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Sub-word segmentation is an essential pre-processing step for Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Existing work has shown that neural sub-word segmenters are better than Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE), however, they are inefficient as they require…

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Previous traditional approaches to unsupervised Chinese word segmentation (CWS) can be roughly classified into discriminative and generative models. The former uses the carefully designed goodness measures for candidate segmentation, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Zhiqing Sun , Zhi-Hong Deng

We propose a novel unsupervised image segmentation algorithm, which aims to segment an image into several coherent parts. It requires no user input, no supervised learning phase and assumes an unknown number of segments. It achieves this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Aleksandar Dimitriev , Matej Kristan

Methods that move towards less supervised scenarios are key for image segmentation, as dense labels demand significant human intervention. Generally, the annotation burden is mitigated by labeling datasets with weaker forms of supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Most recent neural semi-supervised learning algorithms rely on adding small perturbation to either the input vectors or their representations. These methods have been successful on computer vision tasks as the images form a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Alexander Hanbo Li , Abhinav Sethy

Speech quality estimation has recently undergone a paradigm shift from human-hearing expert designs to machine-learning models. However, current models rely mainly on supervised learning, which is time-consuming and expensive for label…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Szu-Wei Fu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yu Tsao , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Compressing self-supervised models has become increasingly necessary, as self-supervised models become larger. While previous approaches have primarily focused on compressing the model size, shortening sequences is also effective in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yen Meng , Hsuan-Jui Chen , Jiatong Shi , Shinji Watanabe , Paola Garcia , Hung-yi Lee , Hao Tang

The distributed and continuous representations used by neural networks are at odds with representations employed in linguistics, which are typically symbolic. Vector quantization has been proposed as a way to induce discrete neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Bertrand Higy , Lieke Gelderloos , Afra Alishahi , Grzegorz Chrupała

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

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

We propose an unsupervised image segmentation method using features from pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models. Inspired by classic spectral clustering approaches, we construct adjacency matrices from self-attention layers between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Daniela Ivanova , Marco Aversa , Paul Henderson , John Williamson

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

This work tests a self-annotation-based unsupervised methodology for training a convolutional neural network (CNN) model for semantic segmentation of X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans of concretes. Concrete poses a unique challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kaustav Das , Gaston Rauchs , Jan Sykora , Anna Kucerova

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as an appealing alternative to alleviate the need for large labeled datasets in semantic segmentation. Most current approaches exploit class activation maps (CAMs), which can be generated from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Gaurav Patel , Jose Dolz

Autoregressive Predictive Coding (APC), as a self-supervised objective, has enjoyed success in learning representations from large amounts of unlabeled data, and the learned representations are rich for many downstream tasks. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yu-An Chung , Hao Tang , James Glass

For the majority of the learning-based segmentation methods, a large quantity of high-quality training data is required. In this paper, we present a novel learning-based segmentation model that could be trained semi- or un- supervised.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Junyu Chen , Eric C. Frey

Recent advancements in open vocabulary models, like CLIP, have notably advanced zero-shot classification and segmentation by utilizing natural language for class-specific embeddings. However, most research has focused on improving model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Cees G. M. Snoek

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging problem that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of advanced solutions exploit class activation map (CAM). However, CAMs can hardly serve as the object mask due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Word segmentation is the task of inserting or deleting word boundary characters in order to separate character sequences that correspond to words in some language. In this article we propose an approach based on a beam search algorithm and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yerai Doval , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

In this paper, we present a method for learning discrete linguistic units by incorporating vector quantization layers into neural models of visually grounded speech. We show that our method is capable of capturing both word-level and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 David Harwath , Wei-Ning Hsu , James Glass