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We present a new model, training procedure and architecture to create precise maps of distinction between two classes of images. The objective is to comprehend, in pixel-wise resolution, the unique characteristics of a class. These maps can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Elnatan Kadar , Jonathan Brokman , Guy Gilboa

Compared with expensive pixel-wise annotations, image-level labels make it possible to learn semantic segmentation in a weakly-supervised manner. Within this pipeline, the class activation map (CAM) is obtained and further processed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Yicong Hong , Nick Barnes

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known for their ability to learn hierarchical structures, naturally developing detectors for objects, and semantic concepts within their deeper layers. Activation maps (AMs) reveal these saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Aray Karjauv , Sahin Albayrak

CNN visualization and interpretation methods, like class-activation maps (CAMs), are typically used to highlight the image regions linked to class predictions. These models allow to simultaneously classify images and extract class-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Soufiane Belharbi , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has long been suffering from fragmentary object regions led by Class Activation Map (CAM), which is incapable of generating fine-grained masks for semantic segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiren Mai , Fei Zhang , Junjie Ye , Marcus Kalander , Xian Zhang , WanKou Yang , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han

Class Activation Mapping (CAM) methods are widely used to visualize neural network decisions, yet their underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. To enhance the understanding of CAM methods and improve their explainability, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Huaiguang Cai

Real-world visual recognition problems often exhibit long-tailed distributions, where the amount of data for learning in different categories shows significant imbalance. Standard classification models learned on such data distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Lvlong Lai , Henghui Ding , Qingyao Wu

Deep learning techniques have shown great potential in medical image processing, particularly through accurate and reliable image segmentation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans or computed tomography (CT) scans, which allow the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Yang Liu , Ersi Zhang , Lulu Xu , Chufan Xiao , Xiaoyun Zhong , Lijin Lian , Fang Li , Bin Jiang , Yuhan Dong , Lan Ma , Qiming Huang , Ming Xu , Yongbing Zhang , Dongmei Yu , Chenggang Yan , Peiwu Qin

Radiology report generation (RRG) has gained increasing research attention because of its huge potential to mitigate medical resource shortages and aid the process of disease decision making by radiologists. Recent advancements in RRG are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jun Wang , Abhir Bhalerao , Terry Yin , Simon See , Yulan He

The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a widely used deep learning architecture for computer vision. However, its black box nature makes it difficult to interpret the behavior of the model. To mitigate this issue, AI practitioners have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Seok-Yong Byun , Wonju Lee

Multi-view action recognition (MVAR) leverages complementary temporal information from different views to improve the learning performance. Obtaining informative view-specific representation plays an essential role in MVAR. Attention has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yue Bai , Zhiqiang Tao , Lichen Wang , Sheng Li , Yu Yin , Yun Fu

Class Activation Mapping (CAM) is a powerful technique used to understand the decision making of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in computer vision. Recently, there have been attempts not only to generate better visual explanations, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Kwang Hee Lee , Chaewon Park , Junghyun Oh , Nojun Kwak

In recent years, artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied widely in many different fields and has a profound and direct impact on human life. Following this is the need to understand the principles of the model making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Quoc Hung Cao , Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen , Vo Thanh Khang Nguyen , Xuan Phong Nguyen

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) based on image-level labels has been greatly advanced by exploiting the outputs of Class Activation Map (CAM) to generate the pseudo labels for semantic segmentation. However, CAM merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Fei Zhang , Chaochen Gu , Chenyue Zhang , Yuchao Dai

While training models and labeling data are resource-intensive, a wealth of pre-trained models and unlabeled data exists. To effectively utilize these resources, we present an approach to actively select pre-trained models while minimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xuefeng Liu , Fangfang Xia , Rick L. Stevens , Yuxin Chen

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) addresses the challenge of training segmentation models using only image-level annotations. Existing WSSS methods struggle with precise object boundary localization and focus only on the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ali Torabi , Sanjog Gaihre , MD Mahbubur Rahman , Yaqoob Majeed

In recent years, several Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WS3) methods have been proposed that use class activation maps (CAMs) generated by a classifier to produce pseudo-ground truths for training segmentation models. While CAMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 M. Maruf , Arka Daw , Amartya Dutta , Jie Bu , Anuj Karpatne

Weakly supervised object localization aims to find a target object region in a given image with only weak supervision, such as image-level labels. Most existing methods use a class activation map (CAM) to generate a localization map;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Eunji Kim , Siwon Kim , Jungbeom Lee , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Current weakly supervised object localization and segmentation rely on class-discriminative visualization techniques to generate pseudo-labels for pixel-level training. Such visualization methods, including class activation mapping (CAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xiangwei Shi , Seyran Khademi , Yunqiang Li , Jan van Gemert

Class attribution maps (CAMs) provide local explanations for the decisions of convolutional neural networks. While widely used in practice, the evaluation of CAMs remains challenging due to the lack of ground-truth explanations, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Luca Domeniconi , Alessandra Stramiglio , Michele Lombardi , Samuele Salti