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This paper addresses the semantic instance segmentation task in the open-set conditions, where input images can contain known and unknown object classes. The training process of existing semantic instance segmentation methods requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Trung Pham , Vijay Kumar B G , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro , Ian Reid

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a label to each pixel in the image.In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have been driving advances in multiple tasks related to cognition. Although, DCNNs have resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aditya Ganeshan

Despite great improvements in semantic segmentation, challenges persist because of the lack of local/global contexts and the relationship between them. In this paper, we propose Contextrast, a contrastive learning-based semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Changki Sung , Wanhee Kim , Jungho An , Wooju Lee , Hyungtae Lim , Hyun Myung

Conventional detectors suffer from performance degradation when dealing with long-tailed data due to a classification bias towards the majority head categories. In this paper, we contend that the learning bias originates from two factors:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Tianhao Qi , Hongtao Xie , Pandeng Li , Jiannan Ge , Yongdong Zhang

Scene understanding includes many related sub-tasks, such as scene categorization, depth estimation, object detection, etc. Each of these sub-tasks is often notoriously hard, and state-of-the-art classifiers already exist for many of them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-25 Congcong Li , Adarsh Kowdle , Ashutosh Saxena , Tsuhan Chen

Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) faces a critical challenge: incrementally learning new classes from unlabeled data streams while preserving knowledge of old classes. Existing methods struggle with catastrophic forgetting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Hao Dai , Jagmohan Chauhan

Compared with expensive pixel-wise annotations, image-level labels make it possible to learn semantic segmentation in a weakly-supervised manner. Within this pipeline, the class activation map (CAM) is obtained and further processed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Yicong Hong , Nick Barnes

Continual learning (CL) enables models to adapt to evolving data streams without catastrophic forgetting, a fundamental requirement for real-world AI systems. However, the current methods often depend on large replay buffers or heavily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Indu Solomon , Aye Phyu Phyu Aung , Uttam Kumar , Senthilnath Jayavelu

Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

High annotation costs are a major bottleneck for the training of semantic segmentation systems. Therefore, methods working with less annotation effort are of special interest. This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Olga Zatsarynna , Johann Sawatzky , Juergen Gall

Deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in learning complex patterns and concepts from training data. However, recent findings indicate that these models tend to rely heavily on simple and easily discernible features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Raha Ahmadi , Mohammad Javad Rajabi , Mohammad Khalooie , Mohammad Sabokrou

Memory decay makes it harder for the human brain to recognize visual objects and retain details. Consequently, recorded brain signals become weaker, uncertain, and contain poor visual context over time. This paper presents one of the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Thanh-Dat Truong , Pawan Sinha , Khoa Luu

Retrieving accurate semantic information in challenging high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed conditions remains an open challenge for image-based algorithms due to severe image degradations. Event cameras promise to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Zhaoning Sun , Nico Messikommer , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Increasing scene-awareness is a key challenge in video anomaly detection (VAD). In this work, we propose a hierarchical semantic contrast (HSC) method to learn a scene-aware VAD model from normal videos. We first incorporate foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Shengyang Sun , Xiaojin Gong

In medical image segmentation, heterogeneous privacy policies across institutions often make joint training on pooled datasets infeasible, motivating continual image segmentation-learning from data streams without catastrophic forgetting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jiayi Wang , Wei Dai , Haoyu Wang , Sihan Yang , Haixia Bi , Jian Sun

Spatial attention mechanism has been widely used in semantic segmentation of remote sensing images given its capability to model long-range dependencies. Many methods adopting spatial attention mechanism aggregate contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xiaowen Ma , Rui Che , Tingfeng Hong , Mengting Ma , Ziyan Zhao , Tian Feng , Wei Zhang

Deep learning based image compressed sensing (CS) has achieved great success. However, existing CS systems mainly adopt a fixed measurement matrix to images, ignoring the fact the optimal measurement numbers and bases are different for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Bowen Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

The semantic segmentation (SS) task aims to create a dense classification by labeling at the pixel level each object present on images. Convolutional neural network (CNN) approaches have been widely used, and exhibited the best results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Darwin Saire , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Semantic segmentation is an important task for scene understanding in self-driving cars and robotics, which aims to assign dense labels for all pixels in the image. Existing work typically improves semantic segmentation performance by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Li Wang , Dong Li , Han Liu , Jinzhang Peng , Lu Tian , Yi Shan

Catastrophic forgetting - the tendency of neural networks to forget previously learned data when learning new information - remains a central challenge in continual learning. In this work, we adopt a behavioral approach, observing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Guy Hacohen , Tinne Tuytelaars