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Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in multimedia processing, which can be used for analyzing, understanding, editing contents of images and videos, among others. To accelerate the analysis of multimedia data, existing segmentation…

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Multimodal information processing has become increasingly important for enhancing image classification performance. However, the intricate and implicit dependencies across different modalities often hinder conventional methods from…

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Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong reasoning performance by generating long chains of thought (CoTs), yet only a small fraction of these traces meaningfully contributes to answer prediction, while the majority contains repetitive…

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Semantic segmentation is a vital problem in computer vision. Recently, a common solution to semantic segmentation is the end-to-end convolution neural network, which is much more accurate than traditional methods.Recently, the decoders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Hao Guo , Hongbiao Si , Guilin Jiang , Wei Zhang , Zhiyan Liu , Xuanyi Zhu , Xulong Zhang , Yang Liu

We present a technique for adding global context to deep convolutional networks for semantic segmentation. The approach is simple, using the average feature for a layer to augment the features at each location. In addition, we study several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Wei Liu , Andrew Rabinovich , Alexander C. Berg

Real-time semantic segmentation has received considerable attention due to growing demands in many practical applications, such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, etc. Existing real-time segmentation approaches often utilize feature fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Jingjing Xiong , Lai-Man Po , Wing-Yin Yu , Chang Zhou , Pengfei Xian , Weifeng Ou

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Image semantic segmentation technology is one of the key technologies for intelligent systems to understand natural scenes. As one of the important research directions in the field of visual intelligence, this technology has broad…

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Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in medical image analysis, however its adoption in clinical practice is limited by a lack of interpretability. These models often make correct predictions without explaining their reasoning.…

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In this paper, we propose a Boundary-aware Graph Reasoning (BGR) module to learn long-range contextual features for semantic segmentation. Rather than directly construct the graph based on the backbone features, our BGR module explores a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Haoteng Tang , Haozhe Jia , Weidong Cai , Heng Huang , Yong Xia , Liang Zhan

Semantic segmentation is a pixel-level prediction task to classify each pixel of the input image. Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extremely successful in achieving excellent performances in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Nadeem Atif , Saquib Mazhar , Debajit Sarma , M. K. Bhuyan , Shaik Rafi Ahamed

Deep neural networks have shown exemplary performance on semantic scene understanding tasks on source domains, but due to the absence of style diversity during training, enhancing performance on unseen target domains using only single…

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As one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision, semantic segmentation plays an important role in real world applications. Although numerous deep learning models have made notable progress on several mainstream datasets with the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Bin Zhang , Shengjie Zhao , Rongqing Zhang

As an important research topic in computer vision, fine-grained classification which aims to recognition subordinate-level categories has attracted significant attention. We propose a novel region based ensemble learning network for…

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Spatial reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence. One key concept in spatial cognition is the Frame of Reference, which identifies the perspective of spatial expressions. Despite its significance, FoR has received limited…

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We propose the autofocus convolutional layer for semantic segmentation with the objective of enhancing the capabilities of neural networks for multi-scale processing. Autofocus layers adaptively change the size of the effective receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Yao Qin , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Siddharth Ancha , Jay Nanavati , Garrison Cottrell , Antonio Criminisi , Aditya Nori

Learning-based approaches for semantic segmentation have two inherent challenges. First, acquiring pixel-wise labels is expensive and time-consuming. Second, realistic segmentation datasets are highly unbalanced: some categories are much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Arantxa Casanova , Pedro O. Pinheiro , Negar Rostamzadeh , Christopher J. Pal

Existing deep learning approaches leave out the semantic cues that are crucial in semantic segmentation present in complex scenarios including cluttered backgrounds and translucent objects, etc. To handle these challenges, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Muhammad Ali , Mamoona Javaid , Mubashir Noman , Mustansar Fiaz , Salman Khan

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

Deep neural network-based semantic segmentation generally requires large-scale cost extensive annotations for training to obtain better performance. To avoid pixel-wise segmentation annotations which are needed for most methods, recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian