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In this paper, we introduce a novel end-end framework for multi-oriented scene text detection from an instance-aware semantic segmentation perspective. We present Fused Text Segmentation Networks, which combine multi-level features during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Yuchen Dai , Zheng Huang , Yuting Gao , Youxuan Xu , Kai Chen , Jie Guo , Weidong Qiu

Most recent work on action segmentation relies on pre-computed frame features from models trained on other tasks and typically focuses on framewise encoding and labeling without explicitly modeling action segments. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tieqiao Wang , Sinisa Todorovic

We present a framework for edge-aware optimization that is an order of magnitude faster than the state of the art while having comparable performance. Our key insight is that the optimization can be formulated by leveraging properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Akash Bapat , Jan-Michael Frahm

Scene text detection is an important step of scene text reading system. The main challenges lie on significantly varied sizes and aspect ratios, arbitrary orientations and shapes. Driven by recent progress in deep learning, impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Yongchao Xu , Yukang Wang , Wei Zhou , Yongpan Wang , Zhibo Yang , Xiang Bai

Edge points on 3D point clouds can clearly convey 3D geometry and surface characteristics, therefore, edge detection is widely used in many vision applications with high industrial and commercial demands. However, the fine-grained edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yifei Xie , Zhikun Tu , Tong Yang , Yuhe Zhang , Xinyu Zhou

The CNN-based methods have achieved impressive results in medical image segmentation, but they failed to capture the long-range dependencies due to the inherent locality of the convolution operation. Transformer-based methods are recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiaohong Huang , Zhifang Deng , Dandan Li , Xueguang Yuan

Detecting and recognizing text in natural scene images is a challenging, yet not completely solved task. In recent years several new systems that try to solve at least one of the two sub-tasks (text detection and text recognition) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Christian Bartz , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

As acquiring pixel-wise annotations of real-world images for semantic segmentation is a costly process, a model can instead be trained with more accessible synthetic data and adapted to real images without requiring their annotations. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

As one of the successful Transformer-based models in computer vision tasks, SegFormer demonstrates superior performance in semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, the high computational cost greatly challenges the deployment of SegFormer on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Haoli Bai , Hongda Mao , Dinesh Nair

Vision transformer based models bring significant improvements for image segmentation tasks. Although these architectures offer powerful capabilities irrespective of specific segmentation tasks, their use of computational resources can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Manyi Yao , Abhishek Aich , Yumin Suh , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Christian Shelton , Manmohan Chandraker

Semantic segmentation of night-time images holds significant importance in computer vision, particularly for applications like night environment perception in autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods tend to parse night-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yuwen Pan , Rui Sun , Naisong Luo , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Image-based sequence recognition has been a long-standing research topic in computer vision. In this paper, we investigate the problem of scene text recognition, which is among the most important and challenging tasks in image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Baoguang Shi , Xiang Bai , Cong Yao

Roof plane segmentation is one of the key procedures for reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) building models at levels of detail (LoD) 2 and 3 from airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds. The majority of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Siyuan You , Guozheng Xu , Pengwei Zhou , Qiwen Jin , Jian Yao , Li Li

Text segmentation is an inherent part of an OCR system irrespective of the domain of application of it. The OCR system contains a segmentation module where the text lines, words and ultimately the characters must be segmented properly for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Satadal Saha , Subhadip Basu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kr. Basu

Most existing transformer based video instance segmentation methods extract per frame features independently, hence it is challenging to solve the appearance deformation problem. In this paper, we observe the temporal information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Zhenghao Zhang , Fangtao Shao , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu

Recently end-to-end scene text spotting has become a popular research topic due to its advantages of global optimization and high maintainability in real applications. Most methods attempt to develop various region of interest (RoI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Liang Qiao , Ying Chen , Zhanzhan Cheng , Yunlu Xu , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu

Edge detection is a fundamental image analysis task that underpins numerous high-level vision applications. Recent advances in Transformer architectures have significantly improved edge quality by capturing long-range dependencies, but this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuhan Gao , Xinqing Li , Xin He , Bing Li , Xinzhong Zhu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yun Liu

The paper proposes a new text recognition network for scene-text images. Many state-of-the-art methods employ the attention mechanism either in the text encoder or decoder for the text alignment. Although the encoder-based attention yields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Usman Sajid , Michael Chow , Jin Zhang , Taejoon Kim , Guanghui Wang

Automatic image segmentation technology is critical to the visual analysis. The autoencoder architecture has satisfying performance in various image segmentation tasks. However, autoencoders based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) seem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Shiqiang Ma , Xuejian Li , Jijun Tang , Fei Guo

This paper proposes a transformer over transformer framework, called Transformer$^2$, to perform neural text segmentation. It consists of two components: bottom-level sentence encoders using pre-trained transformers, and an upper-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Kelvin Lo , Yuan Jin , Weicong Tan , Ming Liu , Lan Du , Wray Buntine