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In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limits the quantity of labels available for training in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Tarun Kalluri , Girish Varma , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

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

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a label to each pixel in the image.In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have been driving advances in multiple tasks related to cognition. Although, DCNNs have resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aditya Ganeshan

Semantic image segmentation is an important computer vision task that is difficult because it consists of both recognition and segmentation. The task is often cast as a structured output problem on an exponentially large output-space, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Payman Yadollahpour

Continual Semantic Segmentation (CSS) requires learning new classes without forgetting previously acquired knowledge, addressing the fundamental challenge of catastrophic forgetting in dense prediction tasks. However, existing CSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Wentao Zhang , Zishan Xu , Dexia Chen , Siyu Zhang , Yizhe Zhang , Ruixuan Wang

Traditional video reasoning segmentation methods rely on supervised fine-tuning, which limits generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and lacks explicit reasoning. To address this, we propose \textbf{VideoSeg-R1}, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zishan Xu , Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Fengyu Yang , Junxin Li

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in new approaches improving the accuracy of semantic segmentation in a weakly supervised setting, i.e. with only image-level labels available for training. However, this has come at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Nikita Araslanov , Stefan Roth

Traditional methods for reasoning segmentation rely on supervised fine-tuning with categorical labels and simple descriptions, limiting its out-of-domain generalization and lacking explicit reasoning processes. To address these limitations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yuqi Liu , Bohao Peng , Zhisheng Zhong , Zihao Yue , Fanbin Lu , Bei Yu , Jiaya Jia

The significant amount of training data required for training Convolutional Neural Networks has become a bottleneck for applications like semantic segmentation. Few-shot semantic segmentation algorithms address this problem, with an aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Ayyappa Kumar Pambala , Titir Dutta , Soma Biswas

Reward design remains a significant bottleneck in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to real-world problems. A popular alternative is reward learning, where reward functions are inferred from human feedback rather than manually specified.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Chaitanya Kharyal , Calarina Muslimani , Matthew E. Taylor

Semantic segmentation (i.e. image parsing) aims to annotate each image pixel with its corresponding semantic class label. Spatially consistent labeling of the image requires an accurate description and modeling of the local contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hasan F. Ates , Sercan Sunetci

Semantic segmentation networks are usually pre-trained once and not updated during deployment. As a consequence, misclassifications commonly occur if the distribution of the training data deviates from the one encountered during the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jonas Frey , Hermann Blum , Francesco Milano , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Semantic segmentation is a powerful method to facilitate visual scene understanding. Each pixel is assigned a label according to a pre-defined list of object classes and semantic entities. This becomes very useful as a means to summarize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Marc Bosch , Gordon A. Christie , Christopher M. Gifford

Variational Level Set (LS) has been a widely used method in medical segmentation. However, it is limited when dealing with multi-instance objects in the real world. In addition, its segmentation results are quite sensitive to initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Ngan Le , Kha Gia Quach , Khoa Luu , Marios Savvides , Chenchen Zhu

Fine-grained visual reasoning remains a core challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The recently introduced ReasonMap highlights this gap by showing that even advanced MLLMs struggle with spatial reasoning in structured and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sicheng Feng , Kaiwen Tuo , Song Wang , Lingdong Kong , Jianke Zhu , Huan Wang

Recent advances in semi-supervised learning (SSL) demonstrate that a combination of consistency regularization and pseudo-labeling can effectively improve image classification accuracy in the low-data regime. Compared to classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuliang Zou , Zizhao Zhang , Han Zhang , Chun-Liang Li , Xiao Bian , Jia-Bin Huang , Tomas Pfister

Reward Machines (RMs) are an established mechanism in Reinforcement Learning (RL) to represent and learn sparse, temporally extended tasks with non-Markovian rewards. RMs rely on high-level information in the form of labels that are emitted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Thomas Krug , Daniel Neider

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a class-label to each pixel in an image. We propose a region-based semantic segmentation framework which handles both full and weak supervision, and addresses three common problems: (1) Objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Holger Caesar , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Semantic image segmentation is an essential component of modern autonomous driving systems, as an accurate understanding of the surrounding scene is crucial to navigation and action planning. Current state-of-the-art approaches in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Tobias Pohlen , Alexander Hermans , Markus Mathias , Bastian Leibe

Training deep networks for semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled training data, which presents a major challenge in practice, as labeling segmentation masks is a highly labor-intensive process. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Yuhua Chen , Adrian Köring , Suman Saha , Luc Van Gool