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Segmenting foreground object from a video is a challenging task because of the large deformations of the objects, occlusions, and background clutter. In this paper, we propose a frame-by-frame but computationally efficient approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Aditya Vora , Shanmuganathan Raman

Humans are very good at directing their visual attention toward relevant areas when they search for different types of objects. For instance, when we search for cars, we will look at the streets, not at the top of buildings. The motivation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Hughes Perreault , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier , Maguelonne Héritier

Class-agnostic image segmentation is a crucial component in automating image editing workflows, especially in contexts where object selection traditionally involves interactive tools. Existing methods in the literature often adhere to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Sebastian Dille , Ari Blondal , Sylvain Paris , Yağız Aksoy

This paper proposes a knowledge distillation method for foreground object search (FoS). Given a background and a rectangle specifying the foreground location and scale, FoS retrieves compatible foregrounds in a certain category for later…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Boren Li , Po-Yu Zhuang , Jian Gu , Mingyang Li , Ping Tan

Video segmentation consists of a frame-by-frame selection process of meaningful areas related to foreground moving objects. Some applications include traffic monitoring, human tracking, action recognition, efficient video surveillance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Daniel F. S. Santos , Rafael G. Pires , Danilo Colombo , João P. Papa

Recent advent of vision-based foundation models has enabled efficient and high-quality object detection at ease. Despite the success of previous studies, object detection models face limitations on capturing small components from holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jinwoo Ahn , Hyeokjoon Kwon , Hwiyeon Yoo

Face segmentation is the task of densely labeling pixels on the face according to their semantics. While current methods place an emphasis on developing sophisticated architectures, use conditional random fields for smoothness, or rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Iacopo Masi , Joe Mathai , Wael AbdAlmageed

Recent Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate promising capabilities in unifying visual understanding and generative modeling, enabling both accurate content understanding and flexible editing. However, current approaches treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Fan Yang , Yousong Zhu , Xin Li , Yufei Zhan , Hongyin Zhao , Shurong Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Partially-supervised instance segmentation is a task which requests segmenting objects from novel unseen categories via learning on limited seen categories with annotated masks thus eliminating demands of heavy annotation burden. The key to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xuehui Wang , Kai Zhao , Ruixin Zhang , Shouhong Ding , Yan Wang , Wei Shen

Foreground segmentation algorithms aim segmenting moving objects from the background in a robust way under various challenging scenarios. Encoder-decoder type deep neural networks that are used in this domain recently perform impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Long Ang Lim , Hacer Yalim Keles

Deep learning has enabled remarkable advances in scene understanding, particularly in semantic segmentation tasks. Yet, current state of the art approaches are limited to a closed set of classes, and fail when facing novel elements, also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Nicolas Marchal , Charlotte Moraldo , Roland Siegwart , Hermann Blum , Cesar Cadena , Abel Gawel

This work presents a deep object co-segmentation (DOCS) approach for segmenting common objects of the same class within a pair of images. This means that the method learns to ignore common, or uncommon, background stuff and focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Weihao Li , Omid Hosseini Jafari , Carsten Rother

Accurate and fast extraction of foreground object is a key prerequisite for a wide range of computer vision applications such as object tracking and recognition. Thus, enormous background subtraction methods for foreground object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Dongdong Zeng , Ming Zhu , Arjan Kuijper

High-precision scene parsing tasks, including image matting and dichotomous segmentation, aim to accurately predict masks with extremely fine details (such as hair). Most existing methods focus on salient, single foreground objects. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Haipeng Zhou , Zhaohu Xing , Hongqiu Wang , Jun Ma , Ping Li , Lei Zhu

Semantic segmentation is one of the core tasks in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to accurately classify each pixel in an image. The traditional Unet model achieves efficient feature extraction and fusion through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xuan Li , Quanchao Lu , Yankaiqi Li , Muqing Li , Yijiashun Qi

As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

While supervised object detection and segmentation methods achieve impressive accuracy, they generalize poorly to images whose appearance significantly differs from the data they have been trained on. To address this when annotating data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Isinsu Katircioglu , Helge Rhodin , Victor Constantin , Jörg Spörri , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

This paper presents a novel framework in which video/image segmentation and localization are cast into a single optimization problem that integrates information from low level appearance cues with that of high level localization cues in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Abhishek Sharma

This paper investigates the principles of embedding learning to tackle the challenging semi-supervised video object segmentation. Unlike previous practices that focus on exploring the embedding learning of foreground object (s), we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Zongxin Yang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier