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Recent segmentation methods, which adopt large-scale data training and transformer architecture, aim to create one foundation model that can perform multiple tasks. However, most of these methods rely on heavy encoder and decoder…

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In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limits the quantity of labels available for training in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Tarun Kalluri , Girish Varma , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

Domain adaptation for semantic segmentation aims to improve the model performance in the presence of a distribution shift between source and target domain. Leveraging the supervision from auxiliary tasks~(such as depth estimation) has the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Qin Wang , Dengxin Dai , Lukas Hoyer , Luc Van Gool , Olga Fink

Multi-task learning (MTL) enables a joint model to capture commonalities across multiple tasks, reducing computation costs and improving data efficiency. However, a major challenge in MTL optimization is task conflicts, where the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Hao Ban , Gokul Ram Subramani , Kaiyi Ji

This paper tackles a novel yet challenging problem: how to transfer knowledge from the emerging Segment Anything Model (SAM) -- which reveals impressive zero-shot instance segmentation capacity -- to learn a compact panoramic semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weiming Zhang , Yexin Liu , Xu Zheng , Lin Wang

The significant morphological and distributional variability among subcellular components poses a long-standing challenge for learning-based organelle segmentation models, significantly increasing the risk of biased feature learning.…

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Amodal segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict the complete geometric shape of objects, including their occluded regions. Although existing methods primarily focus on amodal segmentation within the training domain, these…

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Semi-supervised semantic segmentation requires the model to effectively propagate the label information from limited annotated images to unlabeled ones. A challenge for such a per-pixel prediction task is the large intra-class variation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hai-Ming Xu , Lingqiao Liu , Qiuchen Bian , Zhen Yang

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the medical imaging pipeline as it influences a number of image-based decisions. To be effective, fully supervised segmentation approaches require large amounts of manually annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tyler Ward , Aaron Moseley , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Domain adaptation approaches have shown promising results in reducing the marginal distribution difference among visual domains. They allow to train reliable models that work over datasets of different nature (photos, paintings etc), but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Silvia Bucci , Antonio D'Innocente , Tatiana Tommasi

Learning segmentation from synthetic data and adapting to real data can significantly relieve human efforts in labelling pixel-level masks. A key challenge of this task is how to alleviate the data distribution discrepancy between the…

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Current AI-assisted skin image diagnosis has achieved dermatologist-level performance in classifying skin cancer, driven by rapid advancements in deep learning architectures. However, unlike traditional vision tasks, skin images in general…

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In this paper we consider a problem known as multi-task learning, consisting of fitting a set of classifier or regression functions intended for solving different tasks. In our novel formulation, we couple the parameters of these functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Juan Cervino , Juan Andres Bazerque , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Alejandro Ribeiro

Unsupervised multimodal change detection is pivotal for time-sensitive tasks and comprehensive multi-temporal Earth monitoring. In this study, we explore unsupervised multimodal change detection between two key remote sensing data sources:…

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Recent progress of self-supervised visual representation learning has achieved remarkable success on many challenging computer vision benchmarks. However, whether these techniques can be used for domain adaptation has not been explored. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Antonio M. Lopez

A key feature of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is its ability to manipulate how the intrinsic tissue parameters of the anatomy ultimately contribute to the contrast properties of the final, acquired image. This flexibility, however, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Dzung L. Pham , Snehashis Roy

With the progress of Mars exploration, numerous Mars image data are collected and need to be analyzed. However, due to the imbalance and distortion of Martian data, the performance of existing computer vision models is unsatisfactory. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Wenjing Wang , Lilang Lin , Zejia Fan , Jiaying Liu

A key requirement for the success of supervised deep learning is a large labeled dataset - a condition that is difficult to meet in medical image analysis. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can help in this regard by providing a strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

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