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Estimates of image gradients play a ubiquitous role in image segmentation and classification problems since gradients directly relate to the boundaries or the edges of a scene. This paper proposes an unified approach to gradient estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Anish Acharya , Uddipan Mukherjee , Charless Fowlkes

This dissertation addresses visual scene understanding and enhances segmentation performance and generalization, training efficiency of networks, and holistic understanding. First, we investigate semantic segmentation in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Panagiotis Meletis

Computed Tomography (CT) based precise prostate segmentation for treatment planning is challenging due to (1) the unclear boundary of the prostate derived from CT's poor soft tissue contrast and (2) the limitation of convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Chengyin Li , Yao Qiang , Rafi Ibn Sultan , Hassan Bagher-Ebadian , Prashant Khanduri , Indrin J. Chetty , Dongxiao Zhu

The open-vocabulary image segmentation task involves partitioning images into semantically meaningful segments and classifying them with flexible text-defined categories. The recent vision-based foundation models such as the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoqi Wang , Wenbin He , Xiwei Xuan , Clint Sebastian , Jorge Piazentin Ono , Xin Li , Sima Behpour , Thang Doan , Liang Gou , Han Wei Shen , Liu Ren

Conventional few-shot medical image segmentation (FSMIS) approaches face performance bottlenecks that hinder broader clinical applicability. Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits strong category-agnostic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuntian Bo , Yazhou Zhu , Piotr Koniusz , Haofeng Zhang

Despite increasing efforts on universal representations for visual recognition, few have addressed object detection. In this paper, we develop an effective and efficient universal object detection system that is capable of working on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Xudong Wang , Zhaowei Cai , Dashan Gao , Nuno Vasconcelos

Sparse decomposition has been widely used for different applications, such as source separation, image classification and image denoising. This paper presents a new algorithm for segmentation of an image into background and foreground text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Shervin Minaee , Yao Wang

Image segmentation is a central topic in image processing and computer vision and a key issue in many applications, e.g., in medical imaging, microscopy, document analysis and remote sensing. According to the human perception, image…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Laura Antonelli , Valentina De Simone , Daniela di Serafino

Context can strongly affect object representations, sometimes leading to undesired biases, particularly when objects appear in out-of-distribution backgrounds at inference. At the same time, many object-centric tasks require to leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ananthu Aniraj , Cassio F. Dantas , Dino Ienco , Diego Marcos

We introduce the first unified framework for *Fine-Grained Domain-Generalized Generalized Category Discovery* (FG-DG-GCD), bringing open-world recognition closer to real-world deployment under domain shift. Unlike conventional GCD, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vaibhav Rathore , Divyam Gupta , Moloud Abdar , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

High-resolution image segmentation remains challenging and error-prone due to the enormous size of intermediate feature maps. Conventional methods avoid this problem by using patch based approaches where each patch is segmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fahim Faisal Niloy , M. Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali , AKM Mahbubur Rahman

Obtained by moving object detection, the foreground mask result is unshaped and can not be directly used in most subsequent processes. In this paper, we focus on this problem and address it by constructing an optical flow based moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Zheng Zhu , Jiagang Zhu

Unsupervised multi-object segmentation has shown impressive results on images by utilizing powerful semantics learned from self-supervised pretraining. An additional modality such as depth or motion is often used to facilitate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Görkay Aydemir , Weidi Xie , Fatma Güney

Object co-segmentation has drawn significant attention in recent years, thanks to its clarity on the expected foreground, the shared object in a group of images. Saliency fusion has been one of the promising ways to carry it out. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Harshit Singh Chhabra , Koteswar Rao Jerripothula

Image semantic segmentation is more and more being of interest for computer vision and machine learning researchers. Many applications on the rise need accurate and efficient segmentation mechanisms: autonomous driving, indoor navigation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Alberto Garcia-Garcia , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Sergiu Oprea , Victor Villena-Martinez , Jose Garcia-Rodriguez

Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Haobo Yuan , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Object segmentation and object tracking are fundamental research area in the computer vision community. These two topics are diffcult to handle some common challenges, such as occlusion, deformation, motion blur, and scale variation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Rui Yao , Guosheng Lin , Shixiong Xia , Jiaqi Zhao , Yong Zhou

We present Deep Region Competition (DRC), an algorithm designed to extract foreground objects from images in a fully unsupervised manner. Foreground extraction can be viewed as a special case of generic image segmentation that focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Peiyu Yu , Sirui Xie , Xiaojian Ma , Yixin Zhu , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Segmenting salient objects in an image is an important vision task with ubiquitous applications. The problem becomes more challenging in the presence of a cluttered and textured background, low resolution and/or low contrast images. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Anuj Pahuja , Avishek Majumder , Anirban Chakraborty , R. Venkatesh Babu

Recent works have shown that objects discovery can largely benefit from the inherent motion information in video data. However, these methods lack a proper background processing, resulting in an over-segmentation of the non-object regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham