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Preys in the wild evolve to be camouflaged to avoid being recognized by predators. In this way, camouflage acts as a key defence mechanism across species that is critical to survival. To detect and segment the whole scope of a camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Aixuan Li , Nick Barnes , Deng-Ping Fan

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to identify objects that blend seamlessly into their surroundings. The inherent visual complexity of camouflaged objects, including their low contrast with the background, diverse textures, and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chenxi Zhang , Qing Zhang , Jiayun Wu , Youwei Pang

Recent camouflaged object detection (COD) attempts to segment objects visually blended into their surroundings, which is extremely complex and difficult in real-world scenarios. Apart from the high intrinsic similarity between camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

This paper presents a co-clustering technique that, given a collection of images and their hierarchies, clusters nodes from these hierarchies to obtain a coherent multiresolution representation of the image collection. We formalize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-19 David Varas , Mónica Alfaro , Ferran Marques

This paper focuses on camouflaged object detection (COD), which is a task to detect objects hidden in the background. Most of the current COD models aim to highlight the target object directly while outputting ambiguous camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Nobukatsu Kajiura , Hong Liu , Shin'ichi Satoh

Watershed segmentation method has been used in various applications. But many a times, due to its over-segmentation attributes, it underperforms in several tasks where noise is a dominant source. In this study, Optical Coherence Tomography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Maryam Viqar , Violeta Madjarova , Elena Stoykova

Object segmentation is a key component in the visual system of a robot that performs tasks like grasping and object manipulation, especially in presence of occlusions. Like many other computer vision tasks, the adoption of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Federico Ceola , Elisa Maiettini , Giulia Pasquale , Lorenzo Rosasco , Lorenzo Natale

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to discover groupings within and across images that capture object and view-invariance of a category without external supervision. Grouping naturally has levels of granularity, creating ambiguity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tsung-Wei Ke , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Yunhui Guo , Xudong Wang , Stella X. Yu

Image co-segmentation is important for its advantage of alleviating the ill-pose nature of image segmentation through exploring the correlation between related images. Many automatic image co-segmentation algorithms have been developed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xiabi Liu , Xin Duan

Self-supervised Object Segmentation (SOS) aims to segment objects without any annotations. Under conditions of multi-camera inputs, the structural, textural and geometrical consistency among each view can be leveraged to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaoyun Zheng , Liwei Liao , Jianbo Jiao , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

Understanding the context of complex and cluttered scenes is a challenging problem for semantic segmentation. However, it is difficult to model the context without prior and additional supervision because the scene's factors, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Hiroaki Aizawa , Yukihiro Domae , Kunihito Kato

Modern video object segmentation (VOS) algorithms have achieved remarkably high performance in a sequential processing order, while most of currently prevailing pipelines still show some obvious inadequacy like accumulative error, unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yuxi Li , Ning Xu , Wenjie Yang , John See , Weiyao Lin

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

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

Spotting camouflaged objects that are visually assimilated into the background is tricky for both object detection algorithms and humans who are usually confused or cheated by the perfectly intrinsic similarities between the foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Xiaobin Hu , Shuo Wang , Xuebin Qin , Hang Dai , Wenqi Ren , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Ling Shao

Most camera lens systems are designed in isolation, separately from downstream computer vision methods. Recently, joint optimization approaches that design lenses alongside other components of the image acquisition and processing pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Geoffroi Côté , Fahim Mannan , Simon Thibault , Jean-François Lalonde , Felix Heide

Recently, the emergence of the large-scale vision-language model (VLM), such as CLIP, has opened the way towards open-world object perception. Many works have explored the utilization of pre-trained VLM for the challenging open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Jiaming Zuo , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Towards holistic understanding of 3D scenes, a general 3D segmentation method is needed that can segment diverse objects without restrictions on object quantity or categories, while also reflecting the inherent hierarchical structure. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Haiyang Ying , Yixuan Yin , Jinzhi Zhang , Fan Wang , Tao Yu , Ruqi Huang , Lu Fang

We present a simple yet effective method for skeleton-free motion retargeting. Previous methods transfer motion between high-resolution meshes, failing to preserve the inherent local-part motions in the mesh. Addressing this issue, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haoyu Wang , Shaoli Huang , Fang Zhao , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) stands as a significant challenge in computer vision, dedicated to identifying and segmenting objects visually highly integrated with their backgrounds. Current mainstream methods have made progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kuan Wang , Yanjun Qin , Mengge Lu , Liejun Wang , Xiaoming Tao