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Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

Instance segmentation is a fundamental research in computer vision, especially in autonomous driving. However, manual mask annotation for instance segmentation is quite time-consuming and costly. To address this problem, some prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuzhi Wu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Grocery stores have thousands of products that are usually identified using barcodes with a human in the loop. For automated checkout systems, it is necessary to count and classify the groceries efficiently and robustly. One possibility is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Patrick Follmann , Bertram Drost , Tobias Böttger

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

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

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

It is generally accepted that one of the critical parts of current vision algorithms based on deep learning and convolutional neural networks is the annotation of a sufficient number of images to achieve competitive performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Kai Yao , Alberto Ortiz , Francisco Bonnin-Pascual

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task in histopathology image analysis. Typically, such segmentation tasks require significant effort to manually generate accurate pixel-wise annotations for fully supervised training. To alleviate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Hui Qu , Pengxiang Wu , Qiaoying Huang , Jingru Yi , Zhennan Yan , Kang Li , Gregory M. Riedlinger , Subhajyoti De , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Action segmentation is the task of predicting an action label for each frame of an untrimmed video. As obtaining annotations to train an approach for action segmentation in a fully supervised way is expensive, various approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yaser Souri , Yazan Abu Farha , Emad Bahrami , Gianpiero Francesca , Juergen Gall

Since the rise of deep learning, many computer vision tasks have seen significant advancements. However, the downside of deep learning is that it is very data-hungry. Especially for segmentation problems, training a deep neural net requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Robby Neven , Davy Neven , Bert De Brabandere , Marc Proesmans , Toon Goedemé

Accurate identification of breast masses is crucial in diagnosing breast cancer; however, it can be challenging due to their small size and being camouflaged in surrounding normal glands. Worse still, it is also expensive in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xinyu Xiong , Churan Wang , Wenxue Li , Guanbin Li

This work addresses the task of completely weakly supervised class-incremental learning for semantic segmentation to learn segmentation for both base and additional novel classes using only image-level labels. While class-incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Minkwan Kim , Soeun Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

Semantic segmentation is a challenging vision problem that usually necessitates the collection of large amounts of finely annotated data, which is often quite expensive to obtain. Coarsely annotated data provides an interesting alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Isay Katsman , Rohun Tripathi , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

Existing weakly or semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods utilize image or box-level supervision to generate pseudo-labels for weakly labeled images. However, due to the lack of strong supervision, the generated pseudo-labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Sen Jia , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil D. B. Bruce

The ability to understand visual information from limited labeled data is an important aspect of machine learning. While image-level classification has been extensively studied in a semi-supervised setting, dense pixel-level classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sudhanshu Mittal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Thomas Brox

The semantic image segmentation task presents a trade-off between test time accuracy and training-time annotation cost. Detailed per-pixel annotations enable training accurate models but are very time-consuming to obtain, image-level class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Amy Bearman , Olga Russakovsky , Vittorio Ferrari , Li Fei-Fei

3D instance segmentation methods often require fully-annotated dense labels for training, which are costly to obtain. In this paper, we present ClickSeg, a novel click-level weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation method that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Leyao Liu , Tao Kong , Minzhao Zhu , Jiashuo Fan , Lu Fang

Current state of the art methods for generating semantic segmentation rely heavily on a large set of images that have each pixel labeled with a class of interest label or background. Coming up with such labels, especially in domains that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 R. Austin McEver , B. S. Manjunath

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