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Face parsing aims to segment facial images into key components such as eyes, lips, and eyebrows. While existing methods rely on dense pixel-level annotations, such annotations are expensive and labor-intensive to obtain. To reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaoqin Wang , Xianxu Hou , Meidan Ding , Junliang Chen , Kaijun Deng , Jinheng Xie , Linlin Shen

Face clustering is a useful tool for applications like automatic face annotation and retrieval. The main challenge is that it is difficult to cluster images from the same identity with different face poses, occlusions, and image quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jinxing Ye , Xioajiang Peng , Baigui Sun , Kai Wang , Xiuyu Sun , Hao Li , Hanqing Wu

Current semantic segmentation models have achieved great success under the independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) condition. However, in real-world applications, test data might come from a different domain than training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jian Ding , Nan Xue , Gui-Song Xia , Bernt Schiele , Dengxin Dai

Semantic segmentation involves assigning a specific category to each pixel in an image. While Vision Transformer-based models have made significant progress, current semantic segmentation methods often struggle with precise predictions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Guoan Xu , Wenfeng Huang , Tao Wu , Ligeng Chen , Wenjing Jia , Guangwei Gao , Xiatian Zhu , Stuart Perry

Self-attention is of vital importance in semantic segmentation as it enables modeling of long-range context, which translates into improved performance. We argue that it is equally important to model short-range context, especially to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Recent advancements in multimodal large models have significantly bridged the representation gap between diverse modalities, catalyzing the evolution of video multimodal interpretation, which enhances users' understanding of video content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xu Zhang , Jin Yuan , BinHong Yang , Xuan Liu , Qianjun Zhang , Yuyi Wang , Zhiyong Li , Hanwang Zhang

Modern image classifiers perform well on populated classes, while degrading considerably on tail classes with only a few instances. Humans, by contrast, effortlessly handle the long-tailed recognition challenge, since they can learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yingjun Du , Jiayi Shen , Xiantong Zhen , Cees G. M. Snoek

In this work, we present SeqFormer for video instance segmentation. SeqFormer follows the principle of vision transformer that models instance relationships among video frames. Nevertheless, we observe that a stand-alone instance query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Junfeng Wu , Yi Jiang , Song Bai , Wenqing Zhang , Xiang Bai

Face attribute evaluation plays an important role in video surveillance and face analysis. Although methods based on convolution neural networks have made great progress, they inevitably only deal with one local neighborhood with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Decheng Liu , Weijie He , Chunlei Peng , Nannan Wang , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao

Image segmentation is about grouping pixels with different semantics, e.g., category or instance membership, where each choice of semantics defines a task. While only the semantics of each task differ, current research focuses on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Ishan Misra , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov , Rohit Girdhar

State-of-the-art methods of attribute detection from faces almost always assume the presence of a full, unoccluded face. Hence, their performance degrades for partially visible and occluded faces. In this paper, we introduce SPLITFACE, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Upal Mahbub , Sayantan Sarkar , Rama Chellappa

Face parsing is an important problem in computer vision that finds numerous applications including recognition and editing. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to image parsing and segmentation with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Sifei Liu , Jianping Shi , Ji Liang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Convolutional neural networks have achieved great improvement on face recognition in recent years because of its extraordinary ability in learning discriminative features of people with different identities. To train such a well-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Xiao Zhang , Zhiyuan Fang , Yandong Wen , Zhifeng Li , Yu Qiao

Two-stage and query-based instance segmentation methods have achieved remarkable results. However, their segmented masks are still very coarse. In this paper, we present Mask Transfiner for high-quality and efficient instance segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Xia Li , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

Modern approaches for semantic segmention usually pay too much attention to the accuracy of the model, and therefore it is strongly recommended to introduce cumbersome backbones, which brings heavy computation burden and memory footprint.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Ling Luo , Dingyu Xue , Xinglong Feng , Yichun Yu , Peng Wang

Scene text segmentation aims at cropping texts from scene images, which is usually used to help generative models edit or remove texts. The existing text segmentation methods tend to involve various text-related supervisions for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Haiyang Yu , Teng Fu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Segments that span contiguous parts of inputs, such as phonemes in speech, named entities in sentences, actions in videos, occur frequently in sequence prediction problems. Segmental models, a class of models that explicitly hypothesizes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Hao Tang

Subtle hand differences make sign language recognition challenging, yet many existing methods rely on encoders pretrained on generic action datasets that poorly capture such fine-grained cues. We propose a self-supervised pretraining method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kunyuan Xie , Zhixi Cai , Kalin Stefanov

Most existing object instance detection and segmentation models only work well on fairly balanced benchmarks where per-category training sample numbers are comparable, such as COCO. They tend to suffer performance drop on realistic datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Tao Wang , Yu Li , Bingyi Kang , Junnan Li , Junhao Liew , Sheng Tang , Steven Hoi , Jiashi Feng

We present SegFormer, a simple, efficient yet powerful semantic segmentation framework which unifies Transformers with lightweight multilayer perception (MLP) decoders. SegFormer has two appealing features: 1) SegFormer comprises a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Enze Xie , Wenhai Wang , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar , Jose M. Alvarez , Ping Luo