Deep learning improves PS pixel selection in SAR interferometry.
problem Selecting persistent scatterer pixels for geophysical parameter estimation in multi-temporal SAR interferometry.
method Proposed two deep learning architectures: CNN-ISS and CLSTM-ISS trained on phase history to classify PS and non-PS pixels.
result CLSTM-ISS outperforms conventional methods in PS pixel selection and classification accuracy.
Superpixel-mix enhances reliability in semantic segmentation.
problem Improving reliability in real-world semantic segmentation.
method Superpixel-mix, a new data augmentation method with teacher-student consistency training.
result Superpixel-mix achieves state-of-the-art results in semi-supervised semantic segmentation.
Paper improves robustness of semantic segmentation models.
problem Improving robustness of semantic segmentation models for safer interactions.
method Analyzes and corrects softmax function mappings to improve model robustness.
result Improves robustness with minimal performance impact and code changes.
Semantic segmentation was seen as a challenging computer vision problem few years ago. Due to recent advancements in deep learning, relatively accurate solutions are now possible for its use in automated driving. In this paper, the semantic segmentation problem is explored from the perspective of automated driving. Mos…
GSANet improves semantic segmentation accuracy with selective and global attention.
problem Semantic segmentation accuracy improvement.
method Global and selective attention mechanism with ASPP and sparsemax.
result GSANet achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on ADE20k and Cityscapes datasets.
Paper proposes a weak supervision technique for CNN semantic segmentation of lung diseases using partially annotated data.
problem Creating annotated datasets for semantic segmentation of lung diseases is laborious and time-consuming.
method Proposes a weak supervision technique that utilizes partially annotated datasets to improve CNN semantic segmentation accuracy.
result Significantly improved segmentation accuracy using partially annotated datasets.
Paper proposes a method to improve semantic segmentation for fisheye urban driving images.
problem Semantic segmentation for fisheye urban driving images is challenging due to distortion and lack of large datasets.
method A seven degrees of freedom augmentation method is proposed to transform rectilinear images into fisheye images.
result Training with seven-DoF augmentation improves model accuracy and robustness against distorted fisheye data.
Improved segmentation model adaptation for new domains.
problem Reduced performance of pre-trained models on new domains.
method Calculated soft-label prototypes and predicted closest to class probabilities.
result Significant performance improvements on synthetic-to-real segmentation.
MCFNet recovers spatial detail and fuses it with semantic information for real-time segmentation.
problem Recovering spatial detail information and fusing it with semantic information in real-time.
method Proposes a new architecture (MCFNet) with feature refinement and fusion modules, and a gating unit.
result Achieves competitive performance with high speed (75.5% mIOU, 151.3 FPS on Cityscapes).
Unsupervised segmentation learns features without labels, improving accuracy.
problem Discover and localize semantically meaningful categories in images without annotations.
method Separates feature learning from cluster compactification; distills unsupervised features into discrete semantic labels using a contrastive loss function.
result Significant improvement over prior state of the art on semantic segmentation challenges.
Deep learning improves microscale object segmentation.
problem Accurate estimation of crowded microscale objects.
method Deep learning model for semantic segmentation.
result High mean Intersection Over Union score of 0.91.
This survey analyzes deep learning methods for real-time semantic image segmentation.
problem Efficient and accurate semantic image segmentation for real-time applications.
method Comprehensive analysis of deep learning architectures and techniques for fast inference.
result Best-performing architectures and techniques for real-time semantic image segmentation.
Generative model creates realistic scenes from pixel-wise labels.
problem Creating photo-realistic scenes from pixel-wise labels.
method Semantic bottleneck GAN model combining conditional and unconditional generation networks.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art models in unsupervised image synthesis.
This paper proposes synthetic augmentation for nuclei image segmentation in medical pathology.
problem Rare and time-consuming labeling of tumor nuclei images for semantic segmentation.
method Label-to-image translation to generate synthetic images.
result Synthetic augmentation improves segmentation accuracy.
Deep convolutional semantic segmentation (DCSS) learning doesn't converge to an optimal local minimum with random parameters initializations; a pre-trained model on the same domain becomes necessary to achieve convergence.In this work, we propose a joint cooperative end-to-end learning method for DCSS. It addresses man…
OTSeg uses multi-prompt Sinkhorn attention to improve zero-shot semantic segmentation.
problem Leveraging pre-trained CLIP knowledge to align text embeddings with pixel embeddings.
method OTSeg employs Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn (MPS) and Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn Attention (MPSA) to enhance semantic feature matching.
result OTSeg achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation tasks.
