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Instance segmentation requires a large number of training samples to achieve satisfactory performance and benefits from proper data augmentation. To enlarge the training set and increase the diversity, previous methods have investigated…

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Image segmentation methods are usually trained with pixel-level annotations, which require significant human effort to collect. The most common solution to address this constraint is to implement weakly-supervised pipelines trained with…

In recent years, semantic segmentation has taken benefit from various works in computer vision. Inspired by the very versatile CycleGAN architecture, we combine semantic segmentation with the concept of cycle consistency to enable a…

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