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20202026
most citedCAVER: Cross-Modal View-Mixed Transformer for Bi-Modal Salient Object Detection

224 citations · 538 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.CV2026

Seeing Through the Glare: A Multi-Source Benchmark and Ocular-Adaptive Pixel MeanFlow for Eyeglass Reflection Removal

Tao Liu, Youwei Pang, Kailai Zhou +7

Eyeglass reflection removal is important across smartphone imaging, video conferencing, and other face-centric visual applications. The task is challenging because reflections rang…

cs.CV2026

Hard, Yet Reducible: Controlled Forward Transfer for Synthetic Degradation Curation

Chunming He, Kailai Zhou, Jiaming Zuo +6

Selecting synthetic degradations for dense prediction requires an estimate of their training utility, the generalization gain they bring under a finite training budget. Clean and d…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Pixel Overlap: A Framework for Decomposing Segmentation Evaluation Metrics

Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao

Evaluation metrics are central to binary target segmentation because they determine how progress is measured, compared, and interpreted. In this paper, target denotes the task-defi…

cs.CV2026

Towards Large Model Feature Coding

Youwei Pang, Changsheng Gao, Dong Liu +2

Large models have delivered remarkable performance across a wide range of perception and generation tasks, yet practical deployment is increasingly constrained by computational and…

cs.CV2026

ConceptSeg-R1: Segment Any Concept via Meta-Reinforcement Learning

Yuan Zhao, Youwei Pang, Jiaming Zuo +10

Recent progress in promptable segmentation has shifted visual perception from object-level localization toward concept-level understanding. However, the notion of a concept remains…

cs.CV2025

Rethinking Evaluation of Infrared Small Target Detection

Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Lihe Zhang +4

As an essential vision task, infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has seen significant advancements through deep learning. However, critical limitations in current evaluation pr…

cs.CV2025

UniMRSeg: Unified Modality-Relax Segmentation via Hierarchical Self-Supervised Compensation

Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang, Chenyang Yu +5

Multi-modal image segmentation faces real-world deployment challenges from incomplete/corrupted modalities degrading performance. While existing methods address training-inference…

cs.CV2025

UniMMAD: Unified Multi-Modal and Multi-Class Anomaly Detection via MoE-Driven Feature Decompression

Yuan Zhao, Youwei Pang, Lihe Zhang +4

Existing anomaly detection (AD) methods often treat the modality and class as independent factors. Although this paradigm has enriched the development of AD research branches and p…

cs.CV2025

Power Battery Detection

Xiaoqi Zhao, Peiqian Cao, Chenyang Yu +10

Power batteries are essential components in electric vehicles, where internal structural defects can pose serious safety risks. We conduct a comprehensive study on a new task, powe…

cs.CV2024

Inspiring the Next Generation of Segment Anything Models: Comprehensively Evaluate SAM and SAM 2 with Diverse Prompts Towards Context-Dependent Concepts under Different Scenes

Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang, Shijie Chang +10

As large-scale foundation models trained on billions of image--mask pairs covering a vast diversity of scenes, objects, and contexts, SAM and its upgraded version, SAM~2, have sign…

cs.CV2024

Beyond Mask: Rethinking Guidance Types in Few-shot Segmentation

Shijie Chang, Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao +2

Existing few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods mainly focus on prototype feature generation and the query-support matching mechanism. As a crucial prompt for generating prototype fea…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Spider: A Unified Framework for Context-dependent Concept Segmentation

Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang, Wei Ji +4

Different from the context-independent (CI) concepts such as human, car, and airplane, context-dependent (CD) concepts require higher visual understanding ability, such as camoufla…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Multi-view Aggregation Network for Dichotomous Image Segmentation

Qian Yu, Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang +2

Dichotomous Image Segmentation (DIS) has recently emerged towards high-precision object segmentation from high-resolution natural images. When designing an effective DIS model, the…

cs.CV2023

Towards Automatic Power Battery Detection: New Challenge, Benchmark Dataset and Baseline

Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang, Zhenyu Chen +5

We conduct a comprehensive study on a new task named power battery detection (PBD), which aims to localize the dense cathode and anode plates endpoints from X-ray images to evaluat…

cs.CV2023

Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation

Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Jiaming Zuo +2

Recently, the emergence of the large-scale vision-language model (VLM), such as CLIP, has opened the way towards open-world object perception. Many works have explored the utilizat…

cs.CV2023★ 106 cited

ZoomNeXt: A Unified Collaborative Pyramid Network for Camouflaged Object Detection

Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Tian-Zhu Xiang +2

Recent camouflaged object detection (COD) attempts to segment objects visually blended into their surroundings, which is extremely complex and difficult in real-world scenarios. Ap…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

ComPtr: Towards Diverse Bi-source Dense Prediction Tasks via A Simple yet General Complementary Transformer

Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Lihe Zhang +1

Deep learning (DL) has advanced the field of dense prediction, while gradually dissolving the inherent barriers between different tasks. However, most existing works focus on desig…

cs.CV2023★ 81 cited

MSNet: Multi-scale in Multi-scale Subtraction Network for Medical Image Segmentation

Xiaoqi Zhao, Hongpeng Jia, Youwei Pang +5

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for early medical diagnosis. Most existing methods are based on U-shape structure and use element-wise addition or concatenation to…

cs.CV2023

Towards Diverse Binary Segmentation via A Simple yet General Gated Network

Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang, Lihe Zhang +2

In many binary segmentation tasks, most CNNs-based methods use a U-shape encoder-decoder network as their basic structure. They ignore two key problems when the encoder exchanges i…

cs.CV2023

Adaptive Multi-source Predictor for Zero-shot Video Object Segmentation

Xiaoqi Zhao, Shijie Chang, Youwei Pang +3

Static and moving objects often occur in real-life videos. Most video object segmentation methods only focus on extracting and exploiting motion cues to perceive moving objects. On…

cs.CV2022

Few-Shot Segmentation via Rich Prototype Generation and Recurrent Prediction Enhancement

Hongsheng Wang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang +1

Prototype learning and decoder construction are the keys for few-shot segmentation. However, existing methods use only a single prototype generation mode, which can not cope with t…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

Zoom In and Out: A Mixed-scale Triplet Network for Camouflaged Object Detection

Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Tian-Zhu Xiang +2

The recently proposed camouflaged object detection (COD) attempts to segment objects that are visually blended into their surroundings, which is extremely complex and difficult in…

cs.CV2022★ 30 cited

Joint Learning of Salient Object Detection, Depth Estimation and Contour Extraction

Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang, Lihe Zhang +1

Benefiting from color independence, illumination invariance and location discrimination attributed by the depth map, it can provide important supplemental information for extractin…

cs.CV2021★ 224 cited

CAVER: Cross-Modal View-Mixed Transformer for Bi-Modal Salient Object Detection

Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Lihe Zhang +1

Most of the existing bi-modal (RGB-D and RGB-T) salient object detection methods utilize the convolution operation and construct complex interweave fusion structures to achieve cro…