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Manual annotation of medical images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, posing a significant bottleneck in the development and deployment of robust medical imaging AI systems. This paper introduces a novel hands-free Human-AI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yizhe Zhang

3D semantic segmentation is a fundamental building block for several scene understanding applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and AR/VR. Several state-of-the-art semantic segmentation models suffer from the part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Anirud Thyagharajan , Benjamin Ummenhofer , Prashant Laddha , Om J Omer , Sreenivas Subramoney

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

We investigate a principle way to progressively mine discriminative object regions using classification networks to address the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation problems. Classification networks are only responsive to small and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yunchao Wei , Jiashi Feng , Xiaodan Liang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yao Zhao , Shuicheng Yan

We propose ViewAL, a novel active learning strategy for semantic segmentation that exploits viewpoint consistency in multi-view datasets. Our core idea is that inconsistencies in model predictions across viewpoints provide a very reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Yawar Siddiqui , Julien Valentin , Matthias Nießner

Autonomous vehicles are the next revolution in the automobile industry and they are expected to revolutionize the future of transportation. Understanding the scenario in which the autonomous vehicle will operate is critical for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Naveen Mathews Renji , Kruthika K , Manasa Keshavamurthy , Pooja Kumari , S. Rajarajeswari

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

Obtaining human per-pixel labels for semantic segmentation is incredibly laborious, often making labeled dataset construction prohibitively expensive. Here, we endeavor to overcome this problem with a novel algorithm that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

High-quality training data play a key role in image segmentation tasks. Usually, pixel-level annotations are expensive, laborious and time-consuming for the large volume of training data. To reduce labelling cost and improve segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuying Hao , Yi Liu , Zewu Wu , Lin Han , Yizhou Chen , Guowei Chen , Lutao Chu , Shiyu Tang , Zhiliang Yu , Zeyu Chen , Baohua Lai

This paper presents a semi-supervised learning framework for a customized semantic segmentation task using multiview image streams. A key challenge of the customized task lies in the limited accessibility of the labeled data due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yuan Yao , Hyun Soo Park

Autonomous vehicles need to have a semantic understanding of the three-dimensional world around them in order to reason about their environment. State of the art methods use deep neural networks to predict semantic classes for each point in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Larissa T. Triess , David Peter , Christoph B. Rist , J. Marius Zöllner

Deep neural networks have enabled major progresses in semantic segmentation. However, even the most advanced neural architectures suffer from important limitations. First, they are vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting, i.e. they perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Buló , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

Active learning is considered a viable solution to alleviate the contradiction between the high dependency of deep learning-based segmentation methods on annotated data and the expensive pixel-level annotation cost of medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jun Shi , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Hong An , Xudong Xue , Bing Yan

Semantic image segmentation is one of the most important tasks in medical image analysis. Most state-of-the-art deep learning methods require a large number of accurately annotated examples for model training. However, accurate annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ning Zhang , Susan Francis , Rayaz Malik , Xin Chen

In this work, we study the problem of training deep networks for semantic image segmentation using only a fraction of annotated images, which may significantly reduce human annotation efforts. Particularly, we propose a strategy that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Aniket Agarwal , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

As acquiring pixel-wise annotations of real-world images for semantic segmentation is a costly process, a model can instead be trained with more accessible synthetic data and adapted to real images without requiring their annotations. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

We present an interactive approach to train a deep neural network pixel classifier for the segmentation of neuronal structures. An interactive training scheme reduces the extremely tedious manual annotation task that is typically required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Felix Gonda , Verena Kaynig , Ray Thouis , Daniel Haehn , Jeff Lichtman , Toufiq Parag , Hanspeter Pfister

Semantic segmentation is a critical step in automated image interpretation and analysis where pixels are classified into one or more predefined semantically meaningful classes. Deep learning approaches for semantic segmentation rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tushar Kataria , Beatrice Knudsen , Shireen Elhabian

Coarsely-labeled semantic segmentation annotations are easy to obtain, but therefore bear the risk of losing edge details and introducing background pixels. Impeded by the inherent noise, existing coarse annotations are only taken as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jingchao Liu , Ye Du , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Despite the recent success of deep-learning based semantic segmentation, deploying a pre-trained road scene segmenter to a city whose images are not presented in the training set would not achieve satisfactory performance due to dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Yi-Hsin Chen , Wei-Yu Chen , Yu-Ting Chen , Bo-Cheng Tsai , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min Sun