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This work addresses weakly-supervised image semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels. One common approach to this task is to propagate the activation scores of Class Activation Maps (CAMs) using a random-walk mechanism in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Shun-Yi Pan , Cheng-You Lu , Shih-Po Lee , Wen-Hsiao Peng

The collection of a high number of pixel-based labeled training samples for tree species identification is time consuming and costly in operational forestry applications. To address this problem, in this paper we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Steve Ahlswede , Nimisha Thekke-Madam , Christian Schulz , Birgit Kleinschmit , Begüm Demir

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

Camouflaged object detection (COD) from a single image is a challenging task due to the high similarity between objects and their surroundings. Existing fully supervised methods require labor-intensive pixel-level annotations, making weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xia Li , Xinran Liu , Lin Qi , Junyu Dong

Unlike fully supervised semantic segmentation, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on weaker forms of supervision to perform dense prediction tasks. Among the various types of weak supervision, WSSS with image level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Wang Zhang

State-of-the-art learning based boundary detection methods require extensive training data. Since labelling object boundaries is one of the most expensive types of annotations, there is a need to relax the requirement to carefully annotate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Anna Khoreva , Rodrigo Benenson , Mohamed Omran , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Existing studies in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level weak supervision have several limitations: sparse object coverage, inaccurate object boundaries, and co-occurring pixels from non-target objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Seungho Lee , Minhyun Lee , Jongwuk Lee , Hyunjung Shim

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment unseen class objects with the guidance of only a few support images. Most previous methods rely on the pixel-level label of support images. In this paper, we focus on a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haohan Wang , Liang Liu , Wuhao Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Haoqian Wang

Text segmentation is a challenging vision task with many downstream applications. Current text segmentation methods require pixel-level annotations, which are expensive in the cost of human labor and limited in application scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyan Zu , Haiyang Yu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Unsupervised video segmentation plays an important role in a wide variety of applications from object identification to compression. However, to date, fast motion, motion blur and occlusions pose significant challenges. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Yuan-Ting Hu , Jia-Bin Huang , Alexander G. Schwing

In weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level class labels, a problem with CNN-based Class Activation Maps (CAM) is that they tend to activate the most discriminative local regions of objects. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Izumi Fujimori , Masaki Oono , Masami Shishibori

Current semantic segmentation models cannot easily generalize to new object classes unseen during train time: they require additional annotated images and retraining. We propose a novel segmentation model that injects visual priors into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 David Golub , Ahmed El-Kishky , Roberto Martín-Martín

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) must learn dense masks from noisy, under-specified cues. We revisit the SegFormer decoder and show that three small, synergistic changes make weak supervision markedly more effective-without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ali Torabi , Sanjog Gaihre , Yaqoob Majeed

Segmenting salient objects in an image is an important vision task with ubiquitous applications. The problem becomes more challenging in the presence of a cluttered and textured background, low resolution and/or low contrast images. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Anuj Pahuja , Avishek Majumder , Anirban Chakraborty , R. Venkatesh Babu

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on class activation maps (CAMs) for pseudo labels generation. As CAMs only highlight the most discriminative regions of objects, the generated pseudo labels are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging problem that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of advanced solutions exploit class activation map (CAM). However, CAMs can hardly serve as the object mask due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Recent attention has been devoted to the pursuit of learning semantic segmentation models exclusively from image tags, a paradigm known as image-level Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS). Existing attempts adopt the Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ye Du , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization is a very challenging problem because frame-wise labels are not given in the training stage while the only hint is video-level labels: whether each video contains action frames of interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Pilhyeon Lee , Youngjung Uh , Hyeran Byun

Deep convolutional neural networks have driven substantial advancements in the automatic understanding of images. Requiring a large collection of images and their associated annotations is one of the main bottlenecks limiting the adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zahra Mirikharaji , Yiqi Yan , Ghassan Hamarneh

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