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Camouflaged objects are typically assimilated into their backgrounds and exhibit fuzzy boundaries. The complex environmental conditions and the high intrinsic similarity between camouflaged targets and their surroundings pose significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Tianyou Chen , Jin Xiao , Xiaoguang Hu , Guofeng Zhang , Shaojie Wang

Ultrasonic testing is a common Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) method used in aerospace manufacturing. However, the complexity and size of the ultrasonic scans make it challenging to identify defects through visual inspection or machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Ashiqur Rahman , Venkata Devesh Reddy Seethi , Austin Yunker , Zachary Kral , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Hamed Alhoori

Self-supervised learning methods have witnessed a recent surge of interest after proving successful in multiple application fields. In this work, we leverage these techniques, and we propose 3D versions for five different self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Aiham Taleb , Winfried Loetzsch , Noel Danz , Julius Severin , Thomas Gaertner , Benjamin Bergner , Christoph Lippert

In the realm of industrial quality inspection, defect detection stands as a critical component, particularly in high-precision, safety-critical sectors such as automotive components aerospace, and medical devices. Traditional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Shuai Li , Shihan Chen , Wanru Geng , Zhaohua Xu , Xiaolu Liu , Can Dong , Zhen Tian , Changlin Chen

Ultrasound imaging is challenging to interpret due to non-uniform intensities, low contrast, and inherent artifacts, necessitating extensive training for non-specialists. Advanced representation with clear tissue structure separation could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Oleksandra Tmenova , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Nassir Navab

With continuous progression of Moore's Law, integrated circuit (IC) device complexity is also increasing. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image based extensive defect inspection and accurate metrology extraction are two main challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Vic De Ridder , Bappaditya Dey , Sandip Halder , Bartel Van Waeyenberge

Recently, building on the foundation of neural radiance field, various techniques have emerged to learn unsigned distance fields (UDF) to reconstruct 3D non-watertight models from multi-view images. Yet, a central challenge in UDF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Junkai Deng , Fei Hou , Xuhui Chen , Wencheng Wang , Ying He

Ultrasound examination for detecting fractures is ideally suited for Emergency Departments (ED) as it is relatively fast, safe (from ionizing radiation), has dynamic imaging capability and is easily portable. High interobserver variability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Arpan Tripathi , Abhilash Rakkunedeth , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker , Jack Zhang , Naveenjyote Boora , Jacob Jaremko

Medical instrument segmentation in 3D ultrasound is essential for image-guided intervention. However, to train a successful deep neural network for instrument segmentation, a large number of labeled images are required, which is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Hongxu Yang , Caifeng Shan , R. Arthur Bouwman , Lukas R. C. Dekker , Alexander F. Kolen , Peter H. N. de With

Volumetric lesion segmentation via medical imaging is a powerful means to precisely assess multiple time-point lesion/tumor changes. Because manual 3D segmentation is prohibitively time consuming and requires radiological experience,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Jinzheng Cai , Youbao Tang , Le Lu , Adam P. Harrison , Ke Yan , Jing Xiao , Lin Yang , Ronald M. Summers

Semantic segmentation of indoor point clouds has found various applications in the creation of digital twins for robotics, navigation and building information modeling (BIM). However, most existing datasets of labeled indoor point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Maxime Mérizette , Nicolas Audebert , Pierre Kervella , Jérôme Verdun

We propose a novel fast and robust 3D point clouds segmentation framework via coupled feature selection, named 3DCFS, that jointly performs semantic and instance segmentation. Inspired by the human scene perception process, we design a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Liang Du , Jingang Tan , Xiangyang Xue , Lili Chen , Hongkai Wen , Jianfeng Feng , Jiamao Li , Xiaolin Zhang

Ultrasound imaging plays a critical role in the early detection of breast cancer. Accurate identification and segmentation of lesions are essential steps in clinical practice, requiring methods to assist physicians in lesion segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xin Yue , Xiaoling Liu , Qing Zhao , Jianqiang Li , Changwei Song , Suqin Liu , Zhikai Yang , Guanghui Fu

Conventional 3D medical image segmentation methods typically require learning heavy 3D networks (e.g., 3D-UNet), as well as large amounts of in-domain data with accurate pixel/voxel-level labels to avoid overfitting. These solutions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Meng Zheng , Benjamin Planche , Zhongpai Gao , Terrence Chen , Richard J. Radke , Ziyan Wu

Aiming at inferring 3D shapes from 2D images, 3D shape reconstruction has drawn huge attention from researchers in computer vision and deep learning communities. However, it is not practical to assume that 2D input images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Yi-Lun Liao , Yao-Cheng Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Deep learning-based 3D medical image segmentation methods relies on large-scale labeled datasets, yet acquiring such data is difficult due to privacy constraints and the high cost of expert annotation. Formula-Driven Supervised Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yukinori Yamamoto , Kazuya Nishimura , Tsukasa Fukusato , Hirokazu Nosato , Tetsuya Ogata , Hirokatsu Kataoka

We propose a novel learning-based approach for robust 3D shape matching. Our method builds upon deep functional maps and can be trained in a fully unsupervised manner. Previous deep functional map methods mainly focus on predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Paul Roetzer , Florian Bernard

Medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced by deep learning (DL) techniques, though the data scarcity inherent in medical applications poses a great challenge to DL-based segmentation methods. Self-supervised learning offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Binyan Hu , A. K. Qin

Existing LiDAR-based 3D object detectors typically rely on manually annotated labels for training to achieve good performance. However, obtaining high-quality 3D labels is time-consuming and labor-intensive. To address this issue, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

Computed Tomography (CT) plays an important role in monitoring radiation-induced Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF), where accurate segmentation of the PF lesions is highly desired for diagnosis and treatment follow-up. However, the task is challenged…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Guotai Wang , Shuwei Zhai , Giovanni Lasio , Baoshe Zhang , Byong Yi , Shifeng Chen , Thomas J. Macvittie , Dimitris Metaxas , Jinghao Zhou , Shaoting Zhang