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Remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for environmental monitoring, disaster assessment, and resource management, but its performance largely depends on the quality of the dataset. Although several high-quality datasets are broadly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jianhao Yang , Wenshuo Yu , Yuanchao Lv , Jiance Sun , Bokang Sun , Mingyang Liu

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

This work studies the semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR data in dynamic scenes for autonomous driving applications. A system of semantic segmentation using 3D LiDAR data, including range image segmentation, sample generation, inter-frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Jilin Mei , Biao Gao , Donghao Xu , Wen Yao , Xijun Zhao , Huijing Zhao

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance and brought a range of unexplored capabilities to natural image segmentation tasks. However, as a very important branch of image segmentation, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Semantic segmentation is essential for automating remote sensing analysis in fields like ecology. However, fine-grained analysis of complex aerial or underwater imagery remains an open challenge, even for state-of-the-art models. Progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Cesar Borja , Carlos Plou , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Ana C. Murillo

Few-shot video object segmentation aims to reduce annotation costs; however, existing methods still require abundant dense frame annotations for training, which are scarce in the medical domain. We investigate an extremely low-data regime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zixuan Zheng , Yilei Shi , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Active learning improves annotation efficiency by selecting the most informative samples for annotation and model training. While most prior work has focused on selecting informative images for classification tasks, we investigate the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingna Qiu , Frauke Wilm , Mathias Öttl , Jonas Utz , Maja Schlereth , Moritz Schillinger , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger

This paper proposes a new active learning method for semantic segmentation. The core of our method lies in a new annotation query design. It samples informative local image regions (e.g., superpixels), and for each of such regions, asks an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sehyun Hwang , Sohyun Lee , Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Jungseul Ok , Suha Kwak

Large-scale annotation of image segmentation datasets is often prohibitively expensive, as it usually requires a huge number of worker hours to obtain high-quality results. Abundant and reliable data has been, however, crucial for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Philipe A. Dias , Zhou Shen , Amy Tabb , Henry Medeiros

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task as it only takes image-level information as supervision for training but produces pixel-level predictions for testing. To address such a challenging task, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Mingjie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

Manual annotation of medical images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, posing a significant bottleneck in the development and deployment of robust medical imaging AI systems. This paper introduces a novel hands-free Human-AI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yizhe Zhang

Automated object detection has become increasingly valuable across diverse applications, yet efficient, high-quality annotation remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present the development and evaluation of a platform designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sönke Tenckhoff , Mario Koddenbrock , Erik Rodner

Auto-annotation by ensemble of models is an efficient method of learning on unlabeled data. Wrong or inaccurate annotations generated by the ensemble may lead to performance degradation of the trained model. To deal with this problem we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Dror Simon , Miriam Farber , Roman Goldenberg

Assigning a label to each pixel in an image, namely semantic segmentation, has been an important task in computer vision, and has applications in autonomous driving, robotic navigation, localization, and scene understanding. Fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Sercan Türkmen , Janne Heikkilä

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) family has become a widely adopted vision foundation model, but its ability to control segmentation granularity remains limited. Users often need to refine results manually - by adding more prompts or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junwei Yu , Trevor Darrell , XuDong Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model for image segmentation, showing robust zero-shot generalization through prompt engineering. However, relying on manual prompts is impractical for real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yi Chen , Mu-Young Son , Chuanbo Hua , Joo-Young Kim

Temporal action detection (TAD) is an important yet challenging task in video analysis. Most existing works draw inspiration from image object detection and tend to reformulate it as a proposal generation - classification problem. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Chen Zhao , Merey Ramazanova , Mengmeng Xu , Bernard Ghanem

Surgical scenes convey crucial information about the quality of surgery. Pixel-wise localization of tools and anatomical structures is the first task towards deeper surgical analysis for microscopic or endoscopic surgical views. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Çağhan Köksal , Ghazal Ghazaei , Nassir Navab

Recently, progress in acquisition equipment such as LiDAR sensors has enabled sensing increasingly spacious outdoor 3D environments. Making sense of such 3D acquisitions requires fine-grained scene understanding, such as constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Cedric Perauer , Laurenz Adrian Heidrich , Haifan Zhang , Matthias Nießner , Anastasiia Kornilova , Alexey Artemov

Supervised object detection has been proven to be successful in many benchmark datasets achieving human-level performances. However, acquiring a large amount of labeled image samples for supervised detection training is tedious,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Bishwo Adhikari , Esa Rahtu , Heikki Huttunen