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Autonomous vehicles are a promising solution to traffic congestion, air pollution, accidents, and wasted time and resources. However, remote driver intervention may be necessary for extreme situations to ensure safe roadside parking or…
Current semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) methods usually leverage the entire features of one frame to predict object masks and update memory. This introduces significant redundant computations. To reduce redundancy, we…
Aerial surveillance from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), i.e. with moving cameras, is of growing interest for police as well as disaster area monitoring. For more detailed ground images the camera resolutions are steadily increasing.…
COVID-19 leads to the high demand for remote interactive systems ever seen. One of the key elements of these systems is video streaming, which requires a very high network bandwidth due to its specific real-time demand, especially with…
In this paper, we present Mondrian, an edge system that enables high-performance object detection on high-resolution video streams. Many lightweight models and system optimization techniques have been proposed for resource-constrained…
The sheer volume and size of histopathological images (e.g.,10^6 MPixel) underscores the need for faster and more accurate Regions-of-interest (ROI) detection algorithms. In this paper, we propose such an algorithm, which has four main…
The development of embodied AI systems is increasingly constrained by the availability and structure of physical interaction data. Despite recent advances in vision-language-action (VLA) models, current pipelines suffer from high data…
Region-of-Interest (ROI) location information in videos has many practical usages in video coding field, such as video content analysis and user experience improvement. Although ROI-based coding has been studied widely by many researchers…
Medical imaging archives are growing rapidly in both size and resolution, making efficient compression increasingly important for storage and data transfer. Most existing codecs compress full images/volumes(including non-diagnostic…
Ultra-low bitrate image compression faces a critical challenge: preserving small-font scene text while maintaining overall visual quality. Region-of-interest (ROI) bit allocation can prioritize text but often degrades global fidelity,…
Convolutional neural nets (CNN) are the leading computer vision method for classifying images. In some cases, it is desirable to classify only a specific region of the image that corresponds to a certain object. Hence, assuming that the…
Recent work has shown that learned image compression strategies can outperform standard hand-crafted compression algorithms that have been developed over decades of intensive research on the rate-distortion trade-off. With growing…
Breast cancer screening with mammography remains central to early detection and mortality reduction. Deep learning has shown strong potential for automating mammogram interpretation, yet limited-resolution datasets and small sample sizes…
Images with abnormal brain anatomy produce problems for automatic segmentation techniques, and as a result poor ROI detection affects both quantitative measurements and visual assessment of perfusion data. This paper presents a new approach…
Recently, more and more images are compressed and sent to the back-end devices for the machine analysis tasks~(\textit{e.g.,} object detection) instead of being purely watched by humans. However, most traditional or learned image codecs are…
Learned image compression methods generally optimize a rate-distortion loss, trading off improvements in visual distortion for added bitrate. Increasingly, however, compressed imagery is used as an input to deep learning networks for…
An increasing share of captured images and videos are transmitted for storage and remote analysis by computer vision algorithms, rather than to be viewed by humans. Contrary to traditional standard codecs with engineered tools, neural…
Convolutional neural networks have emerged as the leading method for the classification and segmentation of images. In some cases, it is desirable to focus the attention of the net on a specific region in the image; one such case is the…
A main goal in developing video-compression algorithms is to enhance human-perceived visual quality while maintaining file size. But modern video-analysis efforts such as detection and recognition, which are integral to video surveillance…
There is tremendous scope for improving the energy efficiency of embedded vision systems by incorporating programmable region-of-interest (ROI) readout in the image sensor design. In this work, we study how ROI programmability can be…