structures, showing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Jiahao Xia , Yutao Hu , Yaolei Qi , Zhenliang Li , Wenqi Shao , Junjun He , Ying Fu , Longjiang Zhang , Guanyu Yang

Recent advances in denoising diffusion probabilistic models have shown great success in image synthesis tasks. While there are already works exploring the potential of this powerful tool in image semantic segmentation, its application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinrong Hu , Yu-Jen Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Yiyu Shi

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng