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This work aims to leverage pre-trained foundation models, such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) and segment anything model (SAM), to address weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiaobo Yang , Xiaojin Gong

Fully supervised deep neural networks for segmentation usually require a massive amount of pixel-level labels which are manually expensive to create. In this work, we develop a multi-task learning method to relax this constraint. We regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Mark Kirkland , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We propose a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation algorithm based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN). Contrary to existing weakly-supervised approaches, our algorithm exploits auxiliary segmentation annotations available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Seunghoon Hong , Junhyuk Oh , Bohyung Han , Honglak Lee

Semantic segmentation aims to classify every pixel of an input image. Considering the difficulty of acquiring dense labels, researchers have recently been resorting to weak labels to alleviate the annotation burden of segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yazhou Yao , Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Chuanyi Zhang , Fumin Shen , Qi Wu , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

This work proposes a hybrid unsupervised and supervised learning method to pre-train models applied in Earth observation downstream tasks when only a handful of labels denoting very general semantic concepts are available. We combine a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Omar A. Castaño-Idarraga , Raul Ramos-Pollán , Freddie Kalaitzis

Fine-grained multi-label classification models have broad applications in e-commerce, such as visual based label predictions ranging from fashion attribute detection to brand recognition. One challenge to achieve satisfactory performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xin Shen , Xiaonan Zhao , Rui Luo

Large annotated datasets are vital for training segmentation models, but pixel-level labeling is time-consuming, error-prone, and often requires scarce expert annotators, especially in medical imaging. In contrast, coarse annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Le Zhang , Fuping Wu , Arun Thirunavukarasu , Kevin Bronik , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

We develop methods for detector learning which exploit joint training over both weak and strong labels and which transfer learned perceptual representations from strongly-labeled auxiliary tasks. Previous methods for weak-label learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Judy Hoffman , Deepak Pathak , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Recent progress in semantic segmentation is driven by deep Convolutional Neural Networks and large-scale labeled image datasets. However, data labeling for pixel-wise segmentation is tedious and costly. Moreover, a trained model can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Fayao Liu , Rui Yao , Chunhua Shen

Semantic segmentation is a challenging computer vision task demanding a significant amount of pixel-level annotated data. Producing such data is a time-consuming and costly process, especially for domains with a scarcity of experts, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Sara Mousavi , Zhenning Yang , Kelley Cross , Dawnie Steadman , Audris Mockus

Making an informed, correct and quick decision can be life-saving. It's crucial for animals during an escape behaviour or for autonomous cars during driving. The decision can be complex and may involve an assessment of the amount of threats…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Hannes Rapp , Martin Paul Nawrot , Merav Stern

We propose an automatic preprocessing and ensemble learning for segmentation of cell images with low quality. It is difficult to capture cells with strong light. Therefore, the microscopic images of cells tend to have low image quality but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Sota Kato , Kazuhiro Hotta

Biodiversity loss poses a significant threat to humanity, making wildlife monitoring essential for assessing ecosystem health. Avian species are ideal subjects for this due to their popularity and the ease of identifying them through their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Nina Brolich , Simon Geis , Maximilian Kasper , Alexander Barnhill , Axel Plinge , Dominik Seuß

Large-scale training for semantic segmentation is challenging due to the expense of obtaining training data for this task relative to other vision tasks. We propose a novel training approach to address this difficulty. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Paul Vernaza , Manmohan Chandraker

Medical image annotation is a major hurdle for developing precise and robust machine learning models. Annotation is expensive, time-consuming, and often requires expert knowledge, particularly in the medical field. Here, we suggest using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Holger R Roth , Dong Yang , Ziyue Xu , Xiaosong Wang , Daguang Xu

Semantic segmentation methods have achieved outstanding performance thanks to deep learning. Nevertheless, when such algorithms are deployed to new contexts not seen during training, it is necessary to collect and label scene-specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Daniele Di Mauro , Antonino Furnari , Giuseppe Patanè , Sebastiano Battiato , Giovanni Maria Farinella

We tackle biomedical image segmentation in the scenario of only a few labeled brain MR images. This is an important and challenging task in medical applications, where manual annotations are time-consuming. Current multi-atlas based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Hyeon Woo Lee , Mert R. Sabuncu , Adrian V. Dalca

Remote sensing through semantic segmentation of satellite images contributes to the understanding and utilisation of the earth's surface. For this purpose, semantic segmentation networks are typically trained on large sets of labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Tuan Pham Minh , Jayan Wijesingha , Daniel Kottke , Marek Herde , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick , Michael Wachendorf , Thomas Esch

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been immensely successful in many high-level computer vision tasks given large labeled datasets. However, for video semantic object segmentation, a domain where labels are scarce, effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Huiling Wang , Tapani Raiko , Lasse Lensu , Tinghuai Wang , Juha Karhunen

This paper examines the challenges and advancements in recognizing seals within their natural habitats using conventional photography, underscored by the emergence of machine learning technologies. We used the leopard seal, \emph{Hydrurga…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Jorge Yero Salazar , Pablo Rivas , Renato Borras-Chavez , Sarah Kienle