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We present a technique for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL), building on the observation that WSOL algorithms usually work better on images with bigger objects. Instead of training the object detector on the entire training set…

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Object detection is a challenging task in visual understanding domain, and even more so if the supervision is to be weak. Recently, few efforts to handle the task without expensive human annotations is established by promising deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Ali Diba , Vivek Sharma , Ali Pazandeh , Hamed Pirsiavash , Luc Van Gool

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is a challenging task aiming to localize objects with only image-level supervision. Recent works apply visual transformer to WSOL and achieve significant success by exploiting the long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Pingyu Wu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha

Localizing objects with weak supervision in an image is a key problem of the research in computer vision community. Many existing Weakly-Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) approaches tackle this problem by estimating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Pei Lv , Haiyu Yu , Junxiao Xue , Junjin Cheng , Lisha Cui , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD), using only image-level annotations to train object detectors, is of growing importance in object recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel deep network for WSOD. Unlike previous networks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Song Bai , Wei Shen , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu , Alan Yuille

In this work a novel approach for weakly supervised object detection that incorporates pointwise mutual information is presented. A fully convolutional neural network architecture is applied in which the network learns one filter per object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Rene Grzeszick , Sebastian Sudholt , Gernot A. Fink

The deep generative adversarial networks (GAN) recently have been shown to be promising for different computer vision applications, like image edit- ing, synthesizing high resolution images, generating videos, etc. These networks and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Ali Diba , Vivek Sharma , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Luc Van Gool

Weakly supervised object localization(WSOL) remains an open problem given the deficiency of finding object extent information using a classification network. Although prior works struggled to localize objects through various spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Xingjia Pan , Yingguo Gao , Zhiwen Lin , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Haolei Yuan , Feiyue Huang , Changsheng Xu

In the weakly supervised localization setting, supervision is given as an image-level label. We propose to employ an image classifier $f$ and to train a generative network $g$ that outputs, given the input image, a per-pixel weight map that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tal Shaharabany , Lior Wolf

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL), which aims to localize objects by only using image-level labels, has attracted much attention because of its low annotation cost in real applications. Current studies focus on the Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xi Yang , Songsong Duan , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Weakly supervised object detection has recently received much attention, since it only requires image-level labels instead of the bounding-box labels consumed in strongly supervised learning. Nevertheless, the save in labeling expense is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Jiajie Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Rui Zhang

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

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted significant attention in recent years, as it does not require box-level annotations. State-of-the-art methods generally adopt a multi-module network, which employs WSDDN as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuelin Guo , Haoyu He , Zhiyuan Chen , Zitong Huang , Renhao Lu , Lu Shi , Zejun Wang , Weizhe Zhang

This work addresses the task of class-incremental weakly supervised object localization (CI-WSOL). The goal is to incrementally learn object localization for novel classes using only image-level annotations while retaining the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Sejin Park , Taehyung Lee , Yeejin Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

Weakly supervised learning of object detection is an important problem in image understanding that still does not have a satisfactory solution. In this paper, we address this problem by exploiting the power of deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) is a challenging task when provided with image category supervision but required to simultaneously learn object locations and object detectors. Many WSOD approaches adopt multiple instance learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Fang Wan , Chang Liu , Wei Ke , Xiangyang Ji , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize target objects in images using only image-level labels. Despite recent progress, many approaches still rely on multi-stage pipelines or full fine-tuning of large backbones, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Arian Sabaghi , José Oramas

In this paper, we address the problem of weakly supervised object localization (WSL), which trains a detection network on the dataset with only image-level annotations. The proposed approach is built on the observation that the proposal set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Wenju Xu , Yuanwei Wu , Wenchi Ma , Guanghui Wang

Weakly supervised object detection aims at learning precise object detectors, given image category labels. In recent prevailing works, this problem is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning module guided by an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaoyan Li , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) is a task that detects objects in an image using a model trained only on image-level annotations. Current state-of-the-art models benefit from self-supervised instance-level supervision, but since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jinhwan Seo , Wonho Bae , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh , Daijin Kim