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Object detection when provided image-level labels instead of instance-level labels (i.e., bounding boxes) during training is an important problem in computer vision, since large scale image datasets with instance-level labels are extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Ziang Yan , Jian Liang , Weishen Pan , Jin Li , Changshui Zhang

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang

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

It is laborious to manually label point cloud data for training high-quality 3D object detectors. This work proposes a weakly supervised approach for 3D object detection, only requiring a small set of weakly annotated scenes, associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Qinghao Meng , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Patch-level image representation is very important for object classification and detection, since it is robust to spatial transformation, scale variation, and cluttered background. Many existing methods usually require fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Zilong Huang , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation and localiza- tion have a problem of focusing only on the most important parts of an image since they use only image-level annota- tions. In this paper, we solve this problem fundamentally via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Dahun Kim , Donghyeon Cho , Donggeun Yoo , In So Kweon

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) is a challenging task when provided with image category supervision but required to simultaneously learn object locations and object detectors. Many WSOD approaches adopt multiple instance learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Fang Wan , Chang Liu , Wei Ke , Xiangyang Ji , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) refers to the task of discriminating the whole region of objects from the background within a scene without relying on labeled datasets, which benefits the task of bounding-box-level localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes , Yuchao Dai

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu

Weakly supervised visual grounding aims to predict the region in an image that corresponds to a specific linguistic query, where the mapping between the target object and query is unknown in the training stage. The state-of-the-art method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Viet-Quoc Pham , Nao Mishima

Weakly supervised object localization remains challenging, where only image labels instead of bounding boxes are available during training. Object proposal is an effective component in localization, but often computationally expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Yi Zhu , Yanzhao Zhou , Qixiang Ye , Qiang Qiu , Jianbin Jiao

Semi- and weakly-supervised learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the object detection literature since they can alleviate the cost of annotation needed to successfully train deep learning models. State-of-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akhil Meethal , Marco Pedersoli , Zhongwen Zhu , Francisco Perdigon Romero , Eric Granger

The increasing prominence of weakly labeled data nurtures a growing demand for object detection methods that can cope with minimal supervision. We propose an approach that automatically identifies discriminative configurations of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Hyun Oh Song , Yong Jae Lee , Stefanie Jegelka , Trevor Darrell

Weakly-Supervised Concealed Object Segmentation (WSCOS) aims to segment objects well blended with surrounding environments using sparsely-annotated data for model training. It remains a challenging task since (1) it is hard to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Guoxia Xu , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS), which aims to mine the object regions by merely using class-level labels, is a challenging task in computer vision. The current state-of-the-art CNN-based methods usually adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dongjian Huo , Yukun Su , Qingyao Wu

The deep generative adversarial networks (GAN) recently have been shown to be promising for different computer vision applications, like image edit- ing, synthesizing high resolution images, generating videos, etc. These networks and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Ali Diba , Vivek Sharma , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Luc Van Gool

Object detection is a challenging task in visual understanding domain, and even more so if the supervision is to be weak. Recently, few efforts to handle the task without expensive human annotations is established by promising deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Ali Diba , Vivek Sharma , Ali Pazandeh , Hamed Pirsiavash , Luc Van Gool

Recently, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance on the task of object detection and recognition. The reason for this success is mainly grounded in the availability of large scale, fully annotated datasets, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Christian Bartz , Haojin Yang , Joseph Bethge , Christoph Meinel

Weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) has emerged as an inspiring recent topic to avoid expensive instance-level object annotations. However, the bounding boxes of most existing WSOD methods are mainly determined by precomputed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Bowen Dong , Zitong Huang , Yuelin Guo , Qilong Wang , Zhenxing Niu , Wangmeng Zuo