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Current high-quality object detection approaches use the scheme of salience-based object proposal methods followed by post-classification using deep convolutional features. This spurred recent research in improving object proposal methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Christian Szegedy , Scott Reed , Dumitru Erhan , Dragomir Anguelov , Sergey Ioffe

Instance segmentation methods require large datasets with expensive and thus limited instance-level mask labels. Partially supervised instance segmentation aims to improve mask prediction with limited mask labels by utilizing the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 David Biertimpel , Sindi Shkodrani , Anil S. Baslamisli , Nóra Baka

This paper presents a weakly-supervised approach to object instance segmentation. Starting with known or predicted object bounding boxes, we learn object masks by playing a game of cut-and-paste in an adversarial learning setup. A mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Tal Remez , Jonathan Huang , Matthew Brown

In Multiple Instance learning (MIL), weak labels are provided at the bag level with only presence/absence information known. However, there is a considerable gap in performance in comparison to a fully supervised model, limiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Anxiang Zhang , Ankit Shah , Bhiksha Raj

In this paper, we introduce Modality-Inconsistent Continual Learning (MICL), a new continual learning scenario for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that involves tasks with inconsistent modalities (image, audio, or video) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Weiguo Pian , Shijian Deng , Shentong Mo , Mingrui Liu , Yunhui Guo , Yapeng Tian

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD), where a detector is trained with only image-level annotations, is attracting more and more attention. As a method to obtain a well-performing detector, the detector and the instance labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Weakly supervised text-based person retrieval seeks to retrieve images of a target person using textual descriptions, without relying on identity annotations and is more challenging and practical. The primary challenge is the intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xinpeng Zhao , Yanwei Zheng , Chuanlin Lan , Xiaowei Zhang , Bowen Huang , Jibin Yang , Dongxiao Yu

Connecting multiple machine learning models into a pipeline is effective for handling complex problems. By breaking down the problem into steps, each tackled by a specific component model of the pipeline, the overall solution can be made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Tomoe Kishimoto , Masahiko Saito , Junichi Tanaka , Yutaro Iiyama , Ryu Sawada , Koji Terashi

Medical image segmentation is a critical yet challenging task, primarily due to the difficulty of obtaining extensive datasets of high-quality, expert-annotated images. Contrastive learning presents a potential but still problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuang Zeng , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Hangzhou He , Yanye Lu

While existing semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) methods perform well in general scenes, they encounter challenges in handling oriented objects in aerial images. We experimentally find three gaps between general and oriented object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Chenxu Wang , Chunyan Xu , Ziqi Gu , Zhen Cui

After learning a new object category from image-level annotations (with no object bounding boxes), humans are remarkably good at precisely localizing those objects. However, building good object localizers (i.e., detectors) currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zitian Chen , Zhiqiang Shen , Jiahui Yu , Erik Learned-Miller

Multi-Instance Learning (MIL) is pivotal for analyzing complex, weakly labeled datasets, such as whole-slide images (WSIs) in computational pathology, where bags comprise unordered collections of instances with sparse diagnostic relevance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuedi Zhang , Zhixiang Xia , Guosheng Yin , Bin Liu

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a compelling tool for object detection by reducing the need for strong supervision during training. However, major challenges remain: (1) differentiation of object instances can be ambiguous; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhongzheng Ren , Zhiding Yu , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Yong Jae Lee , Alexander G. Schwing , Jan Kautz

We propose a new formulation of Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL). In typical MIL settings, a unit of data is given as a set of instances called a bag and the goal is to find a good classifier of bags based on similarity from a single or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Daiki Suehiro , Kohei Hatano , Eiji Takimoto , Shuji Yamamoto , Kenichi Bannai , Akiko Takeda

Weakly supervised segmentation has the potential to greatly reduce the annotation effort for training segmentation models for small structures such as hyper-reflective foci (HRF) in optical coherence tomography (OCT). However, most weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Olivier Morelle , Justus Bisten , Maximilian W. M. Wintergerst , Robert P. Finger , Thomas Schultz

Weakly supervised instance segmentation has gained popularity because it reduces high annotation cost of pixel-level masks required for model training. Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentation detect and segment objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jun Ikeda , Junichiro Mori

Weakly supervised instance labeling using only image-level labels, in lieu of expensive fine-grained pixel annotations, is crucial in several applications including medical image analysis. In contrast to conventional instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Satyananda Kashyap , Alexandros Karagyris

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) aims at learning precise object detectors with only image-level tags. In spite of intensive research on deep learning (DL) approaches over the past few years, there is still a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Qi Lai , ChiMan Vong

The acquisition of large-scale, precisely labeled datasets for person re-identification (ReID) poses a significant challenge. Weakly supervised ReID has begun to address this issue, although its performance lags behind fully supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jacob Tyo , Zachary C. Lipton

In Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs), the efficacy of In-Context Learning (ICL) remains limited by challenges in cross-modal interactions and representation disparities. To overcome these challenges, we introduce a novel Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yucheng Zhou , Xiang Li , Qianning Wang , Jianbing Shen