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Semantic outdoor scene understanding based on 3D LiDAR point clouds is a challenging task for autonomous driving due to the sparse and irregular data structure. This paper takes advantages of the uneven range distribution of different LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Tzu-Hsuan Chen , Tian Sheuan Chang

Semantic segmentation in bird's eye view (BEV) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. Previous methods usually follow an end-to-end pipeline, directly predicting the BEV segmentation map from monocular RGB inputs. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tianhao Zhao , Yongcan Chen , Yu Wu , Tianyang Liu , Bo Du , Peilun Xiao , Shi Qiu , Hongda Yang , Guozhen Li , Yi Yang , Yutian Lin

Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling machines to understand and interpret visual scenes at a pixel level. While traditional segmentation methods have achieved remarkable success, their generalization to diverse scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Philip Hughes , Larry Burns , Luke Adams

In surgical procedures, correct instrument counting is essential. Instance segmentation is a location method that locates not only an object's bounding box but also each pixel's specific details. However, obtaining mask-level annotations is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zhen Sun , Huan Xu , Jinlin Wu , Zhen Chen , Zhen Lei , Hongbin Liu

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) semantic segmentation is becoming crucial in autonomous driving systems. It realizes ego-vehicle surrounding environment perception by projecting 2D multi-view images into 3D world space. Recently, BEV segmentation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jian Sun , Yuqi Dai , Chi-Man Vong , Qing Xu , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Lei He , Keqiang Li

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to obtain high-level semantic representation on low-level visual features without manual annotations. Most existing methods are bottom-up approaches that try to group pixels into regions based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhaoyuan Yin , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Xianzhe Xu , Hanling Zhang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Semantic segmentation benefits robotics related applications especially autonomous driving. Most of the research on semantic segmentation is only on increasing the accuracy of segmentation models with little attention to computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mennatullah Siam , Mostafa Gamal , Moemen Abdel-Razek , Senthil Yogamani , Martin Jagersand

This paper proposes a novel method for high-quality image segmentation of both objects and scenes. Inspired by the dilation and erosion operations in morphological image processing techniques, the pixel-level image segmentation problems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hao He , Xiangtai Li , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Lubin Weng , Zhouchen Lin , Shiming Xiang

Diffusion models and multi-scale features are essential components in semantic segmentation tasks that deal with remote-sensing images. They contribute to improved segmentation boundaries and offer significant contextual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Qi Zhang , Guohua Geng , Longquan Yan , Pengbo Zhou , Zhaodi Li , Kang Li , Qinglin Liu

Semantic segmentation, as a basic tool for intelligent interpretation of remote sensing images, plays a vital role in many Earth Observation (EO) applications. Nowadays, accurate semantic segmentation of remote sensing images remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Libo Wang , Dongxu Li , Sijun Dong , Xiaoliang Meng , Xiaokang Zhang , Danfeng Hong

Semantic segmentation, vital for applications ranging from autonomous driving to robotics, faces significant challenges in domains where collecting large annotated datasets is difficult or prohibitively expensive. In such contexts, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Nico Catalano , Matteo Matteucci

This paper addresses the task of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) visual geo-localization, which aims to match images of the same geographic target taken by different platforms, i.e., UAVs and satellites. In general, the key to achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Shishen Li , Cuiwei Liu , Huaijun Qiu , Zhaokui Li

This paper presents a vision-only autonomous flight system for small UAVs operating in controlled indoor environments. The system combines semantic segmentation with monocular depth estimation to enable obstacle avoidance, scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sebastian Mocanu , Emil Slusanschi , Marius Leordeanu

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in semantic segmentation. Yet, it remains a challenging task to apply segmentation techniques to video-based applications. Specifically, the high throughput of video streams, the sheer cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Yule Li , Jianping Shi , Dahua Lin

Semantic segmentation is applied extensively in autonomous driving and intelligent transportation with methods that highly demand spatial and semantic information. Here, an STDC-MA network is proposed to meet these demands. First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Xiaochun Lei , Linjun Lu , Zetao Jiang , Zhaoting Gong , Chang Lu , Jiaming Liang

Traditional transformer-based semantic segmentation relies on quantized embeddings. However, our analysis reveals that autoencoder accuracy on segmentation mask using quantized embeddings (e.g. VQ-VAE) is 8% lower than continuous-valued…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Masud Ahmed , Zahid Hasan , Syed Arefinul Haque , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Sanjay Purushotham , Suya You , Nirmalya Roy

Semantic segmentation is one of the core tasks in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to accurately classify each pixel in an image. The traditional Unet model achieves efficient feature extraction and fusion through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xuan Li , Quanchao Lu , Yankaiqi Li , Muqing Li , Yijiashun Qi

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision with wide-ranging applications, including autonomous driving and robotics. While RGB-based methods have achieved strong performance with CNNs and Transformers, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Fuqiang Gu , Yuanke Li , Xianlei Long , Kangping Ji , Chao Chen , Qingyi Gu , Zhenliang Ni

Video semantic segmentation (VSS) is a computationally expensive task due to the per-frame prediction for videos of high frame rates. In recent work, compact models or adaptive network strategies have been proposed for efficient VSS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yubin Hu , Yuze He , Yanghao Li , Jisheng Li , Yuxing Han , Jiangtao Wen , Yong-Jin Liu