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Deep convolutional neural networks have become a key element in the recent breakthrough of salient object detection. However, existing CNN-based methods are based on either patch-wise (region-wise) training and inference or fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Accurate and robust object detection is critical for autonomous driving. Image-based detectors face difficulties caused by low visibility in adverse weather conditions. Thus, radar-camera fusion is of particular interest but presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Huawei Sun , Hao Feng , Georg Stettinger , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Despite the powerful feature extraction capability of Convolutional Neural Networks, there are still some challenges in saliency detection. In this paper, we focus on two aspects of challenges: i) Since salient objects appear in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Mehrdad Noori , Sina Mohammadi , Sina Ghofrani Majelan , Ali Bahri , Mohammad Havaei

Multi-modality image fusion and segmentation play a vital role in autonomous driving and robotic operation. Early efforts focus on boosting the performance for only one task, \emph{e.g.,} fusion or segmentation, making it hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jinyuan Liu , Zhu Liu , Guanyao Wu , Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Wei Zhong , Zhongxuan Luo , Xin Fan

Salient object detection has been attracting a lot of interest, and recently various heuristic computational models have been designed. In this paper, we formulate saliency map computation as a regression problem. Our method, which is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Huaizu Jiang , Zejian Yuan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yihong Gong , Nanning Zheng , Jingdong Wang

Image fusion typically employs non-invertible neural networks to merge multiple source images into a single fused image. However, for clinical experts, solely relying on fused images may be insufficient for making diagnostic decisions, as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Nishant Kumar , Ziyan Tao , Jaikirat Singh , Yang Li , Peiwen Sun , Binghui Zhao , Stefan Gumhold

We present a novel online depth map fusion approach that learns depth map aggregation in a latent feature space. While previous fusion methods use an explicit scene representation like signed distance functions (SDFs), we propose a learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Silvan Weder , Johannes L. Schönberger , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

Fine-grained image retrieval (FGIR) is to learn visual representations that distinguish visually similar objects while maintaining generalization. Existing methods propose to generate discriminative features, but rarely consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xin Jiang , Hao Tang , Rui Yan , Jinhui Tang , Zechao Li

Event-based semantic segmentation explores the potential of event cameras, which offer high dynamic range and fine temporal resolution, to achieve robust scene understanding in challenging environments. Despite these advantages, the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhijiang Li , Haoran He

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is a fundamental task in multi-modal perception that aims to integrate complementary structural and textural cues from different spectral domains. In this paper, we propose FusionNet, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tianyao Sun , Dawei Xiang , Tianqi Ding , Xiang Fang , Yijiashun Qi , Zunduo Zhao

Estimates of image gradients play a ubiquitous role in image segmentation and classification problems since gradients directly relate to the boundaries or the edges of a scene. This paper proposes an unified approach to gradient estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Anish Acharya , Uddipan Mukherjee , Charless Fowlkes

Current text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating diverse, high-quality images, yet they struggle to incorporate fine-grained camera metadata such as precise aperture settings. In this work, we introduce a novel text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Ayush Shrivastava , Connelly Barnes , Xuaner Zhang , Lingzhi Zhang , Andrew Owens , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Eli Shechtman

Active contour models have achieved prominent success in the area of image segmentation, allowing complex objects to be segmented from the background for further analysis. Existing models can be divided into region-based active contour…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ehtesham Iqbal , Asim Niaz , Asif Aziz Memon , Usman Asim , Kwang Nam Choi

Surface defect inspection is an important task in industrial inspection. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated promising performance in this domain. Nevertheless, these methods still suffer from misjudgment when encountering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoheng Jiang , Shilong Tian , Zhiwen Zhu , Yang Lu , Hao Liu , Li Chen , Shupan Li , Mingliang Xu

Fusing LiDAR and camera information is essential for achieving accurate and reliable 3D object detection in autonomous driving systems. This is challenging due to the difficulty of combining multi-granularity geometric and semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Vision Transformer and its variants have demonstrated great potential in various computer vision tasks. But conventional vision transformers often focus on global dependency at a coarse level, which suffer from a learning challenge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunhao Wang , Huixin Sun , Xiaodi Wang , Bin Zhang , Chao Li , Ying Xin , Baochang Zhang , Errui Ding , Shumin Han

Diffusion models have demonstrated their ability to generate diverse and high-quality images, sparking considerable interest in their potential for real image editing applications. However, existing diffusion-based approaches for local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenjing Huang , Shikui Tu , Lei Xu

Most existing lightweight RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) models are based on two-stream structure or single-stream structure. The former one first uses two sub-networks to extract unimodal features from RGB and depth images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Nianchang Huang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han

Dense image prediction tasks demand features with strong category information and precise spatial boundary details at high resolution. To achieve this, modern hierarchical models often utilize feature fusion, directly adding upsampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Linwei Chen , Ying Fu , Lin Gu , Chenggang Yan , Tatsuya Harada , Gao Huang

Object co-segmentation has drawn significant attention in recent years, thanks to its clarity on the expected foreground, the shared object in a group of images. Saliency fusion has been one of the promising ways to carry it out. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Harshit Singh Chhabra , Koteswar Rao Jerripothula