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Light field (LF) cameras can record scenes from multiple perspectives, and thus introduce beneficial angular information for image super-resolution (SR). However, it is challenging to incorporate angular information due to disparities among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Yingqian Wang , Jungang Yang , Longguang Wang , Xinyi Ying , Tianhao Wu , Wei An , Yulan Guo

In this paper, we propose an image matting framework called Salient Image Matting to estimate the per-pixel opacity value of the most salient foreground in an image. To deal with a large amount of semantic diversity in images, a trimap is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rahul Deora , Rishab Sharma , Dinesh Samuel Sathia Raj

Salient object segmentation aims at distinguishing various salient objects from backgrounds. Despite the lack of semantic consistency, salient objects often have obvious texture and location characteristics in local area. Based on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Jing Tan , Pengfei Xiong , Yuwen He , Kuntao Xiao , Zhengyi Lv

In recent years, visual sensors have been quickly improving, notably targeting richer acquisitions of the light present in a visual scene. In this context, the so-called lenslet light field (LLF) cameras are able to go beyond the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Catarina Brites , João Ascenso , Fernando Pereira

Fully convolutional networks (FCN) has significantly improved the performance of many pixel-labeling tasks, such as semantic segmentation and depth estimation. However, it still remains non-trivial to thoroughly utilize the multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yunzhi Zhuge , Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Salient object detection (SOD), a foundational task in computer vision, has advanced from single-modal to multi-modal paradigms to enhance generalization. However, most existing SOD methods assume low-noise visual conditions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Quan Chen , Xiaokai Yang , Tingyu Wang , Rongfeng Lu , Xichun Sheng , Yaoqi Sun , Chenggang Yan

We solve the problem of salient object detection by investigating how to expand the role of pooling in convolutional neural networks. Based on the U-shape architecture, we first build a global guidance module (GGM) upon the bottom-up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jiang-Jiang Liu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng , Jianmin Jiang

In Few-Shot Learning (FSL), traditional metric-based approaches often rely on global metrics to compute similarity. However, in natural scenes, the spatial arrangement of key instances is often inconsistent across images. This spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hao Tang , Junhao Lu , Guoheng Huang , Ming Li , Xuhang Chen , Guo Zhong , Zhengguang Tan , Zinuo Li

Though deep learning techniques have made great progress in salient object detection recently, the predicted saliency maps still suffer from incomplete predictions due to the internal complexity of objects and inaccurate boundaries caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Runmin Wu , Mengyang Feng , Wenlong Guan , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Errui Ding

Semantic segmentation serves as a cornerstone of scene understanding in autonomous driving but continues to face significant challenges under complex conditions such as occlusion. Light field and LiDAR modalities provide complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jie Luo , Yuxuan Jiang , Xin Jin , Mingyu Liu , Yihui Fan

Beneficial from Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNs), saliency detection methods have achieved promising results. However, it is still challenging to learn effective features for detecting salient objects in complicated scenarios, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Sina Mohammadi , Mehrdad Noori , Ali Bahri , Sina Ghofrani Majelan , Mohammad Havaei

Light field (LF) cameras provide perspective information of scenes by taking directional measurements of the focusing light rays. The raw outputs are usually dark with additive camera noise, which impedes subsequent processing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Jie Chen , Junhui Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment objects of unseen classes given only a few annotated support images. Most existing methods simply stitch query features with independent support prototypes and segment the query image by feeding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kai Huang , Mingfei Cheng , Yang Wang , Bochen Wang , Ye Xi , Feigege Wang , Peng Chen

In this paper, we address the challenge of Perspective-Invariant Learning in machine learning and computer vision, which involves enabling a network to understand images from varying perspectives to achieve consistent semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Deyi Ji , Feng Zhao , Lanyun Zhu , Wenwei Jin , Hongtao Lu , Jieping Ye

We present Panoptic Neural Fields (PNF), an object-aware neural scene representation that decomposes a scene into a set of objects (things) and background (stuff). Each object is represented by an oriented 3D bounding box and a multi-layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Abhijit Kundu , Kyle Genova , Xiaoqi Yin , Alireza Fathi , Caroline Pantofaru , Leonidas Guibas , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Frank Dellaert , Thomas Funkhouser

Infrared object detection focuses on identifying and locating objects in complex environments (\eg, dark, snow, and rain) where visible imaging cameras are disabled by poor illumination. However, due to low contrast and weak edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Fan Liu , Ting Wu , Chuanyi Zhang , Liang Yao , Xing Ma , Yuhui Zheng

Light field cameras are capable of capturing intricate angular and spatial details. This allows for acquiring complex light patterns and details from multiple angles, significantly enhancing the precision of image semantic segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Fei Teng , Jiaming Zhang , Kunyu Peng , Yaonan Wang , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Kailun Yang

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong few-shot learning capabilities. However, these methods typically learn holistic representations where an image's domain-invariant structure is implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hieu Dinh Trung Pham , Huy Minh Nhat Nguyen , Cuong Tuan Nguyen

Depth estimation from light field (LF) images is a fundamental step for numerous applications. Recently, learning-based methods have achieved higher accuracy and efficiency than the traditional methods. However, it is costly to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam