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10 papers

cs.CV2026

Texture-Shape Bias Balancing for Robust Synthetic-to-Real Semantic Segmentation in Automotive NIR Imagery

Felix Stillger, Ben Hamscher, Lukas Hahn +3

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental component of visual perception in modern automotive systems, enabling pixel-level scene understanding. Near-Infrared imaging (NIR) offers sta…

cs.CV2026

Out-of-Distribution Object Detection in Street Scenes via Synthetic Outlier Exposure and Transfer Learning

Sadia Ilyas, Annika Mütze, Klaus Friedrichs +2

Out-of-distribution (OOD) object detection is an important yet underexplored task. A reliable object detector should be able to handle OOD objects by localizing and correctly class…

cs.CV2025

On the Influence of Shape, Texture and Color for Learning Semantic Segmentation

Annika Mütze, Natalie Grabowsky, Edgar Heinert +2

Recent research has investigated the shape and texture biases of pre-trained deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification. Those works test how much a trained DNN relies on…

cs.CL2025

Decomposing and Revising What Language Models Generate

Zhichao Yan, Jiaoyan Chen, Jiapu Wang +3

Attribution is crucial in question answering (QA) with Large Language Models (LLMs).SOTA question decomposition-based approaches use long form answers to generate questions for ret…

cs.CV2025

Transferring Styles for Reduced Texture Bias and Improved Robustness in Semantic Segmentation Networks

Ben Hamscher, Edgar Heinert, Annika Mütze +2

Recent research has investigated the shape and texture biases of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification which influence their generalization capabilities and robustnes…

cs.LG2025

Contrast All the Time: Learning Time Series Representation from Temporal Consistency

Abdul-Kazeem Shamba, Kerstin Bach, Gavin Taylor

Representation learning for time series using contrastive learning has emerged as a critical technique for improving the performance of downstream tasks. To advance this effective…