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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 requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

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

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

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

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun

Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in new approaches improving the accuracy of semantic segmentation in a weakly supervised setting, i.e. with only image-level labels available for training. However, this has come at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Nikita Araslanov , Stefan Roth

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with only image-level supervision is a challenging task. Most existing methods exploit Class Activation Maps (CAM) to generate pixel-level pseudo labels for supervised training. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Ruiwen Li , Zheda Mai , Chiheb Trabelsi , Zhibo Zhang , Jongseong Jang , Scott Sanner

Semantic image segmentation is a principal problem in computer vision, where the aim is to correctly classify each individual pixel of an image into a semantic label. Its widespread use in many areas, including medical imaging and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Vladimir Nekrasov , Janghoon Ju , Jaesik Choi

With the increase in the number of image data and the lack of corresponding labels, weakly supervised learning has drawn a lot of attention recently in computer vision tasks, especially in the fine-grained semantic segmentation problem. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Ke Zhang , Sihong Chen , Qi Ju , Yong Jiang , Yucong Li , Xin He

This paper studies semi-supervised learning of semantic segmentation, which assumes that only a small portion of training images are labeled and the others remain unlabeled. The unlabeled images are usually assigned pseudo labels to be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Donghyeon Kwon , Suha Kwak

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task in histopathology image analysis. Typically, such segmentation tasks require significant effort to manually generate accurate pixel-wise annotations for fully supervised training. To alleviate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Hui Qu , Pengxiang Wu , Qiaoying Huang , Jingru Yi , Zhennan Yan , Kang Li , Gregory M. Riedlinger , Subhajyoti De , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

The deficiency of segmentation labels is one of the main obstacles to semantic segmentation in the wild. To alleviate this issue, we present a novel framework that generates segmentation labels of images given their image-level class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jiwoon Ahn , Suha Kwak

Methods that move towards less supervised scenarios are key for image segmentation, as dense labels demand significant human intervention. Generally, the annotation burden is mitigated by labeling datasets with weaker forms of supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Lesion segmentation on nasal endoscopic images is challenging due to its complex lesion features. Fully-supervised deep learning methods achieve promising performance with pixel-level annotations but impose a significant annotation burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pengyu Jie , Wanquan Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Yihui Wen , Rui He , Weiping Wen , Pengcheng Li , Jintao Zhang , Deyu Meng

Compared with expensive pixel-wise annotations, image-level labels make it possible to learn semantic segmentation in a weakly-supervised manner. Within this pipeline, the class activation map (CAM) is obtained and further processed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Yicong Hong , Nick Barnes