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Foundation models have advanced computer vision by enabling strong performance across diverse tasks through large-scale pretraining and supervised fine-tuning. However, they may underperform in domains with distribution shifts and scarce…

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Despite the significant progress made by all-in-one models in universal image restoration, existing methods suffer from a generalization bottleneck in real-world scenarios, as they are mostly trained on small-scale synthetic datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hao Li , Xiang Chen , Jiangxin Dong , Jinhui Tang , Jinshan Pan

Due to the increase in computational resources and accessibility of data, an increase in large, deep learning models trained on copious amounts of multi-modal data using self-supervised or semi-supervised learning have emerged. These…

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Multi-modal image registration plays a critical role in precision medicine but faces challenges from non-linear intensity relationships and local optima. While deep learning models enable rapid inference, they often suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Boya Wang , Ruizhe Li , Chao Chen , Xin Chen

The development of modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, particularly diffusion-based models employed in computer vision and image generation tasks, is undergoing a paradigmatic shift in development methodologies. Traditionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Sajjad Abdoli , Freeman Lewin , Gediminas Vasiliauskas , Fabian Schonholz

Accurate delineation of individual cells in microscopy videos is essential for studying cellular dynamics, yet separating touching or overlapping instances remains a persistent challenge. Although foundation-model for segmentation such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Thomas Mendelson , Joshua Francois , Galit Lahav , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a critical imaging modality due to its all-weather operational capability. Although recent advances in self-supervised learning and masked image modeling (MIM) have enabled SAR foundation models, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qiwei Ma , Xukun Lu , Wang Liu , Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using image-level labels. Existing methods typically entangle semantic recognition and object localization, which often leads models to focus exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qingze He , Fagui Liu , Dengke Zhang , Qingmao Wei , Quan Tang

Existing deep learning methods for remote sensing image fusion often suffer from poor generalization when applied to unseen datasets due to the limited availability of real training data and the domain gap between different satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yongchuan Cui , Peng Liu , Yi Zeng

While large-scale visual foundation models (VFMs) exhibit strong generalization across diverse visual domains, their potential for single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Chuang Yu , Jinmiao Zhao , Yunpeng Liu , Yaokun Li , Xiujun Shu , Yuanhao Feng , Bo Wang , Yimian Dai , Xiangyu Yue

Vision systems to see and reason about the compositional nature of visual scenes are fundamental to understanding our world. The complex relations between objects and their locations, ambiguities, and variations in the real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Muhammad Awais , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Hisham Cholakkal , Mubarak Shah , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

We propose a novel approach that adapts hierarchical vision foundation models for real-time ultrasound image segmentation. Existing ultrasound segmentation methods often struggle with adaptability to new tasks, relying on costly manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xiaoran Zhang , Eric Z. Chen , Lin Zhao , Xiao Chen , Yikang Liu , Boris Maihe , James S. Duncan , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a critical imaging modality in clinical diagnosis and research, yet its complexity and heterogeneity hinder scalable, generalizable machine learning. Although foundation models have revolutionized language and…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving towards artificial general intelligence, which refers to the ability of an AI system to perform a wide range of tasks and exhibit a level of intelligence similar to that of a human being. This is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Yawen Cui , Guanjie Huang , Weilin Lin , Yiqian Yang , Yuehong Hu

The rapid development of Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), particularly Vision Transformers (ViT) and Segment Anything Model (SAM), has sparked significant advances in the field of medical image analysis. These models have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Pengchen Liang , Bin Pu , Haishan Huang , Yiwei Li , Hualiang Wang , Weibo Ma , Qing Chang

Material classification has emerged as a critical task in computer vision and graphics, supporting the assignment of accurate material properties to a wide range of digital and real-world applications. While traditionally framed as an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qingran Lin , Fengwei Yang , Chaolun Zhu

While recent vision-and-language models (VLMs) like CLIP are a powerful tool for analyzing text and images in a shared semantic space, they do not explicitly model the hierarchical nature of the set of texts which may describe an image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Morris Alper , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

Current state-of-the-art methods for panoptic segmentation require an immense amount of annotated training data that is both arduous and expensive to obtain posing a significant challenge for their widespread adoption. Concurrently, recent…

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