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Models based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly improved the performance of semantic segmentation. However, learning these models requires a large amount of training images with pixel-level labels, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

Models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been proven very successful for semantic segmentation and object parsing that yield hierarchies of features. Our key insight is to build convolutional networks that take input of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jalal Mirakhorli , Hamidreza Amindavar

Weakly supervised instance segmentation has gained popularity because it reduces high annotation cost of pixel-level masks required for model training. Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentation detect and segment objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jun Ikeda , Junichiro Mori

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

Histopathology image analysis plays a critical role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. To automatically segment the cancerous regions, fully supervised segmentation algorithms require labor-intensive and time-consuming labeling at the pixel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Gang Xu , Zhigang Song , Zhuo Sun , Calvin Ku , Zhe Yang , Cancheng Liu , Shuhao Wang , Jianpeng Ma , Wei Xu

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects with only image-level labels. Previous methods often try to utilize feature maps and classification weights to localize objects using image level annotations indirectly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Chen-Lin Zhang , Yun-Hao Cao , Jianxin Wu

Multisource image analysis that leverages complementary spectral, spatial, and structural information benefits fine-grained object recognition that aims to classify an object into one of many similar subcategories. However, for multisource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Bulut Aygunes , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Selim Aksoy

Weakly-supervised learning is a paradigm for alleviating the scarcity of labeled data by leveraging lower-quality but larger-scale supervision signals. While existing work mainly focuses on utilizing a certain type of weak supervision, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Yivan Zhang , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Masashi Sugiyama

Multiple instance learning (MIL) can reduce the need for costly annotation in tasks such as semantic segmentation by weakening the required degree of supervision. We propose a novel MIL formulation of multi-class semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Deepak Pathak , Evan Shelhamer , Jonathan Long , Trevor Darrell

We propose an approach for learning category-level semantic segmentation purely from image-level classification tags indicating presence of categories. It exploits localization cues that emerge from training classification-tasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Nicholas Kolkin , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Methods that move towards less supervised scenarios are key for image segmentation, as dense labels demand significant human intervention. Generally, the annotation burden is mitigated by labeling datasets with weaker forms of supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to categorize each pixel in an image into a corresponding class without the use of annotated data. It is a widely researched area as obtaining labeled datasets is expensive. While previous works in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yau Shing Jonathan Cheung , Xi Chen , Lihe Yang , Hengshuang Zhao

In fine-grained road scene understanding, semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling vehicles to perceive and comprehend their surroundings. By assigning a specific class label to each pixel in an image, it allows for precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuting Hong , Yongkang Wu , Hui Xiao , Huazheng Hao , Xiaojie Qiu , Baochen Yao , Chengbin Peng

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

We propose a novel method for instance label segmentation of dense 3D voxel grids. We target volumetric scene representations, which have been acquired with depth sensors or multi-view stereo methods and which have been processed with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jean Lahoud , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) based on image-level labels is challenging since it is hard to obtain complete semantic regions. To address this issue, we propose a self-training method that utilizes fused multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Guoqing Yang , Chuang Zhu , Yu Zhang

It is challenging for weakly supervised object detection network to precisely predict the positions of the objects, since there are no instance-level category annotations. Most existing methods tend to solve this problem by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ke Yang , Dongsheng Li , Yong Dou

Various strategies for label-scarce object detection have been explored by the computer vision research community. These strategies mainly rely on assumptions that are specific to natural images and not directly applicable to the biological…

Deep neural networks currently deliver promising results for microscopy image cell segmentation, but they require large-scale labelled databases, which is a costly and time-consuming process. In this work, we relax the labelling requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Youssef Dawoud , Katharina Ernst , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

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