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Arbitrary-shaped text detection is an important and challenging task in computer vision. Most existing methods require heavy data labeling efforts to produce polygon-level text region labels for supervised training. In order to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Mengbiao Zhao , Wei Feng , Fei Yin , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

It is challenging for weakly supervised object detection network to precisely predict the positions of the objects, since there are no instance-level category annotations. Most existing methods tend to solve this problem by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ke Yang , Dongsheng Li , Yong Dou

The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang

Training deep object detectors requires significant amount of human-annotated images with accurate object labels and bounding box coordinates, which are extremely expensive to acquire. Noisy annotations are much more easily accessible, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Junnan Li , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher , Steven Hoi

Weakly-supervised object detection attempts to limit the amount of supervision by dispensing the need for bounding boxes, but still assumes image-level labels on the entire training set. In this work, we study the problem of training an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Zhaohui Yang , Miaojing Shi , Chao Xu , Vittorio Ferrari , Yannis Avrithis

Most existing approaches to training object detectors rely on fully supervised learning, which requires the tedious manual annotation of object location in a training set. Recently there has been an increasing interest in developing weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Zhiyuan Shi , Parthipan Siva , Tao Xiang

Training object class detectors typically requires a large set of images with objects annotated by bounding boxes. However, manually drawing bounding boxes is very time consuming. In this paper we greatly reduce annotation time by proposing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Jasper R. R. Uijlings , Frank Keller , Vittorio Ferrari

Various methods have been proposed to detect objects while reducing the cost of data annotation. For instance, weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) methods rely only on image-level annotations during training. Unfortunately, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Eduardo Hugo Sanchez

Learning an object detector or retrieval requires a large data set with manual annotations. Such data sets are expensive and time consuming to create and therefore difficult to obtain on a large scale. In this work, we propose to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Elad Amrani , Rami Ben-Ari , Tal Hakim , Alex Bronstein

Pixel-wise annotations are notoriously labourious and costly to obtain in the medical domain. To mitigate this burden, weakly supervised approaches based on bounding box annotations-much easier to acquire-offer a practical alternative.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mélanie Gaillochet , Mehrdad Noori , Sahar Dastani , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

After learning a new object category from image-level annotations (with no object bounding boxes), humans are remarkably good at precisely localizing those objects. However, building good object localizers (i.e., detectors) currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zitian Chen , Zhiqiang Shen , Jiahui Yu , Erik Learned-Miller

Despite great progress in object detection, most existing methods work only on a limited set of object categories, due to the tremendous human effort needed for bounding-box annotations of training data. To alleviate the problem, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Mingfei Gao , Chen Xing , Juan Carlos Niebles , Junnan Li , Ran Xu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Training object class detectors typically requires a large set of images in which objects are annotated by bounding-boxes. However, manually drawing bounding-boxes is very time consuming. We propose a new scheme for training object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Jasper R. R. Uijlings , Frank Keller , Vittorio Ferrari

Weakly supervised object detection has recently received much attention, since it only requires image-level labels instead of the bounding-box labels consumed in strongly supervised learning. Nevertheless, the save in labeling expense is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Jiajie Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Rui Zhang

The growing demand for oriented object detection (OOD) across various domains has driven significant research in this area. However, the high cost of dataset annotation remains a major concern. Current mainstream OOD algorithms can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mingxin Liu , Peiyuan Zhang , Yuan Liu , Wei Zhang , Yue Zhou , Ning Liao , Ziyang Gong , Junwei Luo , Zhirui Wang , Yi Yu , Xue Yang

In this paper, we propose a weakly-supervised approach for 3D object detection, which makes it possible to train a strong 3D detector with position-level annotations (i.e. annotations of object centers). In order to remedy the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xiuwei Xu , Yifan Wang , Yu Zheng , Yongming Rao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Manual annotation of bounding boxes for object detection in digital images is tedious, and time and resource consuming. In this paper, we propose a semi-automatic method for efficient bounding box annotation. The method trains the object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Bishwo Adhikari , Heikki Huttunen

In this paper, we categorize fine-grained images without using any object / part annotation neither in the training nor in the testing stage, a step towards making it suitable for deployments. Fine-grained image categorization aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Yu Zhang , Xiu-shen Wei , Jianxin Wu , Jianfei Cai , Jiangbo Lu , Viet-Anh Nguyen , Minh N. Do

Weakly supervised segmentation methods using bounding box annotations focus on obtaining a pixel-level mask from each box containing an object. Existing methods typically depend on a class-agnostic mask generator, which operates on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jungbeom Lee , Jihun Yi , Chaehun Shin , Sungroh Yoon

Recent advances in supervised salient object detection has resulted in significant performance on benchmark datasets. Training such models, however, requires expensive pixel-wise annotations of salient objects. Moreover, many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Huaizu Jiang