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We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly provided and then incorporated into the training process. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 James R. Clough , Nicholas Byrne , Ilkay Oksuz , Veronika A. Zimmer , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Despite the remarkable progress, weakly supervised segmentation approaches are still inferior to their fully supervised counterparts. We obverse the performance gap mainly comes from their limitation on learning to produce high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yunchao Wei , Huaxin Xiao , Honghui Shi , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Thomas S. Huang

Current semantic segmentation methods focus only on mining "local" context, i.e., dependencies between pixels within individual images, by context-aggregation modules (e.g., dilated convolution, neural attention) or structure-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Fisher Yu , Jifeng Dai , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

High-resolution hyperspectral images (HSIs) contain the response of each pixel in different spectral bands, which can be used to effectively distinguish various objects in complex scenes. While HSI cameras have become low cost, algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Yuxing Huang , Shaodi You , Ying Fu , Qiu Shen

Being able to segment unseen classes not observed during training is an important technical challenge in deep learning, because of its potential to reduce the expensive annotation required for semantic segmentation. Prior zero-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Giuseppe Pastore , Fabio Cermelli , Yongqin Xian , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata , Barbara Caputo

Semantic segmentation is a powerful method to facilitate visual scene understanding. Each pixel is assigned a label according to a pre-defined list of object classes and semantic entities. This becomes very useful as a means to summarize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Marc Bosch , Gordon A. Christie , Christopher M. Gifford

Sparse encoders offer high-precision retrieval by representing term importance within a vocabulary space, yet their English-centric structures pose a critical impediment to language transfer for non-English languages. To overcome this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Seongtae Hong , Youngjoon Jang , Jia-Heui Ju , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

Semantic segmentation based on sparse annotation has advanced in recent years. It labels only part of each object in the image, leaving the remainder unlabeled. Most of the existing approaches are time-consuming and often necessitate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Hui Su , Yue Ye , Wei Hua , Lechao Cheng , Mingli Song

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

Semantic segmentation demands dense pixel-level annotations, which can be prohibitively expensive - especially under extremely constrained labeling budgets. In this paper, we address the problem of low-budget active learning for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jeongin Kim , Wonho Bae , YouLee Han , Giyeong Oh , Youngjae Yu , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh

We propose a weakly-supervised framework for the semantic segmentation of circular-scan synthetic-aperture-sonar (CSAS) imagery. The first part of our framework is trained in a supervised manner, on image-level labels, to uncover a set of…

Recently deep neural networks, which require a large amount of annotated samples, have been widely applied in nuclei instance segmentation of H\&E stained pathology images. However, it is inefficient and unnecessary to label all pixels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Wei Lou , Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Xiang Wan

This paper addresses semi-supervised semantic segmentation by exploiting a small set of images with pixel-level annotations (strong supervisions) and a large set of images with only image-level annotations (weak supervisions). Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Rumeng Yi , Yaping Huang , Qingji Guan , Mengyang Pu , Runsheng Zhang

Few-shot semantic segmentation addresses the learning task in which only few images with ground truth pixel-level labels are available for the novel classes of interest. One is typically required to collect a large mount of data (i.e., base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yuan-Hao Lee , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

We present a comprehensive framework for structured sparse coding and modeling extending the recent ideas of using learnable fast regressors to approximate exact sparse codes. For this purpose, we develop a novel block-coordinate proximal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Alex Bronstein , Pablo Sprechmann , Guillermo Sapiro

Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

Deep neural networks are powerful tools for biomedical image segmentation. These models are often trained with heavy supervision, relying on pairs of images and corresponding voxel-level labels. However, obtaining segmentations of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-30 Evan M. Yu , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Adrian V. Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Accurate estimation of the positions and shapes of microscale objects is crucial for automated imaging-guided manipulation using a non-contact technique such as optical tweezers. Perception methods that use traditional computer vision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Ekta U. Samani , Wei Guo , Ashis G. Banerjee

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) shows great promise for surgical applications, offering detailed insights into biological tissue differences beyond what the naked eye can perceive. Refined labelling efforts are underway to train vision systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Junwen Wang , Oscar Maccormac , William Rochford , Aaron Kujawa , Jonathan Shapey , Tom Vercauteren