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Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Weakly supervised object detection aims at learning precise object detectors, given image category labels. In recent prevailing works, this problem is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning module guided by an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaoyan Li , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Supervised training of object detectors requires well-annotated large-scale datasets, whose production is costly. Therefore, some efforts have been made to obtain annotations in economical ways, such as cloud sourcing. However, datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Jiafeng Mao , Qing Yu , Yoko Yamakata , Kiyoharu Aizawa

The great progress of 3D object detectors relies on large-scale data and 3D annotations. The annotation cost for 3D bounding boxes is extremely expensive while the 2D ones are easier and cheaper to collect. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jinrong Yang , Tiancai Wang , Zheng Ge , Weixin Mao , Xiaoping Li , Xiangyu Zhang

Learning to localize and name object instances is a fundamental problem in vision, but state-of-the-art approaches rely on expensive bounding box supervision. While weakly supervised detection (WSOD) methods relax the need for boxes to that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Keren Ye , Mingda Zhang , Adriana Kovashka , Wei Li , Danfeng Qin , Jesse Berent

Most existing crowd counting methods require object location-level annotation, i.e., placing a dot at the center of an object. While being simpler than the bounding-box or pixel-level annotation, obtaining this annotation is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yinjie Lei , Yan Liu , Pingping Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale datasets with pixel-wise annotations. However, due to the ambiguous boundary, annotating camouflage objects pixel-wisely is very time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruozhen He , Qihua Dong , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Road attributes understanding is extensively researched to support vehicle's action for autonomous driving, whereas current works mainly focus on urban road nets and rely much on traffic signs. This paper generalizes the same issue to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Huifang Ma , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong , Sarath Kodagoda , Qianhui Luo

Current 3D segmentation methods heavily rely on large-scale point-cloud datasets, which are notoriously laborious to annotate. Few attempts have been made to circumvent the need for dense per-point annotations. In this work, we look at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Julian Chibane , Francis Engelmann , Tuan Anh Tran , Gerard Pons-Moll

Detecting curved text in the wild is very challenging. Recently, most state-of-the-art methods are segmentation based and require pixel-level annotations. We propose a novel scheme to train an accurate text detector using only a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Xugong Qin , Yu Zhou , Dongbao Yang , Weiping Wang

Many ways of annotating a dataset for machine learning classification tasks that go beyond the usual class labels exist in practice. These are of interest as they can simplify or facilitate the collection of annotations, while not greatly…

Can we detect common objects in a variety of image domains without instance-level annotations? In this paper, we present a framework for a novel task, cross-domain weakly supervised object detection, which addresses this question. For this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Naoto Inoue , Ryosuke Furuta , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Kiyoharu Aizawa

The success of fully supervised saliency detection models depends on a large number of pixel-wise labeling. In this paper, we work on bounding-box based weakly-supervised saliency detection to relieve the labeling effort. Given the bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Mengqi He , Jing Zhang , Wenxin Yu

Compared with laborious pixel-wise dense labeling, it is much easier to label data by scribbles, which only costs 1$\sim$2 seconds to label one image. However, using scribble labels to learn salient object detection has not been explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Jing Zhang , Xin Yu , Aixuan Li , Peipei Song , Bowen Liu , Yuchao Dai

Existing Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale pixel-annotated training sets, which are both time-consuming and labor-intensive. Although weakly supervised methods offer higher annotation efficiency, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jin Zhang , Ruiheng Zhang , Yanjiao Shi , Zhe Cao , Nian Liu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

Monocular 3D object detection is an essential task in computer vision, and it has several applications in robotics and virtual reality. However, 3D object detectors are typically trained in a fully supervised way, relying extensively on 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Andreas Lau Hansen , Lukas Wanzeck , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Deep learning based salient object detection has recently achieved great success with its performance greatly outperforms any other unsupervised methods. However, annotating per-pixel saliency masks is a tedious and inefficient procedure.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin

Object detection when provided image-level labels instead of instance-level labels (i.e., bounding boxes) during training is an important problem in computer vision, since large scale image datasets with instance-level labels are extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Ziang Yan , Jian Liang , Weishen Pan , Jin Li , Changshui Zhang

Patch-level image representation is very important for object classification and detection, since it is robust to spatial transformation, scale variation, and cluttered background. Many existing methods usually require fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Zilong Huang , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu