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We propose a method for the unsupervised clustering of hyperspectral images based on spatially regularized spectral clustering with ultrametric path distances. The proposed method efficiently combines data density and geometry to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Shukun Zhang , James M. Murphy

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing computer vision challenges that involve decomposing an image into semantically-meaningful segments without any labeled data. These tasks are particularly interesting in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

While image segmentation is crucial in various computer vision applications, such as autonomous driving, grasping, and robot navigation, annotating all objects at the pixel-level for training is nearly impossible. Therefore, the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Cuong Manh Hoang , Byeongkeun Kang

Image clustering is a particularly challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate annotations without human supervision. Recent advances focus on the use of self-supervised learning strategies in image clustering, by first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Foivos Ntelemis , Yaochu Jin , Spencer A. Thomas

Hyperspectral images capture vast amounts of high-dimensional spectral information about a scene, making labeling an intensive task that is resistant to out-of-the-box statistical methods. Unsupervised learning of clusters allows for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Joshua Lentz , Nicholas Karris , Alex Cloninger , James M. Murphy

In this paper we address the problem of unsupervised localization of objects in single images. Compared to previous state-of-the-art method our method is fully unsupervised in the sense that there is no prior instance level or category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Hakan Karaoguz , Patric Jensfelt

Common object counting in a natural scene is a challenging problem in computer vision with numerous real-world applications. Existing image-level supervised common object counting approaches only predict the global object count and rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Hisham Cholakkal , Guolei Sun , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Localizing objects in image collections without supervision can help to avoid expensive annotation campaigns. We propose a simple approach to this problem, that leverages the activation features of a vision transformer pre-trained in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Oriane Siméoni , Gilles Puy , Huy V. Vo , Simon Roburin , Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Renaud Marlet , Jean Ponce

Unsupervised approaches to learning in neural networks are of substantial interest for furthering artificial intelligence, both because they would enable the training of networks without the need for large numbers of expensive annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Chengxu Zhuang , Alex Lin Zhai , Daniel Yamins

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Yilu Guo , Luojun Lin

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning methodology where unlabeled elements/objects are grouped together aiming to the construction of well-established clusters that their elements are classified according to their similarity. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-20 Dimitrios Saligkaras , Vasileios E. Papageorgiou

We consider the problem of segmenting an image into superpixels in the context of $k$-means clustering, in which we wish to decompose an image into local, homogeneous regions corresponding to the underlying objects. Our novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Jianchao Zhang , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Daniel Heydecker , Xiaosheng Zhuang , Raymond Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Visual object localization is the key step in a series of object detection tasks. In the literature, high localization accuracy is achieved with the mainstream strongly supervised frameworks. However, such methods require object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yi-Geng Hong , Hui-Chu Xiao , Wan-Lei Zhao

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze

Can we automatically group images into semantically meaningful clusters when ground-truth annotations are absent? The task of unsupervised image classification remains an important, and open challenge in computer vision. Several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Marc Proesmans , Luc Van Gool

Sound localization aims to find the source of the audio signal in the visual scene. However, it is labor-intensive to annotate the correlations between the signals sampled from the audio and visual modalities, thus making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yan-Bo Lin , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

The clustering of unlabeled raw images is a daunting task, which has recently been approached with some success by deep learning methods. Here we propose an unsupervised clustering framework, which learns a deep neural network in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Guy Shiran , Daphna Weinshall

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is one of the most popular and challenging tasks in computer vision. This task is to localize the objects in the images given only the image-level supervision. Recently, dividing WSOL into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Rui Xu , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Bo Du , Jialie Shen , Yonggang Wen

Clustering can be defined as the process of assembling objects into a number of groups whose elements are similar to each other in some manner. As a technique that is used in many domains, such as face clustering, plant categorization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mehmet F. Demirel , Enrico Au-Yeung