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Image retrieval in realistic scenarios targets large dynamic datasets of unlabeled images. In these cases, training or fine-tuning a model every time new images are added to the database is neither efficient nor scalable. Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Albert Jimenez , Jose M. Alvarez , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

We propose an automatic preprocessing and ensemble learning for segmentation of cell images with low quality. It is difficult to capture cells with strong light. Therefore, the microscopic images of cells tend to have low image quality but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Sota Kato , Kazuhiro Hotta

We propose the autofocus convolutional layer for semantic segmentation with the objective of enhancing the capabilities of neural networks for multi-scale processing. Autofocus layers adaptively change the size of the effective receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Yao Qin , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Siddharth Ancha , Jay Nanavati , Garrison Cottrell , Antonio Criminisi , Aditya Nori

In material science, image segmentation is of great significance for quantitative analysis of microstructures. Here, we propose a novel Weighted Propagation Convolution Neural Network based on U-Net (WPU-Net) to detect boundary in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Wei Liu , Jiahao Chen , Chuni Liu , Xiaojuan Ban , Boyuan Ma , Hao Wang , Weihua Xue , Yu Guo

Vision transformers are effective deep learning models for vision tasks, including medical image segmentation. However, they lack efficiency and translational invariance, unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs). To model long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Liam Chalcroft , Ruben Lourenço Pereira , Mikael Brudfors , Andrew S. Kayser , Mark D'Esposito , Cathy J. Price , Ioannis Pappas , John Ashburner

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) increase depth by stacking convolutional layers, and deeper network models perform better in image recognition. Empirical research shows that simply stacking convolutional layers does not make the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rui-Yang Ju , Jen-Shiun Chiang , Chih-Chia Chen , Yu-Shian Lin

Object detection in challenging situations such as scale variation, occlusion, and truncation depends not only on feature details but also on contextual information. Most previous networks emphasize too much on detailed feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Wenchi Ma , Yuanwei Wu , Zongbo Wang , Guanghui Wang

As one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision, semantic segmentation plays an important role in real world applications. Although numerous deep learning models have made notable progress on several mainstream datasets with the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Bin Zhang , Shengjie Zhao , Rongqing Zhang

We present a detail-driven deep neural network for point set upsampling. A high-resolution point set is essential for point-based rendering and surface reconstruction. Inspired by the recent success of neural image super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Hui Huang , Daniel Cohen-Or , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Existing image recognition techniques based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) basically assume that the training and test datasets are sampled from i.i.d distributions. However, this assumption is easily broken in the real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Kazuki Adachi , Shin'ya Yamaguchi

Human brain is a layered structure, and performs not only a feedforward process from a lower layer to an upper layer but also a feedback process from an upper layer to a lower layer. The layer is a collection of neurons, and neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Eisuke Shibuya , Kazuhiro Hotta

Controlling crystalline material defects is crucial, as they affect properties of the material that may be detrimental or beneficial for the final performance of a device. Defect analysis on the sub-nanometer scale is enabled by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-03 Nik Dennler , Antonio Foncubierta-Rodriguez , Titus Neupert , Marilyne Sousa

In this paper, we propose to exploit the rich hierarchical features of deep convolutional neural networks to improve the accuracy and robustness of visual tracking. Deep neural networks trained on object recognition datasets consist of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chao Ma , Jia-Bin Huang , Xiaokang Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Batch normalization is a key component of most image classification models, but it has many undesirable properties stemming from its dependence on the batch size and interactions between examples. Although recent work has succeeded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Andrew Brock , Soham De , Samuel L. Smith , Karen Simonyan

Deep convolutional neural networks have recently achieved great success on image aesthetics assessment task. In this paper, we propose an efficient method which takes the global, local and scene-aware information of images into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Xin Fu , Jia Yan , Cien Fan

Segmentation is a crucial step in microscopy image analysis. Numerous approaches have been developed over the past years, ranging from classical segmentation algorithms to advanced deep learning models. While U-Net remains one of the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Illia Tsiporenko , Pavel Chizhov , Dmytro Fishman

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the understanding of visual content. This is mainly due to their ability to break down an image into smaller pieces, extract multi-scale localized features and compose them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Asish Bera

Part models of object categories are essential for challenging recognition tasks, where differences in categories are subtle and only reflected in appearances of small parts of the object. We present an approach that is able to learn part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Marcel Simon , Erik Rodner

Medical vision foundational models are used for a wide variety of tasks, including medical image segmentation and registration. This work evaluates the ability of these models to predict disease progression using a simple linear probe. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Basar Demir , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Thomas Hastings Greer , Boqi Chen , Marc Niethammer

Superpixels are a useful representation to reduce the complexity of image data. However, to combine superpixels with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in an end-to-end fashion, one requires extra models to generate superpixels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Teppei Suzuki