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Semantic segmentation of microscopy cell images by deep learning is a significant technique. We considered that the Transformers, which have recently outperformed CNNs in image recognition, could also be improved and developed for cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hinako Mitsuoka , Kazuhiro Hotta

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shilong Zhang , He Zhang , Zhifei Zhang , Chongjian Ge , Shuchen Xue , Shaoteng Liu , Mengwei Ren , Soo Ye Kim , Yuqian Zhou , Qing Liu , Daniil Pakhomov , Kai Zhang , Zhe Lin , Ping Luo

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Existing methods mainly utilize spatial attention to highlight the region of interest. However, due to limitations of medical imaging devices, medical images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Daokun Zhang , Ruili Wang , Rong Qu , Guoping Qiu

The quality and richness of feature maps extracted by convolution neural networks (CNNs) and vision Transformers (ViTs) directly relate to the robust model performance. In medical computer vision, these information-rich features are crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yassine Barhoumi , Nidhal C. Bouaynaya , Ghulam Rasool

Recently, transformer-based models have demonstrated remarkable performance on audio-visual segmentation (AVS) tasks. However, their expensive computational cost makes real-time inference impractical. By characterizing attention maps of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zili Wang , Qi Yang , Linsu Shi , Jiazhong Yu , Qinghua Liang , Fei Li , Shiming Xiang

Semantic segmentation is an important task in computer vision, from which some important usage scenarios are derived, such as autonomous driving, scene parsing, etc. Due to the emphasis on the task of video semantic segmentation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Zixuan Chen , Junhong Zou , Xiaotao Wang

The combination of audio and vision has long been a topic of interest in the multi-modal community. Recently, a new audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task has been introduced, aiming to locate and segment the sounding objects in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shengyi Gao , Zhe Chen , Guo Chen , Wenhai Wang , Tong Lu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are ubiquitous in computer vision, with a myriad of effective and efficient variations. Recently, Transformers -- originally introduced in natural language processing -- have been increasingly adopted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Peng Gao , Jiasen Lu , Hongsheng Li , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Aniruddha Kembhavi

State-of-the-art semantic image segmentation methods are mostly based on training deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this work, we proffer to improve semantic segmentation with the use of contextual information. In particular, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Ian Reid

We present SegNeXt, a simple convolutional network architecture for semantic segmentation. Recent transformer-based models have dominated the field of semantic segmentation due to the efficiency of self-attention in encoding spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Meng-Hao Guo , Cheng-Ze Lu , Qibin Hou , Zhengning Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Shi-Min Hu

In today's world, image processing plays a crucial role across various fields, from scientific research to industrial applications. But one particularly exciting application is image captioning. The potential impact of effective image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Md Alif Rahman Ridoy , M Mahmud Hasan , Shovon Bhowmick

We propose a method for high-performance semantic image segmentation (or semantic pixel labelling) based on very deep residual networks, which achieves the state-of-the-art performance. A few design factors are carefully considered to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling machines to understand and interpret visual scenes at a pixel level. While traditional segmentation methods have achieved remarkable success, their generalization to diverse scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Philip Hughes , Larry Burns , Luke Adams

Semantic segmentation (i.e. image parsing) aims to annotate each image pixel with its corresponding semantic class label. Spatially consistent labeling of the image requires an accurate description and modeling of the local contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hasan F. Ates , Sercan Sunetci

Image segmentation, a key task in computer vision, has traditionally relied on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), yet these models struggle with capturing complex spatial dependencies, objects with varying scales, need for manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Deepjyoti Chetia , Debasish Dutta , Sanjib Kr Kalita

Models for semantic segmentation require a large amount of hand-labeled training data which is costly and time-consuming to produce. For this purpose, we present a label fusion framework that is capable of improving semantic pixel labels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Florian Fervers , Timo Breuer , Gregor Stachowiak , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

Modeling semantic information is helpful for scene text recognition. In this work, we propose to model semantic and visual information jointly with a Visual-Semantic Transformer (VST). The VST first explicitly extracts primary semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xin Tang , Yongquan Lai , Ying Liu , Yuanyuan Fu , Rui Fang

Interactive image segmentation enables annotators to efficiently perform pixel-level annotation for segmentation tasks. However, the existing interactive segmentation pipeline suffers from inefficient computations of interactive models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 You Huang , Hao Yang , Ke Sun , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

In this paper, we delve into the realm of vision transformers for continual semantic segmentation, a problem that has not been sufficiently explored in previous literature. Empirical investigations on the adaptation of existing frameworks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Bowen Dong , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment an object referred to by natural language expression from an image. The primary challenge lies in the efficient propagation of fine-grained semantic information from textual features to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Jing Liu