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Semantic segmentation is a key problem for many computer vision tasks. While approaches based on convolutional neural networks constantly break new records on different benchmarks, generalizing well to diverse testing environments remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Tuan-Hung Vu , Himalaya Jain , Maxime Bucher , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

We propose a weakly-supervised framework for the semantic segmentation of circular-scan synthetic-aperture-sonar (CSAS) imagery. The first part of our framework is trained in a supervised manner, on image-level labels, to uncover a set of…

Supervised machine learning often requires large training sets to train accurate models, yet obtaining large amounts of labeled data is not always feasible. Hence, it becomes crucial to explore active learning methods for reducing the size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ashna Jose , Emilie Devijver , Massih-Reza Amini , Noel Jakse , Roberta Poloni

To minimize the annotation costs associated with the training of semantic segmentation models, researchers have extensively investigated weakly-supervised segmentation approaches. In the current weakly-supervised segmentation methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Wataru Shimoda , Keiji Yanai

Semantic segmentation is a task that traditionally requires a large dataset of pixel-level ground truth labels, which is time-consuming and expensive to obtain. Recent advancements in the weakly-supervised setting show that reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Erik Stammes , Tom F. H. Runia , Michael Hofmann , Mohsen Ghafoorian

Despite achieving promising results in a breadth of medical image segmentation tasks, deep neural networks require large training datasets with pixel-wise annotations. Obtaining these curated datasets is a cumbersome process which limits…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Bingyuan Liu , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

Pixel and superpixel classifiers have become essential tools for EM segmentation algorithms. Training these classifiers remains a major bottleneck primarily due to the requirement of completely annotating the dataset which is tedious,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Toufiq Parag , Stephen Plaza , Louis Scheffer

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation produces pixel-level localization from class labels; however, a classifier trained on such labels is likely to focus on a small discriminative region of the target object. We interpret this phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Jungbeom Lee , Jooyoung Choi , Jisoo Mok , Sungroh Yoon

We show that the way inference is performed in few-shot segmentation tasks has a substantial effect on performances -- an aspect often overlooked in the literature in favor of the meta-learning paradigm. We introduce a transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Malik Boudiaf , Hoel Kervadec , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

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

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

Automated semantic segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopic images is crucial for disease diagnosis and tissue microenvironment analysis. Nonetheless, this task presents challenges due to the complexity and heterogeneity of cells. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Zhuchen Shao , Sourya Sengupta , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio

This paper proposes a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation method using image-level label only. The class-specific activation maps from the well-trained classifiers are used as cues to train a segmentation network. The well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Ting Sun , Lei Tai , Zhihan Gao , Ming Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

In semantic segmentation, training data down-sampling is commonly performed due to limited resources, the need to adapt image size to the model input, or improve data augmentation. This down-sampling typically employs different strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Roberto Alcover-Couso , Marcos Escudero-Vinolo , Juan C. SanMiguel , Jose M. Martinez

Weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation methods that require 1\% or fewer labels, hoping to realize almost the same performance as fully supervised approaches, which recently, have attracted extensive research attention. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Tianfang Sun , Zhizhong Zhang , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Accurate analysis and modeling of renal functions require a precise segmentation of the renal blood vessels. Micro-CT scans provide image data at higher resolutions, making more small vessels near the renal cortex visible. Although…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Peidi Xu , Olga Sosnovtseva , Charlotte Mehlin Sørensen , Kenny Erleben , Sune Darkner

Training convolutional networks for semantic segmentation requires per-pixel ground truth labels, which are very time consuming and hence costly to obtain. Therefore, in this work, we research and develop a hierarchical deep network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Panagiotis Meletis , Gijs Dubbelman

Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

We propose a method for semi-supervised semantic segmentation using an adversarial network. While most existing discriminators are trained to classify input images as real or fake on the image level, we design a discriminator in a fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wei-Chih Hung , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Yan-Ting Liou , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang