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Enabled by large annotated datasets, tracking and segmentation of objects in videos has made remarkable progress in recent years. Despite these advancements, algorithms still struggle under degraded conditions and during fast movements.…

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Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), particularly video generation with diffusion models, has been advanced rapidly. Invisible watermarking is a key technology for protecting AI-generated videos and tracing harmful content, and…

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Interactive segmentation aims to accurately segment target objects with minimal user interactions. However, current methods often fail to accurately separate target objects from the background, due to a limited understanding of order, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Bin Wang , Anwesa Choudhuri , Meng Zheng , Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Andong Deng , Qin Liu , Terrence Chen , Ulas Bagci , Ziyan Wu

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective approach for self-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). Our key insight is that the inherent structural dependencies present in DINO-pretrained Transformers can be leveraged to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shuangrui Ding , Rui Qian , Haohang Xu , Dahua Lin , Hongkai Xiong

We propose a deep learning-based framework for instance-level object segmentation. Our method mainly consists of three steps. First, We train a generic model based on ResNet-101 for foreground/background segmentations. Second, based on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Jingchun Cheng , Sifei Liu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chih Hung , Shalini De Mello , Jinwei Gu , Jan Kautz , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

High-quality training data play a key role in image segmentation tasks. Usually, pixel-level annotations are expensive, laborious and time-consuming for the large volume of training data. To reduce labelling cost and improve segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuying Hao , Yi Liu , Zewu Wu , Lin Han , Yizhou Chen , Guowei Chen , Lutao Chu , Shiyu Tang , Zhiliang Yu , Zeyu Chen , Baohua Lai

Images captured from the real world are often affected by different types of noise, which can significantly impact the performance of Computer Vision systems and the quality of visual data. This study presents a novel approach for defect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Mohsen Hami , Mahdi JameBozorg

Underwater object detection has higher requirements of running speed and deployment efficiency for the detector due to its specific environmental challenges. NMS of two- or one-stage object detectors and transformer architecture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhuoyan Liu , Bo Wang , Bing Wang , Ye Li

Recently, instance segmentation has made great progress with the rapid development of deep neural networks. However, there still exist two main challenges including discovering indistinguishable objects and modeling the relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jinming Su , Ruihong Yin , Xingyue Chen , Junfeng Luo

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used for decision making in a myriad of critical applications, ranging from medical to societal and even judicial. Given the importance of these decisions, it is crucial for us to be able to interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Teddy Koker , Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Tom Titcombe , Georgios Kaissis

Interactive image segmentation enables users to interact minimally with a machine, facilitating the gradual refinement of the segmentation mask for a target of interest. Previous studies have demonstrated impressive performance in…

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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

Iris segmentation is the initial step to identify biometric of animals to establish a traceability system of livestock. In this study, we propose a novel deep learning framework for pixel-wise segmentation with minimum use of annotation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Heemoon Yoon , Mira Park , Sang-Hee Lee

Instance segmentation is one of the actively studied research topics in computer vision in which many objects of interest should be separated individually. While many feed-forward networks produce high-quality segmentation on different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Tuan Tran Anh , Khoa Nguyen-Tuan , Tran Minh Quan , Won-Ki Jeong

Image segmentation and classification are the two main fundamental steps in pattern recognition. To perform medical image segmentation or classification with deep learning models, it requires training on large image dataset with annotation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Anandhanarayanan Kamalakannan , Shiva Shankar Ganesan , Govindaraj Rajamanickam

Accurate detection and segmentation of marine debris is important for keeping the water bodies clean. This paper presents a novel dataset for marine debris segmentation collected using a Forward Looking Sonar (FLS). The dataset consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Deepak Singh , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Precise segmentation of objects with highly similar shapes remains a challenging problem in dense prediction, especially in scenarios with ambiguous boundaries, overlapping instances, and weak inter-instance visual differences. While…

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Accurate vessel segmentation is critical for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis and surgical planning, yet remains challenging due to thin, branching structures and low texture contrast. While foundation models like the Segment…

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Despite the significant advancements in general image segmentation achieved by large-scale pre-trained foundation models (such as Meta's Segment Any-thing Model (SAM) series and DINOv2), their performance in specialized fields remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yimin Xu , Fan Yang , Bin Xu