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Accurate segmentation of tubular and curvilinear structures, such as blood vessels, neurons, and road networks, is crucial in various applications. A key challenge is ensuring topological correctness while maintaining computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Siyi Wu , Leyi Zhao , Haotian Ma , Xinyuan Song

Persistent topological properties of an image serve as an additional descriptor providing an insight that might not be discovered by traditional neural networks. The existing research in this area focuses primarily on efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ekaterina Khramtsova , Guido Zuccon , Xi Wang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Image segmentation is an important and widely performed task in computer vision. Accomplishing effective image segmentation in diverse settings often requires custom model architectures and loss functions. A set of models that specialize in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Devansh Arora , Nitin Kumar , Sukrit Gupta

In the segmentation of fine-scale structures from natural and biomedical images, per-pixel accuracy is not the only metric of concern. Topological correctness, such as vessel connectivity and membrane closure, is crucial for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Xiaoling Hu , Yusu Wang , Li Fuxin , Dimitris Samaras , Chao Chen

Topological alignments and snakes are used in image processing, particularly in locating object boundaries. Both of them have their own advantages and limitations. To improve the overall image boundary detection system, we focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-06-03 Ashraf A. Aly , Safaai Bin Deris , Nazar Zaki

Topological structures in image data, such as connected components and loops, play a crucial role in understanding image content (e.g., biomedical objects). % Despite remarkable successes of numerous image processing methods that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pengfei Gu , Hongxiao Wang , Yejia Zhang , Huimin Li , Chaoli Wang , Danny Chen

Different cell types aggregate and sort into hierarchical architectures during the formation of animal tissues. The resulting spatial organization depends (in part) on the strength of adhesion of one cell type to itself relative to other…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-02 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Alexandria Volkening , Björn Sandstede , Ian Y. Wong

Segment matching is an important intermediate task in computer vision that establishes correspondences between semantically or geometrically coherent regions across images. Unlike keypoint matching, which focuses on localized features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Rohit Jayanti , Swayam Agrawal , Vansh Garg , Siddharth Tourani , Muhammad Haris Khan , Sourav Garg , Madhava Krishna

We propose a novel approach for preserving topological structures of the input space in latent representations of autoencoders. Using persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, we calculate topological signatures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Michael Moor , Max Horn , Bastian Rieck , Karsten Borgwardt

Geometric alignment appears in a variety of applications, ranging from domain adaptation, optimal transport, and normalizing flows in machine learning; optical flow and learned augmentation in computer vision and deformable registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Steffen Czolbe , Aasa Feragen , Oswin Krause

In this work, we propose an efficient algorithm for the calculation of the Betti matching, which can be used as a loss function to train topology aware segmentation networks. Betti matching loss builds on techniques from topological data…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Nico Stucki , Vincent Bürgin , Johannes C. Paetzold , Ulrich Bauer

In many scenarios, especially biomedical applications, the correct delineation of complex fine-scaled structures such as neurons, tissues, and vessels is critical for downstream analysis. Despite the strong predictive power of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xiaoling Hu

We present a novel discrete optimization-based approach to generate downsampled versions of binary images that are guaranteed to have the same topology as the original, measured by the zeroth and first Betti numbers of the black regions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Chia-Chia Chen , Chi-Han Peng

Reconstructing 3D objects from 2D images is both challenging for our brains and machine learning algorithms. To support this spatial reasoning task, contextual information about the overall shape of an object is critical. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Dominik J. E. Waibel , Scott Atwell , Matthias Meier , Carsten Marr , Bastian Rieck

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising branch in modern applied mathematics. It extracts topological structures as features of a given space and uses these features to analyze digital data. Persistent homology, one of the central tools…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Chuan-Shen Hu

Image segmentation plays a central role in computer vision. However, widely used evaluation metrics, whether pixel-wise, region-based, or boundary-focused, often struggle to capture the structural and topological coherence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Serena Grazia De Benedictis , Amedeo Altavilla , Nicoletta Del Buono

In this paper, we introduce a novel parametric method for segmentation of three-dimensional images. We consider a piecewise constant version of the Mumford-Shah and the Chan-Vese functionals and perform a region-based segmentation of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Heike Benninghoff , Harald Garcke

Background:Accurate tooth segmentation from cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is crucial for digital dentistry but remains challenging in cases of interdental adhesions, which cause severe anatomical shape distortion. Methods: To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zongrui Ji , Zhiming Cui , Na Li , Qianhan Zheng , Miaojing Shi , Ke Deng , Jingyang Zhang , Chaoyuan Li , Xuepeng Chen , Yi Dong , Lei Ma

Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang