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Semantic segmentation in hyperbolic space enables compact modeling of hierarchical structure while providing inherent uncertainty quantification. Prior approaches predominantly rely on the Poincar\'e ball model, which suffers from numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zahid Hasan , Masud Ahmed , Nirmalya Roy

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

Assigning meaning to parts of image data is the goal of semantic image segmentation. Machine learning methods, specifically supervised learning is commonly used in a variety of tasks formulated as semantic segmentation. One of the major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski , Shiwei Liu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Segmentation of nuclei regions from histological images is an important task for automated computer-aided analysis of histological images, particularly in the presence of impermissible color variation in the color appearance of stained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Suman Mahapatra , Pradipta Maji

The paper presents a scalable approach for learning spatially distributed visual representations over individual tokens and a holistic instance representation simultaneously. We use self-attention blocks to represent spatially distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Zhirong Wu , Zihang Lai , Xiao Sun , Stephen Lin

Instance segmentation aims to detect and segment individual objects in a scene. Most existing methods rely on precise mask annotations of every category. However, it is difficult and costly to segment objects in novel categories because a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Weicheng Kuo , Anelia Angelova , Jitendra Malik , Tsung-Yi Lin

The opaque nature of deep learning models remains a significant barrier to their clinical adoption in medical imaging. This paper presents a multimodal explainability framework that bridges the gap between convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Paul Valery Nguezet , Elie Tagne Fute , Yusuf Brima , Benoit Martin Azanguezet , Marcellin Atemkeng

Most existing instance segmentation methods only focus on improving performance and are not suitable for real-time scenes such as autonomous driving. This paper proposes a real-time framework that segmenting and detecting 3D objects by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Shengjie Li , Caiyi Xu , Jianping Xing , Yafei Ning , Yonghong Chen

Outcome prediction is crucial for head and neck cancer patients as it can provide prognostic information for early treatment planning. Radiomics methods have been widely used for outcome prediction from medical images. However, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Mingyuan Meng , Lei Bi , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Masked image modeling (MIM) has demonstrated impressive results in self-supervised representation learning by recovering corrupted image patches. However, most existing studies operate on low-level image pixels, which hinders the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Qixiang Ye , Furu Wei

This work proposes a semantic segmentation network that produces high-quality uncertainty estimates in a single forward pass. We exploit general representations from foundation models and unlabelled datasets through a Masked Image Modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 David S. W. Williams , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman , Daniele De Martini

While large multimodal models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable progress, generating pixel-level masks for image reasoning tasks involving multiple open-world targets remains a challenge. To bridge this gap, we introduce PixelLM, an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhongwei Ren , Zhicheng Huang , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao , Dongmei Fu , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

In this work, we present HieraTok, a novel multi-scale Vision Transformer (ViT)-based tokenizer that overcomes the inherent limitation of modeling single-scale representations. This is realized through two key designs: (1) multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Cong Chen , Ziyuan Huang , Cheng Zou , Muzhi Zhu , Kaixiang Ji , Jiajia Liu , Jingdong Chen , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Hyperscaling of data and parameter count in LLMs is yielding diminishing improvement when weighed against training costs, underlining a growing need for more efficient finetuning and inference without sacrificing performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Moulik Choraria , Xinbo Wu , Akhil Bhimaraju , Nitesh Sekhar , Yue Wu , Xu Zhang , Prateek Singhal , Lav R. Varshney

Semantic amodal segmentation is a recently proposed extension to instance-aware segmentation that includes the prediction of the invisible region of each object instance. We present the first all-in-one end-to-end trainable model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Patrick Follmann , Rebecca König , Philipp Härtinger , Michael Klostermann

Masked language modeling (MLM) is one of the key sub-tasks in vision-language pretraining. In the cross-modal setting, tokens in the sentence are masked at random, and the model predicts the masked tokens given the image and the text. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yonatan Bitton , Gabriel Stanovsky , Michael Elhadad , Roy Schwartz

Building a unified visual tokenizer is essential for bridging the gap between visual understanding and generation. Yet existing approaches struggle with the inherent conflict between these tasks, as a single token space is forced to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yiwei Guo , Shaobin Zhuang , Zhipeng Huang , Canmiao Fu , Chen Li , Jing Lyu , Yali Wang

We present a novel active learning framework for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation that, for the first time, integrates large language models (LLMs) to construct hierarchical label structures and guide uncertainty-based sample selection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chenxi Li , Nuo Chen , Fengyun Tan , Yantong Chen , Bochun Yuan , Tianrui Li , Chongshou Li

Batch effects arising from technical variations in histopathology staining protocols, scanners, and acquisition pipelines pose a persistent challenge for computational pathology, hindering cross-batch generalization and limiting reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiaolong Zhang , Jianwei Zhang , Selim Sevim , Emek Demir , Ece Eksi , Xubo Song

Referring segmentation grounds natural-language queries to pixel-level masks, but extending it to complex scenarios with multiple instances, cross-category groups, or open-ended target sets remains challenging. Previous Large Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhuo Li , Shuangrui Ding , Yuhang Zang , Shengyuan Ding , Long Xing , Yibin Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jiaqi Wang