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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces the X-ray radiation but compromises image quality with more noises and artifacts. A plethora of transformer models have been developed recently to improve LDCT image quality. However, the success…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Dayang Wang , Yongshun Xu , Shuo Han , Hengyong Yu

We propose an embarrassingly simple point annotation scheme to collect weak supervision for instance segmentation. In addition to bounding boxes, we collect binary labels for a set of points uniformly sampled inside each bounding box. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Omkar Parkhi , Alexander Kirillov

We address the challenge of training Vision Transformers (ViTs) when labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. We propose Semi-Supervised Masked Autoencoder (SSMAE), a framework that jointly optimizes masked image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Atik Faysal , Mohammad Rostami , Reihaneh Gh. Roshan , Nikhil Muralidhar , Huaxia Wang

Medical image annotation is essential for diagnosing diseases, yet manual annotation is time-consuming, costly, and prone to variability among experts. To address these challenges, we propose an automated explainable annotation system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Basma Nasir , Tehseen Zia , Muhammad Nawaz , Catarina Moreira

Unsupervised multivariate time series (MTS) representation learning aims to extract compact and informative representations from raw sequences without relying on labels, enabling efficient transfer to diverse downstream tasks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yi Xu , Yitian Zhang , Yun Fu

Machine learning tasks over image databases often generate masks that annotate image content (e.g., saliency maps, segmentation maps, depth maps) and enable a variety of applications (e.g., determine if a model is learning spurious…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Dong He , Jieyu Zhang , Maureen Daum , Alexander Ratner , Magdalena Balazinska

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Rangel Daroya , Luisa Vieira Lucchese , Travis Simmons , Punwath Prum , Tamlin Pavelsky , John Gardner , Colin J. Gleason , Subhransu Maji

Deep learning has gained significant attention in medical image segmentation. However, the limited availability of annotated training data presents a challenge to achieving accurate results. In efforts to overcome this challenge, data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Aghiles Kebaili , Jérôme Lapuyade-Lahorgue , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

Neural network approaches to single-channel speech enhancement have received much recent attention. In particular, mask-based architectures have achieved significant performance improvements over conventional methods. This paper proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Bengt J. Borgstrom , Michael S. Brandstein

Visual understanding of complex urban street scenes is an enabling factor for a wide range of applications. Object detection has benefited enormously from large-scale datasets, especially in the context of deep learning. For semantic urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Marius Cordts , Mohamed Omran , Sebastian Ramos , Timo Rehfeld , Markus Enzweiler , Rodrigo Benenson , Uwe Franke , Stefan Roth , Bernt Schiele

Clustering short text embeddings is a foundational task in natural language processing, yet remains challenging due to the need to specify the number of clusters in advance. We introduce a scalable spectral method that estimates the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Nikita Neveditsin , Pawan Lingras , Vijay Mago

Existing works on semantic segmentation typically consider a small number of labels, ranging from tens to a few hundreds. With a large number of labels, training and evaluation of such task become extremely challenging due to correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yufei Wang , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jianming Zhang , Scott Cohen

Data-driven landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) typically relies on landslide conditioning factors (LCFs), whose availability, heterogeneity, and preprocessing-related uncertainties can constrain mapping reliability. Recently, Google…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yusen Cheng , Qinfeng Zhu , Lei Fan

Cancer detection and classification from gigapixel whole slide images of stained tissue specimens has recently experienced enormous progress in computational histopathology. The limitation of available pixel-wise annotated scans shifted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mehdi Naouar , Gabriel Kalweit , Ignacio Mastroleo , Philipp Poxleitner , Marc Metzger , Joschka Boedecker , Maria Kalweit

TACO is an open image dataset for litter detection and segmentation, which is growing through crowdsourcing. Firstly, this paper describes this dataset and the tools developed to support it. Secondly, we report instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Pedro F Proença , Pedro Simões

With the acceleration of the urban expansion, urban change detection (UCD), as a significant and effective approach, can provide the change information with respect to geospatial objects for dynamical urban analysis. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Shiqi Tian , Ailong Ma , Zhuo Zheng , Yanfei Zhong

Object detectors usually achieve promising results with the supervision of complete instance annotations. However, their performance is far from satisfactory with sparse instance annotations. Most existing methods for sparsely annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Tiancai Wang , Tong Yang , Jiale Cao , Xiangyu Zhang

Multiview systems have become a key technology in modern computer vision, offering advanced capabilities in scene understanding and analysis. However, these systems face critical challenges in bandwidth limitations and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kosta Dakic , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Rodrigo N. Calheiros , Teng Joon Lim

Object counting is a foundational vision task with over a decade of dedicated research, yet state-of-the-art models still fail systematically in the mixed-object setting that dominates real-world applications such as industrial inspection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Corentin Dumery , Niki Amini-Naieni , Shervin Naini , Pascal Fua

Semantic segmentation has innately relied on extensive pixel-level annotated data, leading to the emergence of unsupervised methodologies. Among them, leveraging self-supervised Vision Transformers for unsupervised semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Chanyoung Kim , Woojung Han , Dayun Ju , Seong Jae Hwang