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Weakly supervised segmentation methods have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the reliance on costly pixel-level annotations during model training. However, the current weakly supervised nuclei segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Ye Zhang , Yifeng Wang , Zijie Fang , Hao Bian , Linghan Cai , Ziyue Wang , Yongbing Zhang

A significant bottleneck in training deep networks for part segmentation is the cost of obtaining detailed annotations. We propose a framework to exploit coarse labels such as figure-ground masks and keypoint locations that are readily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Oindrila Saha , Zezhou Cheng , Subhransu Maji

3D semantic scene understanding tasks have achieved great success with the emergence of deep learning, but often require a huge amount of manually annotated training data. To alleviate the annotation cost, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shichao Dong , Guosheng Lin

Effective crack detection is pivotal for the structural health monitoring and inspection of buildings. This task presents a formidable challenge to computer vision techniques due to the inherently subtle nature of cracks, which often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sara Shomal Zadeh , Sina Aalipour birgani , Meisam Khorshidi , Farhad Kooban

Weakly-supervised point cloud segmentation with extremely limited labels is highly desirable to alleviate the expensive costs of collecting densely annotated 3D points. This paper explores applying the consistency regularization that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhonghua Wu , Yicheng Wu , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai

Automatic crack detection and segmentation play a significant role in the whole system of unmanned aerial vehicle inspections. In this paper, we have implemented a deep learning framework for crack detection based on classical network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Kangcheng Liu

All current popular hand-crafted key-point detectors such as Harris corner, MSER, SIFT, SURF... rely on some specific pre-designed structures for the detection of corners, blobs, or junctions in an image. In this paper, a novel sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Thanh Hong-Phuoc , Yifeng He , Ling Guan

Sketches, with their expressive potential, allow humans to convey the essence of an object through even a rough contour. For the first time, we harness this expressive potential to improve segmentation performance in challenging tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ying Zang , Runlong Cao , Jianqi Zhang , Yidong Han , Ziyue Cao , Wenjun Hu , Didi Zhu , Lanyun Zhu , Zejian Li , Deyi Ji , Tianrun Chen

This paper addresses the problem of crack detection which is essential for health monitoring of built infrastructure. Our approach includes two stages, data collection using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and crack detection using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Manh Duong Phung , Van Truong Hoang , Tran Hiep Dinh , Quang Ha

Learning to localize and name object instances is a fundamental problem in vision, but state-of-the-art approaches rely on expensive bounding box supervision. While weakly supervised detection (WSOD) methods relax the need for boxes to that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Keren Ye , Mingda Zhang , Adriana Kovashka , Wei Li , Danfeng Qin , Jesse Berent

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation under image tags supervision is a challenging task as it directly associates high-level semantic to low-level appearance. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose an iterative bottom-up and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xiang Wang , Shaodi You , Xi Li , Huimin Ma

Ensuring the safety of surgical instruments requires reliable detection of visual defects. However, manual inspection is prone to error, and existing automated defect detection methods, typically trained on natural/industrial images, fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Joseph Huang , Yichi Zhang , Jingxi Yu , Wei Chen , Seunghyun Hwang , Qiang Qiu , Amy R. Reibman , Edward J. Delp , Fengqing Zhu

Monitoring surface cracks in infrastructure is crucial for structural health monitoring. Automatic visual inspection offers an effective solution, especially in hard-to-reach areas. Machine learning approaches have proven their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Florent Forest , Hugo Porta , Devis Tuia , Olga Fink

Identification of cracks is essential to assess the structural integrity of concrete infrastructure. However, robust crack segmentation remains a challenging task for computer vision systems due to the diverse appearance of concrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Achref Jaziri , Martin Mundt , Andres Fernandez Rodriguez , Visvanathan Ramesh

Detecting and segmenting cracks in infrastructure, such as roads and buildings, is crucial for safety and cost-effective maintenance. In spite of the potential of deep learning, there are challenges in achieving precise results and handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 June Moh Goo , Xenios Milidonis , Alessandro Artusi , Jan Boehm , Carlo Ciliberto

Crack detection on road surfaces is a critical measurement technology in the instrumentation domain, essential for ensuring infrastructure safety and transportation reliability. However, due to limited energy and low-resolution imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shuo Zhang

In this paper we introduce domain detection as a new natural language processing task. We argue that the ability to detect textual segments which are domain-heavy, i.e., sentences or phrases which are representative of and provide evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yumo Xu , Mirella Lapata

Graph classification plays a pivotal role in various domains, including pathology, where images can be represented as graphs. In this domain, images can be represented as graphs, where nodes might represent individual nuclei, and edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Aditya Prakash

Accurate healthcare prediction is essential for improving patient outcomes. Existing work primarily leverages advanced frameworks like attention or graph networks to capture the intricate collaborative (CO) signals in electronic health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Chuang Zhao , Hui Tang , Jiheng Zhang , Xiaomeng Li

We study the problem of object detection from a novel perspective in which annotation budget constraints are taken into consideration, appropriately coined Budget Aware Object Detection (BAOD). When provided with a fixed budget, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Alejandro Pardo , Mengmeng Xu , Ali Thabet , Pablo Arbelaez , Bernard Ghanem