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Computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic/instance segmentation rely on the painstaking annotation of large training datasets. In this paper, we propose LocTex that takes advantage of the low-cost localized textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhijian Liu , Simon Stent , Jie Li , John Gideon , Song Han

Pseudo-supervised learning methods have been shown to be effective for weakly supervised object localization tasks. However, the effectiveness depends on the powerful regularization ability of deep neural networks. Based on the assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kangbo Sun , Jie Zhu

Our brain can almost effortlessly decompose visual data streams into background and salient objects. Moreover, it can anticipate object motion and interactions, which are crucial abilities for conceptual planning and reasoning. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Manuel Traub , Sebastian Otte , Tobias Menge , Matthias Karlbauer , Jannik Thümmel , Martin V. Butz

We introduce count-guided weakly supervised localization (C-WSL), an approach that uses per-class object count as a new form of supervision to improve weakly supervised localization (WSL). C-WSL uses a simple count-based region selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Mingfei Gao , Ang Li , Ruichi Yu , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

We present a semi-supervised approach that localizes multiple unknown object instances in long videos. We start with a handful of labeled boxes and iteratively learn and label hundreds of thousands of object instances. We propose criteria…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Ishan Misra , Abhinav Shrivastava , Martial Hebert

This paper strives for spatio-temporal localization of human actions in videos. In the literature, the consensus is to achieve localization by training on bounding box annotations provided for each frame of each training video. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

This paper presents a general one-shot object localization algorithm called OneLoc. Current one-shot object localization or detection methods either rely on a slow exhaustive feature matching process or lack the ability to generalize to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yang You , Zhuochen Miao , Kai Xiong , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

When an object detector is deployed in a novel setting it often experiences a drop in performance. This paper studies how an embodied agent can automatically fine-tune a pre-existing object detector while exploring and acquiring images in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Gianluca Scarpellini , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Lorenzo Natale , Alessio Del Bue

We are interested in counting the number of instances of object classes in natural, everyday images. Previous counting approaches tackle the problem in restricted domains such as counting pedestrians in surveillance videos. Counts can also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Prithvijit Chattopadhyay , Ramakrishna Vedantam , Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Object detection (OD), a crucial vision task, remains challenged by the lack of large training datasets with precise object localization labels. In this work, we propose ALWOD, a new framework that addresses this problem by fusing active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yuting Wang , Velibor Ilic , Jiatong Li , Branislav Kisacanin , Vladimir Pavlovic

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD), where a detector is trained with only image-level annotations, is attracting more and more attention. As a method to obtain a well-performing detector, the detector and the instance labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

This paper tackles the challenge of point-supervised temporal action detection, wherein only a single frame is annotated for each action instance in the training set. Most of the current methods, hindered by the sparse nature of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Elahe Vahdani , Yingli Tian

Image captioning models have lately shown impressive results when applied to standard datasets. Switching to real-life scenarios, however, constitutes a challenge due to the larger variety of visual concepts which are not covered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Marco Cagrandi , Marcella Cornia , Matteo Stefanini , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Open-world object detection (OWOD) extends traditional object detection to identifying both known and unknown object, necessitating continuous model adaptation as new annotations emerge. Current approaches face significant limitations: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Junwen Duan , Wei Xue , Ziyao Kang , Shixia Liu , Jiazhi Xia

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wei Hua , Dingkang Liang , Jingyu Li , Xiaolong Liu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD), leveraging unlabeled data to boost object detectors, has become a hot topic recently. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving oriented objects common in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Dingkang Liang , Wei Hua , Chunsheng Shi , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

Object category localization is a challenging problem in computer vision. Standard supervised training requires bounding box annotations of object instances. This time-consuming annotation process is sidestepped in weakly supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Jakob Verbeek , Cordelia Schmid

3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving and robotic perception, yet its reliance on large-scale manually annotated data limits scalability and adaptability. To reduce annotation dependency, unsupervised and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yushen He , Lei Zhao , Weidong Chen

Existing salient instance detection (SID) methods typically learn from pixel-level annotated datasets. In this paper, we present the first weakly-supervised approach to the SID problem. Although weak supervision has been considered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau