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Recently, methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) achieved impressive success in semantic segmentation tasks. However, challenges such as the class imbalance and the uncertainty in the pixel-labeling process are not completely…

A key challenge in training neural networks for a given medical imaging task is often the difficulty of obtaining a sufficient number of manually labeled examples. In contrast, textual imaging reports, which are often readily available in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Gongbo Liang , Connor Greenwell , Yu Zhang , Xiaoqin Wang , Ramakanth Kavuluru , Nathan Jacobs

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide excellent performance when used for image classification. The classical method of training CNNs is by labeling images in a supervised manner as in "input image belongs to this label" (Positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Youngdong Kim , Junho Yim , Juseung Yun , Junmo Kim

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

Most Neural Networks (NNs) for classification are trained using Cross-Entropy as a loss function. This approach requires the model to have an explicit classification layer. However, there exist alternative approaches, such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Leonardo Arrighi , Julia Eva Belloni , Aurélie Gallet , Ivan Gentile , Matteo Lippi , Marco Zullich

Semi-supervised learning has demonstrated great potential in medical image segmentation by utilizing knowledge from unlabeled data. However, most existing approaches do not explicitly capture high-level semantic relations between distant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Qianying Liu , Xiao Gu , Paul Henderson , Fani Deligianni

Semi-supervised learning acts as an effective way to leverage massive unlabeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy, termed as Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning (SsCL), which combines the well-known contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yuhang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Robert. C. Qiu , Jie Li , Haohang Xu , Qi Tian

Contrastive pretraining techniques for text classification has been largely studied in an unsupervised setting. However, oftentimes labeled data from related tasks which share label semantics with current task is available. We hypothesize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Samujjwal Ghosh , Subhadeep Maji , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

We investigate a strategy for improving the efficiency of contrastive learning of visual representations by leveraging a small amount of supervised information during pre-training. We propose a semi-supervised loss, SuNCEt, based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Ballas , Lluis Castrejon , Michael Rabbat

Recent work has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be applied successfully in disparity estimation, but these methods still suffer from errors in regions of low-texture, occlusions and reflections. Concurrently, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Junming Zhang , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Video scene parsing incorporates temporal information, which can enhance the consistency and accuracy of predictions compared to image scene parsing. The added temporal dimension enables a more comprehensive understanding of the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Min Yan , Qianxiong Ning , Qian Wang

Deep learning architectures exhibit a critical drop of performance due to catastrophic forgetting when they are required to incrementally learn new tasks. Contemporary incremental learning frameworks focus on image classification and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Deep learning with noisy labels is an interesting challenge in weakly supervised learning. Despite their significant learning capacity, CNNs have a tendency to overfit in the presence of samples with noisy labels. Alleviating this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yan Han , Soumava Kumar Roy , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown excellent performance in object recognition tasks and dense classification problems such as semantic segmentation. However, training deep neural networks on large and sparse datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Lorenz Berger , Eoin Hyde , M. Jorge Cardoso , Sebastien Ourselin

The rapid development of deep learning has made a great progress in image segmentation, one of the fundamental tasks of computer vision. However, the current segmentation algorithms mostly rely on the availability of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Wei Shen , Zelin Peng , Xuehui Wang , Huayu Wang , Jiazhong Cen , Dongsheng Jiang , Lingxi Xie , Xiaokang Yang , Qi Tian

Adversarial training has been shown to produce state of the art results for generative image modeling. In this paper we propose an adversarial training approach to train semantic segmentation models. We train a convolutional semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Pauline Luc , Camille Couprie , Soumith Chintala , Jakob Verbeek

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been immensely successful in many high-level computer vision tasks given large labeled datasets. However, for video semantic object segmentation, a domain where labels are scarce, effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Huiling Wang , Tapani Raiko , Lasse Lensu , Tinghuai Wang , Juha Karhunen

Human observers can learn to recognize new categories of images from a handful of examples, yet doing so with artificial ones remains an open challenge. We hypothesize that data-efficient recognition is enabled by representations which make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Olivier J. Hénaff , Aravind Srinivas , Jeffrey De Fauw , Ali Razavi , Carl Doersch , S. M. Ali Eslami , Aaron van den Oord

Fine-tuning a pre-trained language model via the contrastive learning framework with a large amount of unlabeled sentences or labeled sentence pairs is a common way to obtain high-quality sentence representations. Although the contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Tianduo Wang , Wei Lu

We explore the value of weak labels in learning transferable representations for medical images. Compared to hand-labeled datasets, weak or inexact labels can be acquired in large quantities at significantly lower cost and can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Boon Peng Yap , Beng Koon Ng