English
Related papers

Related papers: InstanSeg: an embedding-based instance segmentatio…

200 papers

Most existing methods handle cell instance segmentation problems directly without relying on additional detection boxes. These methods generally fails to separate touching cells due to the lack of global understanding of the objects. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Jingru Yi , Pengxiang Wu , Qiaoying Huang , Hui Qu , Bo Liu , Daniel J. Hoeppner , Dimitris N. Metaxas

In this paper, we present InSeGAN, an unsupervised 3D generative adversarial network (GAN) for segmenting (nearly) identical instances of rigid objects in depth images. Using an analysis-by-synthesis approach, we design a novel GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Anoop Cherian , Goncalo Dias Pais , Siddarth Jain , Tim K. Marks , Alan Sullivan

Reasoning segmentation enables open-set object segmentation via implicit text queries, therefore serving as a foundation for embodied agents that should operate autonomously in real-world environments. However, existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yiqing Shen , Mathias Unberath

We propose a novel approach for automatic extraction (instance segmentation) of fibers from low resolution 3D X-ray computed tomography scans of short glass fiber reinforced polymers. We have designed a 3D instance segmentation architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Tomasz Konopczyński , Thorben Kröger , Lei Zheng , Jürgen Hesser

Accurate semantic segmentation models typically require significant computational resources, inhibiting their use in practical applications. Recent works rely on well-crafted lightweight models to achieve fast inference. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Danna Xue , Fei Yang , Pei Wang , Luis Herranz , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , Yanning Zhang

The recently proposed segment anything model (SAM) has made a significant influence in many computer vision tasks. It is becoming a foundation step for many high-level tasks, like image segmentation, image caption, and image editing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Xu Zhao , Wenchao Ding , Yongqi An , Yinglong Du , Tao Yu , Min Li , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

We propose an approach to instance-level image segmentation that is built on top of category-level segmentation. Specifically, for each pixel in a semantic category mask, its corresponding instance bounding box is predicted using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

We propose a new and, arguably, a very simple reduction of instance segmentation to semantic segmentation. This reduction allows to train feed-forward non-recurrent deep instance segmentation systems in an end-to-end fashion using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Victor Kulikov , Victor Yurchenko , Victor Lempitsky

We share our recent findings in an attempt to train a universal segmentation network for various cell types and imaging modalities. Our method was built on the generalized U-Net architecture, which allows the evaluation of each component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Tianqi Guo , Yin Wang , Luis Solorio , Jan P. Allebach

Every year millions of people die due to disease of Cancer. Due to its invasive nature it is very complex to cure even in primary stages. Hence, only method to survive this disease completely is via forecasting by analyzing the early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Shivam Singh , Stuti Pathak

In medical image analysis, achieving fast, efficient, and accurate segmentation is essential for automated diagnosis and treatment. Although recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved segmentation accuracy, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zhi Li , Kai Zhao , Yaqi Wang , Shuai Wang

Contour-based instance segmentation methods have developed rapidly recently but feature rough and hand-crafted front-end contour initialization, which restricts the model performance, and an empirical and fixed backend predicted-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Tao Zhang , Shiqing Wei , Shunping Ji

Cell segmentation and tracking in microscopy images are of great significance to new discoveries in biology and medicine. In this study, we propose a novel approach to combine cell segmentation and cell tracking into a unified end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yuqian Chen , Yang Song , Chaoyi Zhang , Fan Zhang , Lauren O'Donnell , Wojciech Chrzanowski , Weidong Cai

Cell boundary information is crucial for analyzing cell behaviors from time-lapse microscopy videos. Existing supervised cell segmentation tools, such as ImageJ, require tuning various parameters and rely on restrictive assumptions about…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-27 Laura Baracaldo , Blythe King , Haoran Yan , Yizi Lin , Nina Miolane , Mengyang Gu

Nucleus instance segmentation in histology images is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. Current dominant algorithms rely on regression of nuclear proxy maps. Distinguishing nucleus instances from the estimated maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhongyi Shui , Yunlong Zhang , Kai Yao , Chenglu Zhu , Sunyi Zheng , Jingxiong Li , Honglin Li , Yuxuan Sun , Ruizhe Guo , Lin Yang

Nucleus instance segmentation from histopathology images suffers from the extremely laborious and expert-dependent annotation of nucleus instances. As a promising solution to this task, annotation-efficient deep learning paradigms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ming , Zihao Wu , Jie Yang , Danyi Li , Yuan Gao , Changxin Gao , Gui-Song Xia , Yuanqing Li , Li Liang , Jin-Gang Yu

We propose a 3D convolutional neural network to simultaneously segment and detect cell nuclei in confocal microscopy images. Mirroring the co-dependency of these tasks, our proposed model consists of two serial components: the first part…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-07 Sundaresh Ram , Vicky T. Nguyen , Kirsten H. Limesand , Mert R. Sabuncu

Histopathology image analysis is critical yet challenged by the demand of segmenting tissue regions and nuclei instances for tumor microenvironment and cellular morphology analysis. Existing studies focused on tissue semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qing Xu , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen

Many two-stage instance segmentation heads predict a coarse 28x28 mask per instance, which is insufficient to capture the fine-grained details of many objects. To address this issue, PointRend and RefineMask predict a 112x112 segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Cédric Picron , Tinne Tuytelaars

Increasing data set sizes of 3D microscopy imaging experiments demand for an automation of segmentation processes to be able to extract meaningful biomedical information. Due to the shortage of annotated 3D image data that can be used for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Dennis Eschweiler , Richard S. Smith , Johannes Stegmaier