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Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

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With recent breakthroughs in large-scale modeling, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated significant potential in a variety of visual applications. However, due to the lack of underwater domain expertise, SAM and its variants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hua Li , Shijie Lian , Zhiyuan Li , Runmin Cong , Chongyi Li , Laurence T. Yang , Weidong Zhang , Sam Kwong

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Semantic segmentation has witnessed tremendous progress due to the proposal of various advanced network architectures. However, they are extremely hungry for delicate annotations to train, and the acquisition is laborious and unaffordable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lihe Yang , Xiaogang Xu , Bingyi Kang , Yinghuan Shi , Hengshuang Zhao

Tissue semantic segmentation is one of the key tasks in computational pathology. To avoid the expensive and laborious acquisition of pixel-level annotations, a wide range of studies attempt to adopt the class activation map (CAM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zijie Fang , Yifeng Wang , Peizhang Xie , Zhi Wang , Yongbing Zhang

We present Generative Semantic Segmentation (GSS), a generative learning approach for semantic segmentation. Uniquely, we cast semantic segmentation as an image-conditioned mask generation problem. This is achieved by replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Chen , Jiachen Lu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart

Inspired by the biological visual system that selectively allocates attention to efficiently identify salient objects or regions, underwater salient instance segmentation (USIS) aims to jointly address the problems of where to look…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Lin Hong , Xin Wang , Yihao Li , Xia Wang

Semantic segmentation of Very High Resolution (VHR) remote sensing images is a fundamental task for many applications. However, large variations in the scales of objects in those VHR images pose a challenge for performing accurate semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yuanzhi Cai , Lei Fan , Yuan Fang

Common visual recognition tasks such as classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation are rapidly reaching maturity, and given the recent rate of progress, it is not unreasonable to conjecture that techniques for many of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Yan Zhu , Yuandong Tian , Dimitris Mexatas , Piotr Dollár

With the breakthrough of large models, Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its extensions have been attempted to apply in diverse tasks of computer vision. Underwater salient instance segmentation is a foundational and vital step for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shijie Lian , Ziyi Zhang , Hua Li , Wenjie Li , Laurence Tianruo Yang , Sam Kwong , Runmin Cong

The semantic image segmentation task consists of classifying each pixel of an image into an instance, where each instance corresponds to a class. This task is a part of the concept of scene understanding or better explaining the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Kumar Abhishek , Joseph Paul Cohen , Julien Cohen-Adad , Ghassan Hamarneh

Statistical Shape Modeling (SSM) effectively analyzes anatomical variations within populations but is limited by the need for manual localization and segmentation, which relies on scarce medical expertise. Recent advances in deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Janmesh Ukey , Tushar Kataria , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Range-view based LiDAR segmentation methods are attractive for practical applications due to their direct inheritance from efficient 2D CNN architectures. In literature, most range-view based methods follow the per-pixel classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Yi Gu , Yuming Huang , Chengzhong Xu , Hui Kong

In this paper, we present the first large-scale dataset for semantic Segmentation of Underwater IMagery (SUIM). It contains over 1500 images with pixel annotations for eight object categories: fish (vertebrates), reefs (invertebrates),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Md Jahidul Islam , Chelsey Edge , Yuyang Xiao , Peigen Luo , Muntaqim Mehtaz , Christopher Morse , Sadman Sakib Enan , Junaed Sattar

Humans are able to recognize structured relations in observation, allowing us to decompose complex scenes into simpler parts and abstract the visual world in multiple levels. However, such hierarchical reasoning ability of human perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Liulei Li , Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Jianwu Li , Yi Yang

Recent advancements in image segmentation have focused on enhancing the efficiency of the models to meet the demands of real-time applications, especially on edge devices. However, existing research has primarily concentrated on single-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Gabriele Rosi , Claudia Cuttano , Niccolò Cavagnero , Giuseppe Averta , Fabio Cermelli

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis, yet existing models are limited by their reliance on explicit human instructions and lack the active reasoning capabilities to understand complex clinical questions. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yu Huang , Zelin Peng , Yichen Zhao , Piao Yang , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

Open world image segmentation aims to achieve precise segmentation and semantic understanding of targets within images by addressing the infinitely open set of object categories encountered in the real world. However, traditional closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Danyang Li , Tianhao Wu , Bin Li , Zhenyuan Chen , Yang Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

Vision-based semantic segmentation of waterbodies and nearby related objects provides important information for managing water resources and handling flooding emergency. However, the lack of large-scale labeled training and testing datasets…

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