Publications related to Saliency Detection using Maximum Symmetric Surround

Modular segmentation, spatial analysis and visualization of volume electron microscopy datasets

Volume electron microscopy is the method of choice for the in situ interrogation of cellular ultrastructure at the nanometer scale, and with the increase in large raw image datasets generated, improving computational strategies for image segmentation and s ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Affordance segmentation of hand-occluded containers from exocentric images

Andrea Cavallaro

Visual affordance segmentation identifies the surfaces of an object an agent can interact with. Common challenges for the identification of affordances are the variety of the geometry and physical properties of these surfaces as well as occlusions. In this ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Crowding and the importance of grouping and segmentation processes in human vision

Alban Bornet

Human vision has evolved to make sense of a world in which elements almost never appear in isolation. Surprisingly, the recognition of an element in a visual scene is strongly limited by the presence of other nearby elements, a phenomenon known as visual c ...

EPFL2021

Spatial and temporal integration of visual features

Oh-Hyeon Choung

Visual processing can be seen as the integration and segmentation of features. Objects are composed of contours, integrated into shapes and segmented from other contours. Information also needs to be integrated to solve the ill-posed problems of vision. Fo ...

EPFL2021

Context-Aware Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Neural Networks

Mohammad Saeed Rad

Image super-resolution is a classic ill-posed computer vision and image processing problem, addressing the question of how to reconstruct a high-resolution image from its low-resolution counterpart. Current state-of-the-art methods have improved the perfor ...

EPFL2021

Probabilistic Atlases to Enforce Topological Constraints

Pascal Fua, Graham Knott, Pamuditha Udaranga Wickramasinghe

Probabilistic atlases (PAs) have long been used in standard segmentation approaches and, more recently, in conjunction with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, their use has been restricted to relatively standardized structures such as the brain ...

2019

Automated CT bone segmentation using statistical shape modelling and local template matching

Alexandre Terrier, Philippe Büchler, Alain Farron, Elham Taghizadeh

Accurate CT bone segmentation is essential to develop chair-side manufacturing of implants based on additive manufacturing. We herewith present an automated method able to accurately segment challenging bone regions, while simultaneously providing anatomic ...

2019

Learn to synthesize and synthesize to learn

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Mohammad Saeed Rad, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Seyedbehzad Bozorgtabar

Attribute guided face image synthesis aims to manipulate attributes on a face image. Most existing methods for image-to-image translation can either perform a fixed translation between any two image domains using a single attribute or require training data ...

2019

Using the Neurorobotics platform to explain global processing in visual crowding

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Alban Bornet

The Neurorobotics Platform of the Human Brain Project hosts many different large-scale models that can easily be connected with each other. Here, we linked a deep neural network for saliency computation to a spiking cortical model for visual segmentation ( ...

2018

Variational Methods for Human Modeling

Timur Bagautdinov

A large part of computer vision research is devoted to building models and algorithms aimed at understanding human appearance and behaviour from images and videos. Ultimately, we want to build automated systems that are at least as capable as people when i ...

EPFL2018

Crowding asymmetries explained by a model of image segmentation

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Alban Bornet, Adrien Christophe Doerig

In crowding, perception of a target deteriorates when neighboring flankers are presented. Flankers close to the fovea deteriorate performance less strongly than flankers presented peripherally, the well-known crowding asymmetries. For example, we presented ...

2017

Object segmentation and ground truth in 3D embryonic imaging

Andrew Charles Oates

Many questions in developmental biology depend on measuring the position and movement of individual cells within developing embryos. Yet, tools that provide this data are often challenged by high cell density and their accuracy is difficult to measure. Her ...

2016

Learning to Refine Object Segments

Pedro Henrique Oliveira Pinheiro, Ronan Collobert

Object segmentation requires both object-level information and low-level pixel data. This presents a challenge for feedforward networks: lower layers in convolutional nets capture rich spatial information, while upper layers encode object-level knowledge b ...

Springer2016

Individual and Inter-related Action Unit Detection in Videos for Affect Recognition

Anil Yuce

The human face has evolved to become the most important source of non-verbal information that conveys our affective, cognitive and mental state to others. Apart from human to human communication facial expressions have also become an indispensable componen ...

EPFL2016

Are All Pixels Equally Important? Towards Multi-Level Salient Object Detection

Gökhan Yildirim

When we look at our environment, we primarily pay attention to visually distinctive objects. We refer to these objects as visually important or salient. Our visual system dedicates most of its processing resources to analyzing these salient objects. An ana ...

EPFL2015

FASA: Fast, Accurate, and Size-Aware Salient Object Detection

Sabine Süsstrunk, Gökhan Yildirim

Fast and accurate salient-object detectors are important for various image processing and computer vision applications, such as adaptive compression and object segmentation. It is also desirable to have a detector that is aware of the position and the size ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Modeling the Importance of Faces in Natural Images

Sabine Süsstrunk, Appu Shaji, Gökhan Yildirim, Bin Jin, Cheryl Shaulya Lau

In this work we study the varying importance of faces in images. Face importance is found to be affected by the size and number of faces present. We collected a dataset of 152 face images with faces in different size and number of faces. We conducted a cro ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Locally Refinable Parametric Snakes

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

Shape segmentation is an active field of research in biomedical imaging. In this context, we present a new parameterization of a snake that is locally refinable. We introduce the possibility of locally increasing the approximation power of the parametric m ...

IEEE2015

NeuroMorph: A Toolset for the Morphometric Analysis and Visualization of 3D Models Derived from Electron Microscopy Image Stacks

Pascal Fua, Graham Knott, Corrado Cali, Biagio Nigro, Anne Alison Jorstad, Marta Wawrzyniak

Serial electron microscopy imaging is crucial for exploring the structure of cells and tissues. The development of block face scanning electron microscopy methods and their ability to capture large image stacks, some with near isotropic voxels, is proving ...

Humana Press2015

MBIS: Multivariate Bayesian Image Segmentation tool

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Subrahmanyam Venkata Ravi Mohana Sai Gorthi

We present MBIS (Multivariate Bayesian Image Segmentation tool), a clustering tool based on the mixture of multivariate normal distributions model. MBIS supports multichannel bias field correction based on a B-spline model. A second methodological novelty ...

Elsevier Ireland Ltd2014