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While neural networks trained for semantic segmentation are essential for perception in autonomous driving, most current algorithms assume a fixed number of classes, presenting a major limitation when developing new autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Marvin Klingner , Andreas Bär , Philipp Donn , Tim Fingscheidt

The cost of drawing object bounding boxes (i.e. labeling) for millions of images is prohibitively high. For instance, labeling pedestrians in a regular urban image could take 35 seconds on average. Active learning aims to reduce the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Hamed H. Aghdam , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Joost van de Weijer , Antonio M. López

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 of satellite imagery plays a vital role in land cover mapping and environmental monitoring. However, annotating large-scale, high-resolution satellite datasets is costly and time consuming, especially when covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Gadi Hemanth Kumar , Athira Nambiar , Pankaj Bodani

This paper presents a simple yet effective two-stage framework for semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Unlike prior state-of-the-art semi-supervised segmentation methods that predominantly rely on pseudo supervision directly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Huimin Wu , Xiaomeng Li , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Historical maps are valuable resources that capture detailed geographical information from the past. However, these maps are typically available in printed formats, which are not conducive to modern computer-based analyses. Digitizing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yunshuang Yuan , Frank Thiemann , Monika Sester

While previous studies on image segmentation focus on handling severe (or explicit) label noise, real-world datasets also exhibit subtle (or implicit) label imperfections. These arise from inherent challenges, such as ambiguous object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yechan Kim , Dongho Yoon , Younkwan Lee , Unse Fatima , Hong Kook Kim , Songjae Lee , Sanga Park , Jeong Ho Park , Seonjong Kang , Moongu Jeon

Despite the great progress made by deep neural networks in the semantic segmentation task, traditional neural-networkbased methods typically suffer from a shortage of large amounts of pixel-level annotations. Recent progress in fewshot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Shuo Lei , Xuchao Zhang , Jianfeng He , Fanglan Chen , Chang-Tien Lu

To extract information at scale, researchers increasingly apply semantic segmentation techniques to remotely-sensed imagery. While fully-supervised learning enables accurate pixel-wise segmentation, compiling the exhaustive datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Simone Fobi , Terence Conlon , Jayant Taneja , Vijay Modi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Automatic medical image segmentation plays a critical role in scientific research and medical care. Existing high-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large training datasets with high-quality manual annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shanshan Wang , Cheng Li , Rongpin Wang , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hongna Tan , Yaping Wu , Xinfeng Liu , Hui Sun , Rui Yang , Xin Liu , Jie Chen , Huihui Zhou , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hairong Zheng

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task for robot navigation and safety. However, current supervised methods require a large amount of pixelwise annotations to yield accurate results. Labeling is a tedious and time consuming process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alina Marcu , Vlad Licaret , Dragos Costea , Marius Leordeanu

This paper proposes an active learning system for sound event detection (SED). It aims at maximizing the accuracy of a learned SED model with limited annotation effort. The proposed system analyzes an initially unlabeled audio dataset, from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Shuyang Zhao , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Semi-supervised learning is a challenging problem which aims to construct a model by learning from a limited number of labeled examples. Numerous methods have been proposed to tackle this problem, with most focusing on utilizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Peng Tu , Yawen Huang , Rongrong Ji , Feng Zheng , Ling Shao

Reducing the quantity of annotations required for supervised training is vital when labels are scarce and costly. This reduction is particularly important for semantic segmentation tasks involving 3D datasets, which are often significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Andrej Janda , Brandon Wagstaff , Edwin G. Ng , Jonathan Kelly

Accurate segmentation of the pelvic CTs is crucial for the clinical diagnosis of pelvic bone diseases and for planning patient-specific hip surgeries. With the emergence and advancements of deep learning for digital healthcare, several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Prabhakara Subramanya Jois , Aniketh Manjunath , Thomas Fevens

Nodule segmentation from breast ultrasound images is challenging yet essential for the diagnosis. Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) can help reduce time-consuming and cumbersome manual annotation. Unlike existing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Yuxin Zou , Chaoyu Chen , Jian Wang , Haoran Dou , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Jianqiao Zhou , Dong Ni

CNN visualization and interpretation methods, like class-activation maps (CAMs), are typically used to highlight the image regions linked to class predictions. These models allow to simultaneously classify images and extract class-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Soufiane Belharbi , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Deep neural networks have achieved satisfactory performance in piles of medical image analysis tasks. However the training of deep neural network requires a large amount of samples with high-quality annotations. In medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Jixin Wang , Sanping Zhou , Chaowei Fang , Le Wang , Jinjun Wang

Zero- and few-shot visual anomaly segmentation relies on powerful vision-language models that detect unseen anomalies using manually designed textual prompts. However, visual representations are inherently independent of language. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bin-Bin Gao