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Classification activation map (CAM), utilizing the classification structure to generate pixel-wise localization maps, is a crucial mechanism for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL). However, CAM directly uses the classifier trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Lei Zhu , Qian Chen , Lujia Jin , Yunfei You , Yanye Lu

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methodsusually rely on fully convolutional networks in order to ob-tain class activation maps(CAMs) of targeted labels. How-ever, these networks always highlight the most discriminativeparts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ziyi Kou , Wentian Zhao , Guofeng Cui , Shaojie Wang

Extracting class activation maps (CAM) is a key step for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). The CAM of convolution neural networks fails to capture long-range feature dependency on the image and result in the coverage on only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jianqiang Huang , Jian Wang , Qianru Sun , Hanwang Zhang

Existing studies in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level weak supervision have several limitations: sparse object coverage, inaccurate object boundaries, and co-occurring pixels from non-target objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Seungho Lee , Minhyun Lee , Jongwuk Lee , Hyunjung Shim

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of the common solutions exploit class activation map (CAM) to locate object regions. However, such response maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yukun Su , Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models using image data with only image-level supervision. Since precise pixel-level annotations are not accessible, existing methods typically focus on producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ci-Siang Lin , Chien-Yi Wang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation involves assigning pixel-wise labels to unlabeled images at training time. This is useful in a wide range of real-world applications where collecting pixel-wise labels is not feasible in time or cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jianfeng Wang , Daniela Massiceti , Xiaolin Hu , Vladimir Pavlovic , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models by weak labels, which is receiving significant attention due to its low annotation cost. Existing approaches focus on generating pseudo labels for supervision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Linshan Wu , Zhun Zhong , Jiayi Ma , Yunchao Wei , Hao Chen , Leyuan Fang , Shutao Li

We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods leverage unlabeled data by pseudo-labeling them. Thus the success of these methods hinges on the reliablility of the pseudo-labels. Existing methods mostly choose high-confidence pixels in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Prantik Howlader , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Recently, One-stage Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has gained increasing interest due to simplification over its cumbersome multi-stage counterpart. Limited by the inherent ambiguity of Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuanchen Wu , Xichen Ye , Kequan Yang , Jide Li , Xiaoqiang Li

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation has attracted much research interest in recent years considering its advantage of low labeling cost. Most of the advanced algorithms follow the design principle that expands and constrains the seed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) research has explored many directions to improve the typical pipeline CNN plus class activation maps (CAM) plus refinements, given the image-class label as the only supervision. Though the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Simone Rossetti , Damiano Zappia , Marta Sanzari , Marco Schaerf , Fiora Pirri

Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level labels has gained significant attention due to cost-effectiveness. Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) based methods without class activation map (CAM) have shown greater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Wangyu Wu , Tianhong Dai , Xiaowei Huang , Fei Ma , Jimin Xiao

We propose an approach to discover class-specific pixels for the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation task. We show that properly combining saliency and attention maps allows us to obtain reliable cues capable of significantly boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Arslan Chaudhry , Puneet K. Dokania , Philip H. S. Torr

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation learns a model for classifying pixels into specific classes using a few labeled samples and numerous unlabeled images. The recent leading approach is consistency regularization by selftraining with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jingi Ju , Hyeoncheol Noh , Yooseung Wang , Minseok Seo , Dong-Geol Choi