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Accurate and scalable cancer diagnosis remains a critical challenge in modern pathology, particularly for malignancies such as breast, prostate, bone, and cervical, which exhibit complex histological variability. In this study, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Faisal Ahmed

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) have led to significant progress in 2D body pose estimation. However, achieving a good balance between accuracy, efficiency, and robustness remains a challenge. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kaleab A. Kinfu , René Vidal

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a highly challenging problem since the initial mask, defining the target object, is only given at test-time. The main difficulty is to effectively handle appearance changes and similar background objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Andreas Robinson , Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg

Weakly-supervised image segmentation has recently attracted increasing research attentions, aiming to avoid the expensive pixel-wise labeling. In this paper, we present an effective method, namely Point2Mask, to achieve high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Wentong Li , Yuqian Yuan , Song Wang , Jianke Zhu , Jianshu Li , Jian Liu , Lei Zhang

We introduce dense vision transformers, an architecture that leverages vision transformers in place of convolutional networks as a backbone for dense prediction tasks. We assemble tokens from various stages of the vision transformer into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 René Ranftl , Alexey Bochkovskiy , Vladlen Koltun

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in capturing global dependencies but often struggle to efficiently represent fine-grained local details. Existing multi-scale approaches alleviate this issue by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qiyang Yu , Yu Fang , Tianrui Li , Xuemei Cao , Yan Chen , Jianghao Li , Fan Min

To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

As a de facto solution, the vanilla Vision Transformers (ViTs) are encouraged to model long-range dependencies between arbitrary image patches while the global attended receptive field leads to quadratic computational cost. Another branch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Jiayu Jiao , Yu-Ming Tang , Kun-Yu Lin , Yipeng Gao , Jinhua Ma , Yaowei Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

In the booming video era, video segmentation attracts increasing research attention in the multimedia community. Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims at segmenting objects in all target frames of a video, given annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaohao Xu , Jinglu Wang , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

Multi-class product counting and recognition identifies product items from images or videos for automated retail checkout. The task is challenging due to the real-world scenario of occlusions where product items overlap, fast movement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab , Nazia Tasnim , Hasib Zunair , Labiba Kanij Rupty , Nabeel Mohammed

Low-resolution image segmentation is crucial in real-world applications such as robotics, augmented reality, and large-scale scene understanding, where high-resolution data is often unavailable due to computational constraints. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Anzhe Cheng , Chenzhong Yin , Yu Chang , Heng Ping , Shixuan Li , Shahin Nazarian , Paul Bogdan

Two-stage and query-based instance segmentation methods have achieved remarkable results. However, their segmented masks are still very coarse. In this paper, we present Mask Transfiner for high-quality and efficient instance segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Xia Li , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have exhibited exceptional performance across diverse computer vision tasks, while their substantial parameter size incurs significantly increased memory and computational demands, impeding effective inference on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yanfeng Jiang , Ning Sun , Xueshuo Xie , Fei Yang , Tao Li

Promptable segmentation has emerged as a powerful paradigm in computer vision, enabling users to guide models in parsing complex scenes with prompts such as clicks, boxes, or textual cues. Recent advances, exemplified by the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoonwoo Jeong , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Minsu Cho , Jaesung Choe

In computer vision, Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) is still a difficult problem. We present ViT-SR, a new technique to improve the performance of a Vision Transformer (ViT) employing a two-stage training strategy. In our method, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Aditya Chaudhary , Prachet Dev Singh , Ankit Jha

Vision Transformer (ViT) has gained increasing attention in the computer vision community in recent years. However, the core component of ViT, Self-Attention, lacks explicit spatial priors and bears a quadratic computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Hongmin Liu , Ran He

As Vision Transformers (ViTs) increasingly set new benchmarks in computer vision, their practical deployment on inference engines is often hindered by their significant memory bandwidth and (on-chip) memory footprint requirements. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Seyedarmin Azizi , Mahdi Nazemi , Massoud Pedram

Transformers have been widely used in numerous vision problems especially for visual recognition and detection. Detection transformers are the first fully end-to-end learning systems for object detection, while vision transformers are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hwanjun Song , Deqing Sun , Sanghyuk Chun , Varun Jampani , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Wonjae Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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