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Attention-based multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as a powerful framework for whole slide image (WSI) diagnosis, leveraging attention to aggregate instance-level features into bag-level predictions. Despite this success, we find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Linfeng Ye , Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Zhixiang Chi , Guang Li , Mert Pilanci , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methods generate both classification and localization results by learning from only image category labels. Previous methods usually utilize class activation map (CAM) to obtain target object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ziyi Kou , Guofeng Cui , Shaojie Wang , Wentian Zhao , Chenliang Xu

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) are high-resolution digital scans widely used in medical diagnostics. WSI classification is typically approached using Multiple Instance Learning (MIL), where the slide is partitioned into tiles treated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Sharon Peled , Yosef E. Maruvka , Moti Freiman

This work addresses the task of weakly-supervised object localization. The goal is to learn object localization using only image-level class labels, which are much easier to obtain compared to bounding box annotations. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 David Kim , Sinhae Cha , Byeongkeun Kang

The existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) video salient object detection (VSOD) models have widely followed short-term methodology, which dynamically determines the balance between spatial and temporal saliency fusion by solely considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chenglizhao Chen , Hengsen Wang , Yuming Fang , Chong Peng

The deployment of machine learning solutions in real-world scenarios often involves addressing the challenge of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. While significant efforts have been devoted to OOD detection in classical supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Loïc Le Bescond , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Fabrice André , Hugues Talbot

Different from general object detection, moving infrared small target detection faces huge challenges due to tiny target size and weak background contrast.Currently, most existing methods are fully-supervised, heavily relying on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weiwei Duan , Luping Ji , Shengjia Chen , Sicheng Zhu , Jianghong Huang , Mao Ye

This paper reports a new solution of leveraging temporal classification to support weakly supervised object detection (WSOD). Specifically, we introduce raster scan-order techniques to serialize 2D images into 1D sequence data, and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Chia-Yu Hsu , Wenwen Li

Histopathological whole slide image (WSI) analysis with deep learning has become a research focus in computational pathology. The current paradigm is mainly based on multiple instance learning (MIL), in which approaches with Transformer as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hongbo Chu , Qiehe Sun , Jiawen Li , Yuxuan Chen , Lizhong Zhang , Tian Guan , Anjia Han , Yonghong He

In this work, we propose Adversarial Complementary Learning (ACoL) to automatically localize integral objects of semantic interest with weak supervision. We first mathematically prove that class localization maps can be obtained by directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Jiashi Feng , Yi Yang , Thomas Huang

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize target objects in images using only image-level labels. Despite recent progress, many approaches still rely on multi-stage pipelines or full fine-tuning of large backbones, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Arian Sabaghi , José Oramas

Anomaly detection with weakly supervised video-level labels is typically formulated as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem, in which we aim to identify snippets containing abnormal events, with each video represented as a bag of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Yu Tian , Guansong Pang , Yuanhong Chen , Rajvinder Singh , Johan W. Verjans , Gustavo Carneiro

State-of-the-art visual recognition and detection systems increasingly rely on large amounts of training data and complex classifiers. Therefore it becomes increasingly expensive both to manually annotate datasets and to keep running times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Stefan Mathe , Cristian Sminchisescu

Fine-grained classification of whole slide images (WSIs) is essential in precision oncology, enabling precise cancer diagnosis and personalized treatment strategies. The core of this task involves distinguishing subtle morphological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Cheng Jin , Luyang Luo , Huangjing Lin , Jun Hou , Hao Chen

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) allows training deep learning models for classification and localization (LOC) using only global class-level labels. The absence of bounding box (bbox) supervision during training raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

We present a self-supervised learning (SSL) method suitable for semi-global tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. We enforce local consistency between self-learned features, representing corresponding image locations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ashraful Islam , Ben Lundell , Harpreet Sawhney , Sudipta Sinha , Peter Morales , Richard J. Radke

Accurate tumor detection in digital pathology whole-slide images (WSIs) is crucial for cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has emerged as a widely used approach for weakly-supervised tumor detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Marina D'Amato , Jeroen van der Laak , Francesco Ciompi

Conventional few-shot object segmentation methods learn object segmentation from a few labelled support images with strongly labelled segmentation masks. Recent work has shown to perform on par with weaker levels of supervision in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Mennatullah Siam , Naren Doraiswamy , Boris N. Oreshkin , Hengshuai Yao , Martin Jagersand

We propose a geometry constrained network, termed GC-Net, for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL). GC-Net consists of three modules: a detector, a generator and a classifier. The detector predicts the object location defined by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Weizeng Lu , Xi Jia , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen , Yicong Zhou , Jinming Duan