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Edge detection serves as a critical foundation for numerous computer vision applications, including object detection, semantic segmentation, and image editing, by extracting essential structural cues that define object boundaries and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuanbin Fu , Liang Li , Xiaojie Guo

Exploiting multi-scale representations is critical to improve edge detection for objects at different scales. To extract edges at dramatically different scales, we propose a Bi-Directional Cascade Network (BDCN) structure, where an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jianzhong He , Shiliang Zhang , Ming Yang , Yanhu Shan , Tiejun Huang

Our proposed deeply-supervised nets (DSN) method simultaneously minimizes classification error while making the learning process of hidden layers direct and transparent. We make an attempt to boost the classification performance by studying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-26 Chen-Yu Lee , Saining Xie , Patrick Gallagher , Zhengyou Zhang , Zhuowen Tu

The edge computing paradigm places compute-capable devices - edge servers - at the network edge to assist mobile devices in executing data analysis tasks. Intuitively, offloading compute-intense tasks to edge servers can reduce their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yoshitomo Matsubara , Marco Levorato

Recently, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can achieve human-level performance in edge detection with the rich and abstract edge representation capacities. However, the high performance of CNN based edge detection is achieved with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhuo Su , Wenzhe Liu , Zitong Yu , Dewen Hu , Qing Liao , Qi Tian , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Semantic segmentation of electron microscopy (EM) is an essential step to efficiently obtain reliable morphological statistics. Despite the great success achieved using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), they still produce coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Zhimin Yuan , Xiaofen Ma , Jiajin Yi , Zhengrong Luo , Jialin Peng

Machine learning has recently emerged as a promising approach for studying complex phenomena characterized by rich datasets. In particular, data-centric approaches lend to the possibility of automatically discovering structures in…

Object detection is a challenging task in visual understanding domain, and even more so if the supervision is to be weak. Recently, few efforts to handle the task without expensive human annotations is established by promising deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Ali Diba , Vivek Sharma , Ali Pazandeh , Hamed Pirsiavash , Luc Van Gool

Existing edge detection methods often suffer from noise amplification and excessive retention of non-salient details, limiting their applicability in high-precision industrial scenarios. To address these challenges, we propose CAM-EDIT, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Ru-yu Yan , Da-Qing Zhang

Pursuing more complete and coherent scene understanding towards realistic vision applications drives edge detection from category-agnostic to category-aware semantic level. However, finer delineation of instance-level boundaries still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yuan Hu , Yingtian Zou , Jiashi Feng

Defect detection is a basic and essential task in automatic parts production, especially for automotive engine precision parts. In this paper, we propose a new idea to construct a deep convolutional network combining related knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Zhenshen Qu , Jianxiong Shen , Ruikun Li , Junyu Liu , Qiuyu Guan

In image classification, visual separability between different object categories is highly uneven, and some categories are more difficult to distinguish than others. Such difficult categories demand more dedicated classifiers. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Zhicheng Yan , Hao Zhang , Robinson Piramuthu , Vignesh Jagadeesh , Dennis DeCoste , Wei Di , Yizhou Yu

The dominant approach for surface defect detection is the use of hand-crafted feature-based methods. However, this falls short when conditions vary that affect extracted images. So, in this paper, we sought to determine how well several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre

Edge detection, as a core component in a wide range of visionoriented tasks, is to identify object boundaries and prominent edges in natural images. An edge detector is desired to be both efficient and accurate for practical use. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yuanbin Fu , Xiaojie Guo

This study introduces a method for efficiently detecting objects within 3D point clouds using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our approach adopts a unique feature-centric voting mechanism to construct convolutional layers that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tianyi Lyu , Dian Gu , Peiyuan Chen , Yaoting Jiang , Zhenhong Zhang , Huadong Pang , Li Zhou , Yiping Dong

As a fundamental building block in computer vision, edges can be categorised into four types according to the discontinuity in surface-Reflectance, Illumination, surface-Normal or Depth. While great progress has been made in detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Mengyang Pu , Yaping Huang , Qingji Guan , Haibin Ling

Nowadays, hand gesture recognition has become an alternative for human-machine interaction. It has covered a large area of applications like 3D game technology, sign language interpreting, VR (virtual reality) environment, and robotics. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Abir Sen , Tapas Kumar Mishra , Ratnakar Dash

Deep neural network is an effective choice to automatically recognize human actions utilizing data from various wearable sensors. These networks automate the process of feature extraction relying completely on data. However, various noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Tanvir Mahmud , A. Q. M. Sazzad Sayyed , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah , Sun-Yuan Kung

Lane detection for autonomous vehicles is an important concept, yet it is a challenging issue of driver assistance systems in modern vehicles. The emergence of deep learning leads to significant progress in self-driving cars. Conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Seyed Rasoul Hosseini , Hamid Taheri , Mohammad Teshnehlab

Deep learning-based coastline detection algorithms have begun to outshine traditional statistical methods in recent years. However, they are usually trained only as single-purpose models to either segment land and water or delineate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Konrad Heidler , Lichao Mou , Celia Baumhoer , Andreas Dietz , Xiao Xiang Zhu