Panoptic-DeepLab achieves state-of-the-art results in panoptic segmentation.
problem Panoptic segmentation challenges in computer vision.
method Bottom-up, single-shot approach with dual-ASPP and dual-decoder structures.
result Panoptic-DeepLab sets new state-of-the-art results on Cityscapes benchmarks.
In order to cope with the increased data volumes generated by modern radio interferometers such as LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) or SKA (Square Kilometre Array), fast and efficient calibration algorithms are essential. Traditional radio interferometric calibration is performed using nonlinear optimization techniques such…
CAggNet improves medical image segmentation by fusing coarse and fine features.
problem Medical image segmentation accuracy and efficiency.
method Crossing Aggregation Network with nested skip connections and weighted aggregation.
result CAggNet achieves more accurate and efficient segmentation compared to existing methods.
A novel feedbackward approach for semantic segmentation reduces parameter count.
problem Semantic segmentation challenges in terms of model complexity and performance.
method Reverse-direction encoder-decoder architecture using the same network for both encoding and decoding.
result Significantly outperforms other models using only 13 VGG-16 layers, achieving higher IoU scores.
Algorithm adapts pretrained semantic segmentation models to new domains.
problem Adapting pretrained models to new, unlabeled domains without source data.
method Learn prototypical distribution in embedding space, align target domain with source domain.
result Method achieves competitive performance on benchmark tasks.
ZegOT uses optimal transport to zero-shot segment images with text prompts.
problem Zero-shot semantic segmentation with limited image-text alignment knowledge.
method ZegOT uses optimal transport to match multiple text prompts with frozen image embeddings.
result ZegOT achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation.
The paper reviews techniques for detecting errors in semantic segmentation models.
problem Detecting false positives and false negatives in semantic segmentation models.
method Uncertainty quantification techniques applied to semantic segmentation.
result Techniques for detecting false positives and false negatives are proposed and discussed.
GIBLy adds geometric priors to 3D segmentation models, improving performance with minimal overhead.
problem Lack of explicit geometric information in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method Introduces GIBLy, a lightweight geometric inductive bias layer that integrates learnable geometric priors into existing 3D segmentation pipelines.
result Consistent performance gains across multiple benchmarks, including up to +11.5% mIoU on TS40K with PTV3.
Novel framework for whole-slide blood cell segmentation.
problem Semantic segmentation of whole-slide blood cell images.
method Convolutional encoder-decoder framework with VGG-16 feature extraction.
result Outstanding accuracy (97.18% global accuracy) in classwise segmentation.
The automatic digitizing of paper maps is a significant and challenging task for both academia and industry. As an important procedure of map digitizing, the semantic segmentation section mainly relies on manual visual interpretation with low efficiency. In this study, we select urban planning maps as a representative …
Enhances uncertainty estimation in medical image segmentation.
problem Frequency-related noise in medical imaging leads to biased uncertainty estimates.
method Extends MC-Dropout to the frequency domain for better uncertainty estimation.
result MC-Frequency Dropout improves calibration and uncertainty in semantic segmentation.
Improves U-Net for scale equivariance in semantic segmentation.
problem Improving generalization in semantic segmentation tasks with varying scales.
method Introduces Scale Equivariant U-Net (SEU-Net) with carefully applied subsampling and upsampling layers and scale-equivariant layers.
result Significantly improved generalization to different scales compared to U-Net and scale-equivariant architecture without upsampling.
Decision making in automated driving is highly specific to the environment and thus semantic segmentation plays a key role in recognizing the objects in the environment around the car. Pixel level classification once considered a challenging task which is now becoming mature to be productized in a car. However, semanti…
The morphometry of a kidney tumor revealed by contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography (CT) imaging is an important factor in clinical decision making surrounding the lesion's diagnosis and treatment. Quantitative study of the relationship between kidney tumor morphology and clinical outcomes is difficult due to data scar…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are successfully used for various visual perception tasks including bounding box object detection, semantic segmentation, optical flow, depth estimation and visual SLAM. Generally these tasks are independently explored and modeled. In this paper, we present a joint multi-task network…
Real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles on FPGA reduces latency and power consumption.
problem Efficient real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles.
method Compressed ENet architecture, FPGA deployment, batch processing, filter reduction, quantization-aware training.
result Reduced latency to 3 ms per image with batch size of ten and 40% resource utilization.
