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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

Semantic segmentation aims to classify every pixel of an input image. Considering the difficulty of acquiring dense labels, researchers have recently been resorting to weak labels to alleviate the annotation burden of segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yazhou Yao , Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Chuanyi Zhang , Fumin Shen , Qi Wu , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

Video salient object detection models trained on pixel-wise dense annotation have achieved excellent performance, yet obtaining pixel-by-pixel annotated datasets is laborious. Several works attempt to use scribble annotations to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shuyong Gao , Haozhe Xing , Wei Zhang , Yan Wang , Qianyu Guo , Wenqiang Zhang

Recently, unsupervised salient object detection (USOD) has gained increasing attention due to its annotation-free nature. However, current methods mainly focus on specific tasks such as RGB and RGB-D, neglecting the potential for task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yao Yuan , Wutao Liu , Pan Gao , Qun Dai , Jie Qin

In this paper, we address the detection of co-occurring salient objects (CoSOD) in an image group using frequency statistics in an unsupervised manner, which further enable us to develop a semi-supervised method. While previous works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Souradeep Chakraborty , Shujon Naha , Muhammet Bastan , Amit Kumar K C , Dimitris Samaras

The success of fully supervised saliency detection models depends on a large number of pixel-wise labeling. In this paper, we work on bounding-box based weakly-supervised saliency detection to relieve the labeling effort. Given the bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Mengqi He , Jing Zhang , Wenxin Yu

The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang

Collecting large-scale medical datasets with fine-grained annotations is time-consuming and requires experts. For this reason, weakly supervised learning aims at optimising machine learning models using weaker forms of annotations, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Existing salient instance detection (SID) methods typically learn from pixel-level annotated datasets. In this paper, we present the first weakly-supervised approach to the SID problem. Although weak supervision has been considered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Salient object detection aims at detecting the most visually distinct objects and producing the corresponding masks. As the cost of pixel-level annotations is high, image tags are usually used as weak supervisions. However, an image tag can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xiaoyang Zheng , Xin Tan , Jie Zhou , Lizhuang Ma , Rynson W. H. Lau

Deep Learning-based Unsupervised Salient Object Detection (USOD) mainly relies on the noisy saliency pseudo labels that have been generated from traditional handcraft methods or pre-trained networks. To cope with the noisy labels problem, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Huajun Zhou , Bo Qiao , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

The high cost of pixel-level annotations makes it appealing to train saliency detection models with weak supervision. However, a single weak supervision source usually does not contain enough information to train a well-performing model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yu Zeng , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , Lihe Zhang , Mingyang Qian , Yizhou Yu

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based salient object detection methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance and outperform those unsupervised methods with a wide margin. In this paper, we propose to integrate deep and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Jing Zhang , Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Fatih Porikli , Mingyi He

Existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods usually utilize the results of pre-trained saliency detection (SD) models without explicitly modeling the connections between the two tasks, which is not the most efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Yu Zeng , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , Lihe Zhang

Weakly supervised salient object detection (WSOD) targets to train a CNNs-based saliency network using only low-cost annotations. Existing WSOD methods take various techniques to pursue single "high-quality" pseudo label from low-cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Huchuan Lu

In this work, we propose an efficient and effective approach for unconstrained salient object detection in images using deep convolutional neural networks. Instead of generating thousands of candidate bounding boxes and refining them, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Mahyar Najibi , Fan Yang , Qiaosong Wang , Robinson Piramuthu

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

The eye-tracking video saliency prediction (VSP) task and video salient object detection (VSOD) task both focus on the most attractive objects in video and show the result in the form of predictive heatmaps and pixel-level saliency masks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Qin , Runmin Cong , Gen Zhan , Yiting Liao , Sam Kwong

Recent progress on saliency detection is substantial, benefiting mostly from the explosive development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Semantic segmentation and saliency detection algorithms developed lately have been mostly based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiao-Wei Hu , Ali Borji , Zhuowen Tu , Philip Torr

Image saliency detection has recently witnessed rapid progress due to deep convolutional neural networks. However, none of the existing methods is able to identify object instances in the detected salient regions. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu