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In the face of scarcity in detailed training annotations, the ability to perform object localization tasks in real-time with weak-supervision is very valuable. However, the computational cost of generating and evaluating region proposals is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Amogh Gudi , Nicolai van Rosmalen , Marco Loog , Jan van Gemert

Class Activation Map (CAM) has emerged as a popular tool for weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS), allowing the localization of object regions in an image using only image-level labels. However, existing CAM methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Songhe Deng , Wei Zhuo , Jinheng Xie , Linlin Shen

Decisions made by convolutional neural networks(CNN) can be understood and explained by visualizing discriminative regions on images. To this end, Class Activation Map (CAM) based methods were proposed as powerful interpretation tools,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao , Weichuan Zhang

Weakly-supervised learning approaches have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the effort required for human annotations in training neural networks. This paper investigates a framework for weakly-supervised object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Byeongkeun Kang , Sinhae Cha , Yeejin Lee

Weakly supervised object localization is a challenging task in which the object of interest should be localized while learning its appearance. State-of-the-art methods recycle the architecture of a standard CNN by using the activation maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Akhil Meethal , Marco Pedersoli , Soufiane Belharbi , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised image segmentation trained with image-level labels usually suffers from inaccurate coverage of object areas during the generation of the pseudo groundtruth. This is because the object activation maps are trained with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Weide Liu , Xiangfei Kong , Tzu-Yi Hung , Guosheng Lin

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects by only utilizing image-level labels. Class activation maps (CAMs) are the commonly used features to achieve WSOL. However, previous CAM-based methods did not take full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jun Wei , Qin Wang , Zhen Li , Sheng Wang , S. Kevin Zhou , Shuguang Cui

We aim to localize objects in images using image-level supervision only. Previous approaches to this problem mainly focus on discriminative object regions and often fail to locate precise object boundaries. We address this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Vadim Kantorov , Maxime Oquab , Minsu Cho , Ivan Laptev

Weakly supervised instance segmentation with image-level labels, instead of expensive pixel-level masks, remains unexplored. In this paper, we tackle this challenging problem by exploiting class peak responses to enable a classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Yanzhao Zhou , Yi Zhu , Qixiang Ye , Qiang Qiu , Jianbin Jiao

Weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) has gained popularity over the last years for its promise to train localization models with only image-level labels. Since the seminal WSOL work of class activation mapping (CAM), the field has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Junsuk Choe , Seong Joon Oh , Sanghyuk Chun , Seungho Lee , Zeynep Akata , Hyunjung Shim

Class activation map (CAM) has been widely used to highlight image regions that contribute to class predictions. Despite its simplicity and computational efficiency, CAM often struggles to identify discriminative regions that distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ziheng Zhang , Jianyang Gu , Arpita Chowdhury , Zheda Mai , David Carlyn , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Yu Su , Wei-Lun Chao

In recent years, weakly supervised models have aided in mass detection using mammography images, decreasing the need for pixel-level annotations. However, most existing models in the literature rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Vicente Sampaio , Filipe R. Cordeiro

Weakly-supervised object localization methods tend to fail for object classes that consistently co-occur with the same background elements, e.g. trains on tracks. We propose a method to overcome these failures by adding a very small amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Alexander Kolesnikov , Christoph H. Lampert

Extracting class activation maps (CAM) is arguably the most standard step of generating pseudo masks for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). Yet, we find that the crux of the unsatisfactory pseudo masks is the binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Tan Wang , Xiongwei Wu , Xian-Sheng Hua , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun

Nowadays, deep neural networks for object detection in images are very prevalent. However, due to the complexity of these networks, users find it hard to understand why these objects are detected by models. We proposed Gaussian Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Quoc Khanh Nguyen , Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen , Vo Thanh Khang Nguyen , Van Binh Truong , Quoc Hung Cao

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as an appealing alternative to alleviate the need for large labeled datasets in semantic segmentation. Most current approaches exploit class activation maps (CAMs), which can be generated from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Gaurav Patel , Jose Dolz

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) methods allow training models to classify images and localize ROIs. WSOL only requires low-cost image-class annotations yet provides a visually interpretable classifier. Standard WSOL methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Alexis Guichemerre , Soufiane Belharbi , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

In weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level class labels, a problem with CNN-based Class Activation Maps (CAM) is that they tend to activate the most discriminative local regions of objects. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Izumi Fujimori , Masaki Oono , Masami Shishibori

Interpreting the decision-making process of deep convolutional neural networks remains a central challenge in achieving trustworthy and transparent artificial intelligence. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques, particularly Class Activation Map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hajar Dekdegue , Moncef Garouani , Josiane Mothe , Jordan Bernigaud

Planet-scale photo geolocalization involves the intricate task of estimating the geographic location depicted in an image purely based on its visual features. While deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 David Faget , José Luis Lisani , Miguel Colom