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Human skin segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision and biometric systems, yet it poses several challenges such as variability in skin color, pose, and illumination. This paper presents a robust data-driven skin segmentation method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Kooshan Hashemifard , Pau Climent-Perez , Francisco Florez-Revuelta

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

We propose a novel weakly supervised method to improve the boundary of the 3D segmented nuclei utilizing an over-segmented image. This is motivated by the observation that current state-of-the-art deep learning methods do not result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 S. Shailja , Jiaxiang Jiang , B. S. Manjunath

Recently proposed methods for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation have achieved impressive performance in predicting pixel classes despite being trained with only image labels which lack positional information. Because image annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Lyndon Chan , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) enables finding an object using a dataset without any localization information. By simply training a classification model using only image-level annotations, the feature map of the model can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jeesoo Kim , Junsuk Choe , Sangdoo Yun , Nojun Kwak

Fully supervised change detection methods require difficult to procure pixel-level labels, while weakly supervised approaches can be trained with image-level labels. However, most of these approaches require a combination of changed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Philipp Andermatt , Radu Timofte

Photovoltaic cells are electronic devices that convert light energy to electricity, forming the backbone of solar energy harvesting systems. An essential step in the manufacturing process for photovoltaic cells is visual quality inspection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Carol Xu , Mahmoud Famouri , Gautam Bathla , Saeejith Nair , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Alexander Wong

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

Reliable classification and detection of certain medical conditions, in images, with state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, require vast amounts of pixel-wise annotation. However, the public availability of such datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Erik Ostrowski , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Muhammad Shafique

Trained using only image class label, deep weakly supervised methods allow image classification and ROI segmentation for interpretability. Despite their success on natural images, they face several challenges over histology data where ROI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Soufiane Belharbi , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

While there are novel point cloud semantic segmentation schemes that continuously surpass state-of-the-art results, the success of learning an effective model usually rely on the availability of abundant labeled data. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao

Semantic segmentation is a crucial step in many Earth observation tasks. Large quantity of pixel-level annotation is required to train deep networks for semantic segmentation. Earth observation techniques are applied to varieties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Sudipan Saha , Lichao Mou , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging task aiming to learn the segmentation labels from class-level labels. In the literature, exploiting the information obtained from Class Activation Maps (CAMs) is widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Cenk Bircanoglu , Nafiz Arica

Sclera segmentation is crucial for developing automatic eye-related medical computer-aided diagnostic systems, as well as for personal identification and verification, because the sclera contains distinct personal features. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Guanjun Wang , Lu Wang , Ning Niu , Qiaoyi Yao , Yixuan Wang , Sufen Ren , Shengchao Chen

The need for labour intensive pixel-wise annotation is a major limitation of many fully supervised learning methods for segmenting bioimages that can contain numerous object instances with thin separations. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We present a weak to strong generalization methodology for fully automated training of a multi-head extension of the Mask-RCNN method with efficient channel attention for reliable segmentation of overlapping cell nuclei in multiplex cyclic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Lin Bai , Xiaoyang Li , Liqiang Huang , Quynh Nguyen , Hien Van Nguyen , Saurabh Prasad , Dragan Maric , John Redell , Pramod Dash , Badrinath Roysam

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) techniques explore individual regularization strategies to refine Class Activation Maps (CAMs). In this work, we first analyze complementary WSSS techniques in the literature, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Lucas David , Helio Pedrini , Zanoni Dias

Cell shape analysis is important in biomedical research. Deep learning methods may perform to segment individual cells if they use sufficient training data that the boundary of each cell is annotated. However, it is very time-consuming for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Kazuya Nishimura , Dai Fei Elmer Ker , Ryoma Bise

The impact of soiling on solar panels is an important and well-studied problem in renewable energy sector. In this paper, we present the first convolutional neural network (CNN) based approach for solar panel soiling and defect analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sachin Mehta , Amar P. Azad , Saneem A. Chemmengath , Vikas Raykar , Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu