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We propose a method for the weakly supervised detection of objects in paintings. At training time, only image-level annotations are needed. This, combined with the efficiency of our multiple-instance learning method, enables one to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Nicolas Gonthier , Yann Gousseau , Said Ladjal , Olivier Bonfait

Multisource image analysis that leverages complementary spectral, spatial, and structural information benefits fine-grained object recognition that aims to classify an object into one of many similar subcategories. However, for multisource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Bulut Aygunes , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Selim Aksoy

With the increase in the number of image data and the lack of corresponding labels, weakly supervised learning has drawn a lot of attention recently in computer vision tasks, especially in the fine-grained semantic segmentation problem. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Ke Zhang , Sihong Chen , Qi Ju , Yong Jiang , Yucong Li , Xin He

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methodsusually rely on fully convolutional networks in order to ob-tain class activation maps(CAMs) of targeted labels. How-ever, these networks always highlight the most discriminativeparts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ziyi Kou , Wentian Zhao , Guofeng Cui , Shaojie Wang

In this work, we explore the task of semantic object keypoint discovery weakly-supervised by only category labels. This is achieved by transforming discriminatively-trained intermediate layer filters into keypoint detectors. We begin by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Pei Guo , Ryan Farrell

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

Weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) models attempt to leverage image-level annotations in lieu of accurate but costly-to-obtain object localization labels. This oftentimes leads to substandard object detection and localization at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yuting Wang , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

We propose a weakly-supervised approach that takes image-sentence pairs as input and learns to visually ground (i.e., localize) arbitrary linguistic phrases, in the form of spatial attention masks. Specifically, the model is trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Fanyi Xiao , Leonid Sigal , Yong Jae Lee

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) enables the training of object detection models using only image-level annotations. State-of-the-art WSOD detectors commonly rely on multi-instance learning (MIL) as the backbone of their detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhaofei Wang , Weijia Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang

When humans describe images they tend to use combinations of nouns and adjectives, corresponding to objects and their associated attributes respectively. To generate such a description automatically, one needs to model objects, attributes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Zhiyuan Shi , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

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

Learning to localize objects with minimal supervision is an important problem in computer vision, since large fully annotated datasets are extremely costly to obtain. In this paper, we propose a new method that achieves this goal with only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Hyun Oh Song , Ross Girshick , Stefanie Jegelka , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui , Trevor Darrell

We propose to model complex visual scenes using a non-parametric Bayesian model learned from weakly labelled images abundant on media sharing sites such as Flickr. Given weak image-level annotations of objects and attributes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Zhiyuan Shi , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

Localizing objects with weak supervision in an image is a key problem of the research in computer vision community. Many existing Weakly-Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) approaches tackle this problem by estimating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Pei Lv , Haiyu Yu , Junxiao Xue , Junjin Cheng , Lisha Cui , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang

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

Conventional few-shot object segmentation methods learn object segmentation from a few labelled support images with strongly labelled segmentation masks. Recent work has shown to perform on par with weaker levels of supervision in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Mennatullah Siam , Naren Doraiswamy , Boris N. Oreshkin , Hengshuai Yao , Martin Jagersand

Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale datasets with pixel-wise annotations. However, due to the ambiguous boundary, annotating camouflage objects pixel-wisely is very time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruozhen He , Qihua Dong , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

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 Object Detection (WSOD) and Localization (WSOL), i.e., detecting multiple and single instances with bounding boxes in an image using image-level labels, are long-standing and challenging tasks in the CV community. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Feifei Shao , Long Chen , Jian Shao , Wei Ji , Shaoning Xiao , Lu Ye , Yueting Zhuang , Jun Xiao

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun