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Panoptic segmentation has become a new standard of visual recognition task by unifying previous semantic segmentation and instance segmentation tasks in concert. In this paper, we propose and explore a new video extension of this task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Dahun Kim , Sanghyun Woo , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

Semantic instance segmentation remains a challenging task. In this work we propose to tackle the problem with a discriminative loss function, operating at the pixel level, that encourages a convolutional network to produce a representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bert De Brabandere , Davy Neven , Luc Van Gool

We consider the problem of weakly supervised object detection, where the training samples are annotated using only image-level labels that indicate the presence or absence of an object category. In order to model the uncertainty in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Aditya Arun , C. V. Jawahar , M. Pawan Kumar

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

The main obstacle to weakly supervised semantic image segmentation is the difficulty of obtaining pixel-level information from coarse image-level annotations. Most methods based on image-level annotations use localization maps obtained from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jungbeom Lee , Eunji Kim , Sungmin Lee , Jangho Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is crucial in computer vision and robotics. Despite significant progress in object segmentation, part-level segmentation remains underexplored due to complex boundaries and scarce annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xinjian Wu , Ruisong Zhang , Jie Qin , Shijie Ma , Cheng-Lin Liu

Unsupervised panoptic segmentation aims to partition an image into semantically meaningful regions and distinct object instances without training on manually annotated data. In contrast to prior work on unsupervised panoptic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers , Christian Rupprecht , Stefan Roth

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

Pixel-wise clean annotation is necessary for fully-supervised semantic segmentation, which is laborious and expensive to obtain. In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised 2D semantic segmentation model by incorporating sparse bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

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

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

Supervised learning in large discriminative models is a mainstay for modern computer vision. Such an approach necessitates investing in large-scale human-annotated datasets for achieving state-of-the-art results. In turn, the efficacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Liang-Chieh Chen , Raphael Gontijo Lopes , Bowen Cheng , Maxwell D. Collins , Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Hartwig Adam , Jonathon Shlens

Given a training dataset composed of images and corresponding category labels, deep convolutional neural networks show a strong ability in mining discriminative parts for image classification. However, deep convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Weifeng Ge , Xiangru Lin , Yizhou Yu

Instance segmentation is essential for numerous computer vision applications, including robotics, human-computer interaction, and autonomous driving. Currently, popular models bring impressive performance in instance segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Cuong Manh Hoang

We present an end-to-end network to bridge the gap between training and inference pipeline for panoptic segmentation, a task that seeks to partition an image into semantic regions for "stuff" and object instances for "things". In contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Qizhu Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Philip H. S. Torr

Humans have a strong class-agnostic object segmentation ability and can outline boundaries of unknown objects precisely, which motivates us to propose a box-supervised class-agnostic object segmentation (BoxCaseg) based solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Xinggang Wang , Jiapei Feng , Bin Hu , Qi Ding , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu

Being able to learn dense semantic representations of images without supervision is an important problem in computer vision. However, despite its significance, this problem remains rather unexplored, with a few exceptions that considered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Luc Van Gool

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

In this paper, we show that recent advances in self-supervised feature learning enable unsupervised object discovery and semantic segmentation with a performance that matches the state of the field on supervised semantic segmentation 10…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Andrii Zadaianchuk , Matthaeus Kleindessner , Yi Zhu , Francesco Locatello , Thomas Brox