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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

Semantic segmentation is the task of classifying each pixel in an image. Training a segmentation model achieves best results using annotated images, where each pixel is annotated with the corresponding class. When obtaining fine annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jort de Jong , Mike Holenderski

In this paper we introduce a novel method for general semantic segmentation that can benefit from general semantics of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our segmentation proposes visually and semantically coherent image segments. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Hossein Mousavi , Moin Nabi , Mohammad Rastegari , Carlo Regazzoni

Are we using the right potential functions in the Conditional Random Field models that are popular in the Vision community? Semantic segmentation and other pixel-level labelling tasks have made significant progress recently due to the deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Måns Larsson , Anurag Arnab , Fredrik Kahl , Shuai Zheng , Philip Torr

Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for very high resolution images requires a large quantity of high-quality pixel-level annotations, which is extremely labor- and time-consuming to produce. Moreover, professional photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuansheng Hua , Diego Marcos , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Devis Tuia

Modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are able to achieve human-level object classification accuracy on specific tasks, and currently outperform competing models in explaining complex human visual representations. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Joshua C. Peterson , Paul Soulos , Aida Nematzadeh , Thomas L. Griffiths

Currently, existing efforts in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have predominantly focused on enhancing the multi-label classification network stage, with limited attention given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jia Zhang , Bo Peng , Xi Wu

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

When approaching the semantic segmentation of overhead imagery in the decimeter spatial resolution range, successful strategies usually combine powerful methods to learn the visual appearance of the semantic classes (e.g. convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Michele Volpi , Devis Tuia

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

Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

In this paper, we improve semantic segmentation by automatically learning from Flickr images associated with a particular keyword, without relying on any explicit user annotations, thus substantially alleviating the dependence on accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiangjiang Liu , Philip H. S. Torr

We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for semi-supervised semantic segmentation using heterogeneous annotations. Contrary to existing approaches posing semantic segmentation as a single task of region-based classification, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Seunghoon Hong , Hyeonwoo Noh , Bohyung Han

A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is sometimes confronted with objects of changing appearance ( new instances) that exceed its generalization capability. This requires the CNN to incorporate new knowledge, i.e., to learn incrementally.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tobias Scheck , Ana Perez Grassi , Gangolf Hirtz

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

We introduce a new loss function for the weakly-supervised training of semantic image segmentation models based on three guiding principles: to seed with weak localization cues, to expand objects based on the information about which classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Alexander Kolesnikov , Christoph H. Lampert

In this paper, we address the dataset scarcity issue with the hyperspectral image classification. As only a few thousands of pixels are available for training, it is difficult to effectively learn high-capacity Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Hyungtae Lee , Sungmin Eum , Heesung Kwon

Since acquiring pixel-wise annotations for training convolutional neural networks for semantic image segmentation is time-consuming, weakly supervised approaches that only require class tags have been proposed. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Johann Sawatzky , Debayan Banerjee , Juergen Gall