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End-to-end weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims at optimizing a segmentation model in a single-stage training process based on only image annotations. Existing methods adopt an online-trained classification branch to provide pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Xinliang Zhang , Qian Chen , Shuang Zeng , Qiushi Ren , Yanye Lu

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Semantic segmentation is a challenging vision problem that usually necessitates the collection of large amounts of finely annotated data, which is often quite expensive to obtain. Coarsely annotated data provides an interesting alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Isay Katsman , Rohun Tripathi , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie

Annotation of medical images has been a major bottleneck for the development of accurate and robust machine learning models. Annotation is costly and time-consuming and typically requires expert knowledge, especially in the medical domain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Holger Roth , Ling Zhang , Dong Yang , Fausto Milletari , Ziyue Xu , Xiaosong Wang , Daguang Xu

This work addresses the task of completely weakly supervised class-incremental learning for semantic segmentation to learn segmentation for both base and additional novel classes using only image-level labels. While class-incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Minkwan Kim , Soeun Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Since the rise of deep learning, many computer vision tasks have seen significant advancements. However, the downside of deep learning is that it is very data-hungry. Especially for segmentation problems, training a deep neural net requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Robby Neven , Davy Neven , Bert De Brabandere , Marc Proesmans , Toon Goedemé

We propose a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation algorithm based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN). Contrary to existing weakly-supervised approaches, our algorithm exploits auxiliary segmentation annotations available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Seunghoon Hong , Junhyuk Oh , Bohyung Han , Honglak Lee

Parts provide a good intermediate representation of objects that is robust with respect to the camera, pose and appearance variations. Existing works on part segmentation is dominated by supervised approaches that rely on large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Wei-Chih Hung , Varun Jampani , Sifei Liu , Pavlo Molchanov , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

The state of the art in semantic segmentation is steadily increasing in performance, resulting in more precise and reliable segmentations in many different applications. However, progress is limited by the cost of generating labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Viktor Olsson , Wilhelm Tranheden , Juliano Pinto , Lennart Svensson

The demand for accurate food quantification has increased in the recent years, driven by the needs of applications in dietary monitoring. At the same time, computer vision approaches have exhibited great potential in automating tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Valasia Vlachopoulou , Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos

Semantic segmentation is a crucial step in many Earth observation tasks. Large quantity of pixel-level annotation is required to train deep networks for semantic segmentation. Earth observation techniques are applied to varieties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Sudipan Saha , Lichao Mou , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Most methods for object instance segmentation require all training examples to be labeled with segmentation masks. This requirement makes it expensive to annotate new categories and has restricted instance segmentation models to ~100…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ronghang Hu , Piotr Dollár , Kaiming He , Trevor Darrell , Ross Girshick

Instance segmentation is one of the actively studied research topics in computer vision in which many objects of interest should be separated individually. While many feed-forward networks produce high-quality segmentation on different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Tuan Tran Anh , Khoa Nguyen-Tuan , Tran Minh Quan , Won-Ki Jeong

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

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

Obtaining object response maps is one important step to achieve weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using image-level labels. However, existing methods rely on the classification task, which could result in a response map only attending…

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

Deep learning requires large amounts of training data to be effective. For the task of object segmentation, manually labeling data is very expensive, and hence interactive methods are needed. Following recent approaches, we develop an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Sabarinath Mahadevan , Paul Voigtlaender , Bastian Leibe

In this work, we focus on the task of weakly supervised affordance grounding, where a model is trained to identify affordance regions on objects using human-object interaction images and egocentric object images without dense labels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Peiran Xu , Yadong Mu

In this paper, we aim to improve the performance of semantic image segmentation in a semi-supervised setting in which training is effectuated with a reduced set of annotated images and additional non-annotated images. We present a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jizong Peng , Guillermo Estrada , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers