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Instance segmentation aims to delineate each individual object of interest in an image. State-of-the-art approaches achieve this goal by either partitioning semantic segmentations or refining coarse representations of detected objects. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Long Chen , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Segmenting highly-overlapping image objects is challenging, because there is typically no distinction between real object contours and occlusion boundaries on images. Unlike previous instance segmentation methods, we model image formation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Lei Ke , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Current closed-set instance segmentation models rely on pre-defined class labels for each mask during training and evaluation, largely limiting their ability to detect novel objects. Open-world instance segmentation (OWIS) models address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Muzhi Zhu , Hengtao Li , Hao Chen , Chengxiang Fan , Weian Mao , Chenchen Jing , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Focusing on only semantic instances that only salient in a scene gains more benefits for robot navigation and self-driving cars than looking at all objects in the whole scene. This paper pushes the envelope on salient regions in a video to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Trung-Nghia Le , Akihiro Sugimoto

Images of realistic scenes often contain intra-class objects that are heavily occluded from each other, making the amodal perception task that requires parsing the occluded parts of the objects challenging. Although important for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Jiayang Ao , Qiuhong Ke , Krista A. Ehinger

We identify occlusion reasoning as a fundamental yet overlooked aspect for 3D layout-conditioned generation. It is essential for synthesizing partially occluded objects with depth-consistent geometry and scale. While existing methods can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Vaibhav Agrawal , Rishubh Parihar , Pradhaan Bhat , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla , R. Venkatesh Babu

We present a robotic system for picking a target from a pile of objects that is capable of finding and grasping the target object by removing obstacles in the appropriate order. The fundamental idea is to segment instances with both visible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Kentaro Wada , Shingo Kitagawa , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

We present a new, embarrassingly simple approach to instance segmentation in images. Compared to many other dense prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation, it is the arbitrary number of instances that have made instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinlong Wang , Tao Kong , Chunhua Shen , Yuning Jiang , Lei Li

We present a new algorithm for multi-region segmentation of 2D images with objects that may partially occlude each other. Our algorithm is based on the observation hat human performance on this task is based both on prior knowledge about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Yuka Kihara , Matvey Soloviev , Tsuhan Chen

We propose a new method for semantic instance segmentation, by first computing how likely two pixels are to belong to the same object, and then by grouping similar pixels together. Our similarity metric is based on a deep, fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Alireza Fathi , Zbigniew Wojna , Vivek Rathod , Peng Wang , Hyun Oh Song , Sergio Guadarrama , Kevin P. Murphy

We introduce a novel method for 3D object detection and pose estimation from color images only. We first use segmentation to detect the objects of interest in 2D even in presence of partial occlusions and cluttered background. By contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Mahdi Rad , Vincent Lepetit

Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD) has emerged as a contemporary research direction to address the detection of unknown objects. Recently, few works have achieved remarkable performance in the OSOD task by employing contrastive clustering to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hiran Sarkar , Vishal Chudasama , Naoyuki Onoe , Pankaj Wasnik , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Reliable 3D segmentation is critical for understanding complex scenes with dense layouts and multi-scale objects, as commonly seen in industrial environments. In such scenarios, heavy occlusion weakens geometric boundaries between objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yu Zhu , Naoya Chiba , Koichi Hashimoto

Discovering 3D arrangements of objects from single indoor images is important given its many applications including interior design, content creation, etc. Although heavily researched in the recent years, existing approaches break down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Moos Hueting , Pradyumna Reddy , Vladimir Kim , Ersin Yumer , Nathan Carr , Niloy Mitra

Humans excel at forming mental maps of their surroundings, equipping them to understand object relationships and navigate based on language queries. Our previous work, SI Maps (Nanwani L, Agarwal A, Jain K, et al. Instance-level semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Laksh Nanwani , Kumaraditya Gupta , Aditya Mathur , Swayam Agrawal , A. H. Abdul Hafez , K. Madhava Krishna

Open-world instance-level scene understanding aims to locate and recognize unseen object categories that are not present in the annotated dataset. This task is challenging because the model needs to both localize novel 3D objects and infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Runyu Ding , Jihan Yang , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Occlusion is a long-standing problem in computer vision, particularly in instance segmentation. ACM MMSports 2023 DeepSportRadar has introduced a dataset that focuses on segmenting human subjects within a basketball context and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Son Nguyen , Mikel Lainsa , Hung Dao , Daeyoung Kim , Giang Nguyen

Most learning-based approaches to category-level 6D pose estimation are design around normalized object coordinate space (NOCS). While being successful, NOCS-based methods become inaccurate and less robust when handling objects of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Boyan Wan , Yifei Shi , Kai Xu

Recent works on open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation show strong promise, but at the cost of slow inference speed and high computation requirements. This high computation cost is typically due to their heavy reliance on 3D clip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Mohamed El Amine Boudjoghra , Angela Dai , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

We present a new learning-based method for multi-frame depth estimation from a color video, which is a fundamental problem in scene understanding, robot navigation or handheld 3D reconstruction. While recent learning-based methods estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xiaoxiao Long , Lingjie Liu , Christian Theobalt , Wenping Wang