SemGANs generate pixel-level accurate semantic images.
problem Generating semantic images with pixel-level accuracy.
method Semantic Generative Adversarial Networks (SemGANs).
result SemGANs outperform standard GANs in semantic image generation tasks.
Proposes MorphMine for unsupervised morpheme segmentation to improve word embeddings.
problem Lack of semantic information in word-level analysis for infrequent and out-of-vocabulary words.
method MorphMine applies a parsimony criterion to hierarchically segment words into the fewest number of morphemes.
result MorphMine segments words into human-verified morphemes and improves word embedding quality.
SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.
problem Lack of resources and transparency in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method SCENE-Net uses signature shapes identified via GENEOs to achieve semantic segmentation with minimal resources.
result SCENE-Net achieves comparable IoU to state-of-the-art methods with less data and computational resources.
Building a large image dataset with high-quality object masks for semantic segmentation is costly and time consuming. In this paper, we introduce a principled semi-supervised framework that only uses a small set of fully supervised images (having semantic segmentation labels and box labels) and a set of images with onl…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are propelling advances in a range of different computer vision tasks such as object detection and object segmentation. Their success has motivated research in applications of such models for medical image analysis. If CNN-based models are to be helpful in a medical context, they ne…
This paper adapts PATE for semantic segmentation while maintaining privacy.
problem Preserving privacy in medical machine learning, especially for sensitive information.
method Adapting PATE for semantic segmentation using low-dimensional representations and low-sensitivity queries.
result An Autoencoder-based PATE variant achieves a higher Dice coefficient for the same privacy guarantee.
We introduce a novel loss max-pooling concept for handling imbalanced training data distributions, applicable as alternative loss layer in the context of deep neural networks for semantic image segmentation. Most real-world semantic segmentation datasets exhibit long tail distributions with few object categories compri…
Study improves semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds for autonomous vehicles.
problem Semantic understanding of 3D LiDAR data for autonomous vehicles.
method Image-based semantic segmentation architectures, network size optimization, improved point cloud projection, soft Dice loss, reduced weight-sharing convolution.
result 3.2% increase in mIoU segmentation performance with 42% reduction in inference time.
Semantic segmentation remains a computationally intensive algorithm for embedded deployment even with the rapid growth of computation power. Thus efficient network design is a critical aspect especially for applications like automated driving which requires real-time performance. Recently, there has been a lot of resea…
LatticeNet segments 3D point clouds faster and more efficiently.
problem Challenges in applying CNNs to 3D point cloud data.
method Embeds point cloud geometry into a permutohedral lattice for fast convolutions.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in 3D segmentation.
CBDA improves active learning for semantic segmentation, especially with imbalanced classes.
problem Class imbalance degrades performance in domain adaptive active learning.
method Class Balanced Dynamic Acquisition (CBDA) selects more balanced labels for active learning.
result CBDA increases minority class performance and outperforms baselines by 0.6-2.4 mIoU.
We present a method that "meta" classifies whether seg-ments predicted by a semantic segmentation neural networkintersect with the ground truth. For this purpose, we employ measures of dispersion for predicted pixel-wise class probability distributions, like classification entropy, that yield heat maps of the input sce…
We propose a semantic segmentation model that exploits rotation and reflection symmetries. We demonstrate significant gains in sample efficiency due to increased weight sharing, as well as improvements in robustness to symmetry transformations. The group equivariant CNN framework is extended for segmentation by introdu…
While deep learning is remarkably successful on perceptual tasks, it was also shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations of the input. These perturbations denote noise added to the input that was generated specifically to fool the system while being quasi-imperceptible for humans. More severely, there even exi…
LEAK learns from mistakes to improve point cloud segmentation.
problem Improving point cloud semantic segmentation performance.
method Coarse-to-fine clustering, class-conditional prototypical feature alignment, fairness weighting.
result State-of-the-art performances on different architectures, datasets, and tasks.
LangDA improves domain adaptation for semantic segmentation by learning context-aware scene descriptions.
problem Improving domain adaptation for semantic segmentation with dense prediction tasks.
method LangDA learns contextual relationships between objects via VLM-generated scene descriptions and aligns image features with text representation.
result LangDA sets new state-of-the-art across three DASS benchmarks, outperforming existing methods.