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Semantic segmentation is a challenging vision problem that usually necessitates the collection of large amounts of finely annotated data, which is often quite expensive to obtain. Coarsely annotated data provides an interesting alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Isay Katsman , Rohun Tripathi , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie

Given an input image and set of class names, panoptic segmentation aims to label each pixel in an image with class labels and instance labels. In comparison, Open Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation aims to facilitate the segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nafis Sadeq , Qingfeng Liu , Mostafa El-Khamy

In recent years, computer vision has transformed fields such as medical imaging, object recognition, and geospatial analytics. One of the fundamental tasks in computer vision is semantic image segmentation, which is vital for precise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dinar Sharafutdinov , Stanislav Kuskov , Saian Protasov , Alexey Voropaev

This work proposes a process for efficiently training a point-wise object detector that enables localizing objects and computing their 6D poses in cluttered and occluded scenes. Accurate pose estimation is typically a requirement for robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Jean-Philippe Mercier , Chaitanya Mitash , Philippe Giguère , Abdeslam Boularias

Annotating medical images, particularly for organ segmentation, is laborious and time-consuming. For example, annotating an abdominal organ requires an estimated rate of 30-60 minutes per CT volume based on the expertise of an annotator and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Chongyu Qu , Tiezheng Zhang , Hualin Qiao , Jie Liu , Yucheng Tang , Alan Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

3D object detection has become indispensable in the field of autonomous driving. To date, gratifying breakthroughs have been recorded in 3D object detection research, attributed to deep learning. However, deep learning algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yucheng Zhang , Masaki Fukuda , Yasunori Ishii , Kyoko Ohshima , Takayoshi Yamashita

Photo applications offer tools for annotation via text and stickers. Ideophones, mimetic and onomatopoeic words, which are common in graphic novels, have yet to be explored for photo annotation use. We present a method for automatic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-12 David A. Shamma , Tony Dunnigan , Lyndon Kennedy

Learning semantic segmentation requires pixel-wise annotations, which can be time-consuming and expensive. To reduce the annotation cost, we propose a superpixel-based active learning (AL) framework, which collects a dominant label per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak , Jungseul Ok

Given an image, we would like to learn to detect objects belonging to particular object categories. Common object detection methods train on large annotated datasets which are annotated in terms of bounding boxes that contain the object of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Soumya Roy , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Arijit Biswas

Annotating tens or hundreds of tiny objects in a given image is laborious yet crucial for a multitude of Computer Vision tasks. Such imagery typically contains objects from various categories, yet the multi-class interactive annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chunggi Lee , Seonwook Park , Heon Song , Jeongun Ryu , Sanghoon Kim , Haejoon Kim , Sérgio Pereira , Donggeun Yoo

Semantic segmentation tasks based on weakly supervised condition have been put forward to achieve a lightweight labeling process. For simple images that only include a few categories, researches based on image-level annotations have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Sheng Yi , Yanxian Chen

A central challenge for the task of semantic segmentation is the prohibitive cost of obtaining dense pixel-level annotations to supervise model training. In this work, we show that in order to achieve a good level of segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Gyungin Shin , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie

Panoptic segmentation is a scene parsing task which unifies semantic segmentation and instance segmentation into one single task. However, the current state-of-the-art studies did not take too much concern on inference time. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Chia-Yuan Chang , Shuo-En Chang , Pei-Yung Hsiao , Li-Chen Fu

Panoptic segmentation unifies semantic and instance segmentation and thus delivers a semantic class label and, for so-called thing classes, also an instance label per pixel. The differentiation of distinct objects of the same class with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tuan Nguyen , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

With the rapid adoption of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) across diverse applications, there is a pressing need for task-centered, high-quality training data. A key limitation of current training datasets is their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xiaoyu Lin , Aniket Ghorpade , Hansheng Zhu , Justin Qiu , Dea Rrozhani , Monica Lama , Mick Yang , Zixuan Bian , Ruohan Ren , Alan B. Hong , Jiatao Gu , Chris Callison-Burch

Imitation learning enables robots to acquire complex manipulation skills from human demonstrations, but current methods rely solely on low-level sensorimotor data while ignoring the rich semantic knowledge humans naturally possess about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jakob Karalus , Friedhelm Schwenker

One of the problems on the way to successful implementation of neural networks is the quality of annotation. For instance, different annotators can annotate images in a different way and very often their decisions do not match exactly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Roman Khudorozhkov , Alexander Koryagin , Alexey Kozhevin

Automatic medical image segmentation plays a critical role in scientific research and medical care. Existing high-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large training datasets with high-quality manual annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shanshan Wang , Cheng Li , Rongpin Wang , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hongna Tan , Yaping Wu , Xinfeng Liu , Hui Sun , Rui Yang , Xin Liu , Jie Chen , Huihui Zhou , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hairong Zheng

Most state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods rely on large amounts of pixel-precise ground-truth annotations for training, which are expensive to create. Interactive segmentation networks help generate such annotations based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Amit Kumar Rana , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Training object class detectors typically requires a large set of images with objects annotated by bounding boxes. However, manually drawing bounding boxes is very time consuming. In this paper we greatly reduce annotation time by proposing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Jasper R. R. Uijlings , Frank Keller , Vittorio Ferrari