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In this paper, we address several inadequacies of current video object segmentation pipelines. Firstly, a cyclic mechanism is incorporated to the standard semi-supervised process to produce more robust representations. By relying on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yuxi Li , Ning Xu , Jinlong Peng , John See , Weiyao Lin

Action segmentation is the task of temporally segmenting every frame of an untrimmed video. Weakly supervised approaches to action segmentation, especially from transcripts have been of considerable interest to the computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yaser Souri , Alexander Richard , Luca Minciullo , Juergen Gall

Accurate identification of breast masses is crucial in diagnosing breast cancer; however, it can be challenging due to their small size and being camouflaged in surrounding normal glands. Worse still, it is also expensive in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xinyu Xiong , Churan Wang , Wenxue Li , Guanbin Li

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to recognize novel classes with only very few labelled data. This challenging task requires mining of the relevant relationships between the query image and the support images. Previous works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Wei Ao , Shunyi Zheng , Yan Meng

For many years, image over-segmentation into superpixels has been essential to computer vision pipelines, by creating homogeneous and identifiable regions of similar sizes. Such constrained segmentation problem would require a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Rémi Giraud , Michaël Clément

Semi-supervised video object segmentation is a task of segmenting the target object in a video sequence given only a mask annotation in the first frame. The limited information available makes it an extremely challenging task. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yunyao Mao , Ning Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Current state-of-the-art approaches for Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (Semi-VOS) propagates information from previous frames to generate segmentation mask for the current frame. This results in high-quality segmentation across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Hyojin Park , Jayeon Yoo , Seohyeong Jeong , Ganesh Venkatesh , Nojun Kwak

This paper introduces a novel approach to learning instance segmentation using extreme points, i.e., the topmost, leftmost, bottommost, and rightmost points, of each object. These points are readily available in the modern bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hyeonjun Lee , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak

We propose an approach to instance-level image segmentation that is built on top of category-level segmentation. Specifically, for each pixel in a semantic category mask, its corresponding instance bounding box is predicted using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Object detection is a challenging task in remote sensing because objects only occupy a few pixels in the images, and the models are required to simultaneously learn object locations and detection. Even though the established approaches well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jocelyn Chanussot , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Jie Yang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with weak labels is a long-lived ill-posed problem. Mainstream methods mainly focus on improving the quality of pseudo labels. In this report, we attempt to explore the potential of 'prompt to masks'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Peng-Tao Jiang , Yuqi Yang

Recently proposed methods for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation have achieved impressive performance in predicting pixel classes despite being trained with only image labels which lack positional information. Because image annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Lyndon Chan , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task as no pixel-wise label information is provided for training. Recent methods have exploited classification networks to localize objects by selecting regions with strong response.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Xiang Wang , Sifei Liu , Huimin Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Edge detection has long been an important problem in the field of computer vision. Previous works have explored category-agnostic or category-aware edge detection. In this paper, we explore edge detection in the context of object instances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Xueyan Zou , Haotian Liu , Yong Jae Lee

Video Instance Segmentation is a fundamental computer vision task that deals with segmenting and tracking object instances across a video sequence. Most existing methods typically accomplish this task by employing a multi-stage top-down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jyoti Kini , Mubarak Shah

Segmentation of tumors in brain MRI images is a challenging task, where most recent methods demand large volumes of data with pixel-level annotations, which are generally costly to obtain. In contrast, image-level annotations, where only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Sergey Pavlov , Alexey Artemov , Maksim Sharaev , Alexander Bernstein , Evgeny Burnaev

Camouflaged object detection (COD) from a single image is a challenging task due to the high similarity between objects and their surroundings. Existing fully supervised methods require labor-intensive pixel-level annotations, making weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xia Li , Xinran Liu , Lin Qi , Junyu Dong

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

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have proven effective in solving the task of semantic segmentation. However, their efficiency heavily relies on the pixel-level annotations that are expensive to get and often require domain expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Ostap Viniavskyi , Mariia Dobko , Oles Dobosevych