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Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment the most prominent objects in images. Advanced SOD methods often utilize various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Transformers for deep feature extraction. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shixuan Gao , Pingping Zhang , Tianyu Yan , Huchuan Lu

Estimating the correspondences between pixels in sequences of images is a critical first step for a myriad of tasks including vision-aided navigation (e.g., visual odometry (VO), visual-inertial odometry (VIO), and visual simultaneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-16 E. Jared Shamwell , William D. Nothwang , Donald Perlis

Segment Anything (SAM), an advanced universal image segmentation model trained on an expansive visual dataset, has set a new benchmark in image segmentation and computer vision. However, it faced challenges when it came to distinguishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiao Feng Zhang , Tian Yi Song , Jia Wei Yao

Segmentation is vital for ophthalmology image analysis. But its various modal images hinder most of the existing segmentation algorithms applications, as they rely on training based on a large number of labels or hold weak generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Zhongxi Qiu , Yan Hu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

We solve the problem of salient object detection by investigating how to expand the role of pooling in convolutional neural networks. Based on the U-shape architecture, we first build a global guidance module (GGM) upon the bottom-up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jiang-Jiang Liu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng , Jianmin Jiang

3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is an important part of the unmanned vehicle perception module. Most methods optimize object detection and data association independently. These methods make the network structure complicated and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yueling Shen , Guangming Wang , Hesheng Wang

We tackle the problem of estimating optical flow from a monocular camera in the context of autonomous driving. We build on the observation that the scene is typically composed of a static background, as well as a relatively small number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Min Bai , Wenjie Luo , Kaustav Kundu , Raquel Urtasun

Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

Scene flow represents the motion of points in the 3D space, which is the counterpart of the optical flow that represents the motion of pixels in the 2D image. However, it is difficult to obtain the ground truth of scene flow in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Xiaoyu Tian , Ruiqi Ding , Hesheng Wang

This paper proposes a framework to guide an optical flow network with external cues to achieve superior accuracy either on known or unseen domains. Given the availability of sparse yet accurate optical flow hints from an external source,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Matteo Poggi , Filippo Aleotti , Stefano Mattoccia

Temporal coherence is a valuable source of information in the context of optical flow estimation. However, finding a suitable motion model to leverage this information is a non-trivial task. In this paper we propose an unsupervised online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Daniel Maurer , Andrés Bruhn

Estimating 3D scene flow from a sequence of monocular images has been gaining increased attention due to the simple, economical capture setup. Owing to the severe ill-posedness of the problem, the accuracy of current methods has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

In recent years, deep neural networks showed their exceeding capabilities in addressing many computer vision tasks including scene flow prediction. However, most of the advances are dependent on the availability of a vast amount of dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving light field salient object detection (LF SOD). However, most existing models tend to neglect the extraction of prompt information under this task. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Qiyao Xu , Qiming Wu , Xiaowei Li

Optical Remote Sensing Image Salient Object Detection (ORSI-SOD) remains challenging due to complex backgrounds, low contrast, irregular object shapes, and large variations in object scale. Existing discriminative methods directly regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Haojing Chen , Zhihang Liu , Yutong Li , Tao Tan , Haoyu Bian , Qiuju Ma

We present an unsupervised learning framework for simultaneously training single-view depth prediction and optical flow estimation models using unlabeled video sequences. Existing unsupervised methods often exploit brightness constancy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Yuliang Zou , Zelun Luo , Jia-Bin Huang

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to detect the most salient object in a video sequence at the pixel level. In unsupervised VOS, most state-of-the-art methods leverage motion cues obtained from optical flow maps in addition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Seunghoon Lee , Chaewon Park , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

The current state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) require extensive training on video datasets with mask annotations, limiting their effectiveness in handling challenging scenarios. However, the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zhenghao Zhang , Shengfan Zhang , Zhichao Wei , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu

Surgical instrument segmentation in laparoscopy is essential for computer-assisted surgical systems. Despite the Deep Learning progress in recent years, the dynamic setting of laparoscopic surgery still presents challenges for precise…

Capsule networks aim to parse images into a hierarchy of objects, parts and relations. While promising, they remain limited by an inability to learn effective low level part descriptions. To address this issue we propose a way to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Sara Sabour , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Soroosh Yazdani , Geoffrey E. Hinton , David J. Fleet