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Panoptic segmentation is a scene parsing task which unifies semantic segmentation and instance segmentation into one single task. However, the current state-of-the-art studies did not take too much concern on inference time. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Chia-Yuan Chang , Shuo-En Chang , Pei-Yung Hsiao , Li-Chen Fu

Semantic scene parsing is suffering from the fact that pixel-level annotations are hard to be collected. To tackle this issue, we propose a Point-based Distance Metric Learning (PDML) in this paper. PDML does not require dense annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Rui Qian , Yunchao Wei , Honghui Shi , Jiachen Li , Jiaying Liu , Thomas Huang

Video Instance Segmentation is a fundamental computer vision task that deals with segmenting and tracking object instances across a video sequence. Most existing methods typically accomplish this task by employing a multi-stage top-down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jyoti Kini , Mubarak Shah

Tiny object detection plays a vital role in drone surveillance, remote sensing, and autonomous systems, enabling the identification of small targets across vast landscapes. However, existing methods suffer from inefficient feature leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zhangchi Hu , Peixi Wu , Jie Chen , Huyue Zhu , Yijun Wang , Yansong Peng , Hebei Li , Xiaoyan Sun

This paper proposes a mask optimization method for improving the quality of object removal using image inpainting. While many inpainting methods are trained with a set of random masks, a target for inpainting may be an object, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kodai Shimosato , Norimichi Ukita

Graph-based medical image segmentation represents anatomical structures using boundary graphs, providing fixed-topology landmarks and inherent population-level correspondences. However, their clinical adoption has been hindered by a major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Nicolás Gaggion , Maria J. Ledesma-Carbayo , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou , Enzo Ferrante

We present a novel 3D object detection framework, named IPOD, based on raw point cloud. It seeds object proposal for each point, which is the basic element. This paradigm provides us with high recall and high fidelity of information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Zetong Yang , Yanan Sun , Shu Liu , Xiaoyong Shen , Jiaya Jia

As a promising scheme of self-supervised learning, masked autoencoding has significantly advanced natural language processing and computer vision. Inspired by this, we propose a neat scheme of masked autoencoders for point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yatian Pang , Wenxiao Wang , Francis E. H. Tay , Wei Liu , Yonghong Tian , Li Yuan

Recently, single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection technology has attracted widespread attention. Different from most existing deep learning-based methods that focus on improving network architectures, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jinmiao Zhao , Zelin Shi , Chuang Yu , Yunpeng Liu , Yimian Dai

Infrared small target detection plays a crucial role in military reconnaissance and air defense systems. However,existing low-rank sparse based methods still face high computational complexity when dealing with low-contrast small targets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Ke-Xin Li

Recently, progress in acquisition equipment such as LiDAR sensors has enabled sensing increasingly spacious outdoor 3D environments. Making sense of such 3D acquisitions requires fine-grained scene understanding, such as constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Cedric Perauer , Laurenz Adrian Heidrich , Haifan Zhang , Matthias Nießner , Anastasiia Kornilova , Alexey Artemov

Masked Autoencoders learn strong visual representations and achieve state-of-the-art results in several independent modalities, yet very few works have addressed their capabilities in multi-modality settings. In this work, we focus on point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Anthony Chen , Kevin Zhang , Renrui Zhang , Zihan Wang , Yuheng Lu , Yandong Guo , Shanghang Zhang

Point cloud registration involves aligning one point cloud with another or with a three-dimensional (3D) model, enabling the integration of multimodal data into a unified representation. This is essential in applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mehdi Maboudi , Said Harb , Jackson Ferrao , Kourosh Khoshelham , Yelda Turkan , Karam Mawas

We introduce PointGauss, a novel point cloud-guided framework for real-time multi-object segmentation in Gaussian Splatting representations. Unlike existing methods that suffer from prolonged initialization and limited multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wentao Sun , Hanqing Xu , Quanyun Wu , Dedong Zhang , Yiping Chen , Lingfei Ma , John S. Zelek , Jonathan Li

We present Adaptive Instance Selection network architecture for class-agnostic instance segmentation. Given an input image and a point $(x, y)$, it generates a mask for the object located at $(x, y)$. The network adapts to the input point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Konstantin Sofiiuk , Olga Barinova , Anton Konushin

Driven by the growing need for Oriented Object Detection (OOD), learning from point annotations under a weakly-supervised framework has emerged as a promising alternative to costly and laborious manual labeling. In this paper, we discuss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Teng Zhang , Ziqian Fan , Mingxin Liu , Xin Zhang , Xudong Lu , Wentong Li , Yue Zhou , Yi Yu , Xiang Li , Junchi Yan , Xue Yang

The goal of interactive segmentation is to assist users in producing segmentation masks as fast and as accurately as possible. Interactions have to be simple and intuitive and the number of interactions required to produce a satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Camille Dupont , Yanis Ouakrim , Quoc Cuong Pham

Point cloud registration is a key task in many computational fields. Previous correspondence matching based methods require the inputs to have distinctive geometric structures to fit a 3D rigid transformation according to point-wise sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Xu , Shuaicheng Liu , Guangfu Wang , Guanghui Liu , Bing Zeng

Infrared small target detection is a challenging task due to its unique characteristics (e.g., small, dim, shapeless and changeable). Recently published CNN-based methods have achieved promising performance with heavy feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yongxian Liu , Boyang Li , Ting Liu , Zaiping Lin , Wei An

Recently end-to-end scene text spotting has become a popular research topic due to its advantages of global optimization and high maintainability in real applications. Most methods attempt to develop various region of interest (RoI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Liang Qiao , Ying Chen , Zhanzhan Cheng , Yunlu Xu , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu