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Local feature matching remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Recent Area to Point Matching (A2PM) methods have improved matching accuracy. However, existing research based on this framework relies on inefficient pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiangzeng Liu , Chi Wang , Guanglu Shi , Xiaodong Zhang , Qiguang Miao , Miao Fan

Model merging aims to integrate multiple task-specific fine-tuned models derived from a shared pre-trained checkpoint into a single multi-task model without additional training. Despite extensive research, task interference remains a major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Longhua Li , Lei Qi , Qi Tian , Xin Geng

Image space feature detection is the act of selecting points or parts of an image that are easy to distinguish from the surrounding image region. By combining a repeatable point detection with a descriptor, parts of an image can be matched…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Alexander Mai , Joseph Menke , Allen Yang

Matching-based methods, especially those based on space-time memory, are significantly ahead of other solutions in semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). However, continuously growing and redundant template features lead to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zhihui Lin , Tianyu Yang , Maomao Li , Ziyu Wang , Chun Yuan , Wenhao Jiang , Wei Liu

Automated segmentation is a fundamental medical image analysis task, which enjoys significant advances due to the advent of deep learning. While foundation models have been useful in natural language processing and some vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Jichen Yang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Feature matching is an important technique to identify a single object in different images. It helps machines to construct recognition of a specific object from multiple perspectives. For years, feature matching has been commonly used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Hang Zhu , Zihao Wang

Recently, the first foundation model developed specifically for image segmentation tasks was developed, termed the "Segment Anything Model" (SAM). SAM can segment objects in input imagery based on cheap input prompts, such as one (or more)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Simiao Ren , Francesco Luzi , Saad Lahrichi , Kaleb Kassaw , Leslie M. Collins , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

In this study, we address the intricate challenge of multi-task dense prediction, encompassing tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth estimation, and surface normal estimation, particularly when dealing with partially annotated data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Meixuan Li , Tianyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Peng Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has revolutionized the way of segmentation. However, SAM's performance may decline when applied to tasks involving domains that differ from natural images. Nonetheless, by employing fine-tuning techniques, SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Lin Wang , Xiufen Ye , Liqiang Zhu , Weijie Wu , Jianguo Zhang , Huiming Xing , Chao Hu

Feature matching between image pairs is a fundamental problem in computer vision that drives many applications, such as SLAM. Recently, semi-dense matching approaches have achieved substantial performance enhancements and established a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xiaolong Wang , Lei Yu , Yingying Zhang , Jiangwei Lao , Lixiang Ru , Liheng Zhong , Jingdong Chen , Yu Zhang , Ming Yang

Feature matching is an important computer vision task that involves estimating correspondences between two images of a 3D scene, and dense methods estimate all such correspondences. The aim is to learn a robust model, i.e., a model able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Johan Edstedt , Qiyu Sun , Georg Bökman , Mårten Wadenbäck , Michael Felsberg

Similarity measures are widely used to interpret the representational geometries used by neural networks to solve tasks. Yet, because existing methods compare the extrinsic geometry of representations in state space, rather than their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 N Alex Cayco-Gajic , Arthur Pellegrino

We address the problem of finding reliable dense correspondences between a pair of images. This is a challenging task due to strong appearance differences between the corresponding scene elements and ambiguities generated by repetitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Ignacio Rocco , Mircea Cimpoi , Relja Arandjelović , Akihiko Torii , Tomas Pajdla , Josef Sivic

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), developed by Meta AI Research, represents a significant breakthrough in computer vision, offering a robust framework for image and video segmentation. This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of the…

While nowadays deep neural networks achieve impressive performances on semantic segmentation tasks, they are usually trained by optimizing pixel-wise losses such as cross-entropy. As a result, the predictions outputted by such networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yifu Chen , Arnaud Dapogny , Matthieu Cord

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a significant breakthrough into foundation models for computer vision, providing a large-scale image segmentation model. However, despite SAM's zero-shot performance, its segmentation masks lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xianjie Liu , Keren Fu , Yao Jiang , Qijun Zhao

Under the semi-supervised framework, we propose an end-to-end memory-based segmentation network (MemSeg) to detect surface defects on industrial products. Considering the small intra-class variance of products in the same production line,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Minghui Yang , Peng Wu , Jing Liu , Hui Feng

Image segmentation aims to partition an image according to the objects in the scene and is a fundamental step in analysing very high spatial-resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery. Current methods struggle to effectively consider land…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Xianwei Lv , Claudio Persello , Wangbin Li , Xiao Huang , Dongping Ming , Alfred Stein

Image classification is an essential part of computer vision which assigns a given input image to a specific category based on the similarity evaluation within given criteria. While promising classifiers can be obtained through deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

Current approaches to dichotomous image segmentation (DIS) treat image matting and object segmentation as fundamentally different tasks. As improvements in image segmentation become increasingly challenging to achieve, combining image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Maxwell Meyer , Jack Spruyt