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Learning-based methods for visual segmentation have made progress on particular types of segmentation tasks, but are limited by the necessary supervision, the narrow definitions of fixed tasks, and the lack of control during inference for…

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We propose an approach to domain adaptation for semantic segmentation that is both practical and highly accurate. In contrast to previous work, we abandon the use of computationally involved adversarial objectives, network ensembles and…

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Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

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Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a class-label to each pixel in an image. We propose a region-based semantic segmentation framework which handles both full and weak supervision, and addresses three common problems: (1) Objects…

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Weakly supervised semantic segmentation and localiza- tion have a problem of focusing only on the most important parts of an image since they use only image-level annota- tions. In this paper, we solve this problem fundamentally via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Dahun Kim , Donghyeon Cho , Donggeun Yoo , In So Kweon

The costly process of obtaining semantic segmentation labels has driven research towards weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods, using only image-level, point, or box labels. The lack of dense scene representation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Peri Akiva , Kristin Dana

Automated semantic segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopic images is crucial for disease diagnosis and tissue microenvironment analysis. Nonetheless, this task presents challenges due to the complexity and heterogeneity of cells. While…

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The main obstacle to weakly supervised semantic image segmentation is the difficulty of obtaining pixel-level information from coarse image-level annotations. Most methods based on image-level annotations use localization maps obtained from…

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In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art method for biomedical image analysis. However, these networks are usually trained in a supervised manner, requiring large amounts of labelled training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Nastassya Horlava , Alisa Mironenko , Sebastian Niehaus , Sebastian Wagner , Ingo Roeder , Nico Scherf

The throughput of electron microscopes has increased significantly in recent years, enabling detailed analysis of cell morphology and ultrastructure. Analysis of neural circuits at single-synapse resolution remains the flagship target of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Constantin Pape , Alex Matskevych , Adrian Wolny , Julian Hennies , Giula Mizzon , Marion Louveaux , Jacob Musser , Alexis Maizel , Detlev Arendt , Anna Kreshuk

The scarcity of pixel-level annotation is a prevalent problem in medical image segmentation tasks. In this paper, we introduce a novel regularization strategy involving interpolation-based mixing for semi-supervised medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Hritam Basak , Rajarshi Bhattacharya , Rukhshanda Hussain , Agniv Chatterjee

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation requires the model to effectively propagate the label information from limited annotated images to unlabeled ones. A challenge for such a per-pixel prediction task is the large intra-class variation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hai-Ming Xu , Lingqiao Liu , Qiuchen Bian , Zhen Yang

Semantic segmentation consists of predicting a semantic label for each image pixel. While existing deep learning approaches achieve high accuracy, they often overlook the ordinal relationships between classes, which can provide critical…

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In this work, we study the problem of training deep networks for semantic image segmentation using only a fraction of annotated images, which may significantly reduce human annotation efforts. Particularly, we propose a strategy that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Aniket Agarwal , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for very high resolution images requires a large quantity of high-quality pixel-level annotations, which is extremely labor- and time-consuming to produce. Moreover, professional photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuansheng Hua , Diego Marcos , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Devis Tuia

Combining high-level and low-level visual tasks is a common technique in the field of computer vision. This work integrates the technique of image super resolution to semantic segmentation for document image binarization. It demonstrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Chih-Chia Chen , Wei-Han Chen , Jen-Shiun Chiang , Chun-Tse Chien , Tingkai Chang

While supervised object detection and segmentation methods achieve impressive accuracy, they generalize poorly to images whose appearance significantly differs from the data they have been trained on. To address this when annotating data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Isinsu Katircioglu , Helge Rhodin , Victor Constantin , Jörg Spörri , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Reducing the quantity of annotations required for supervised training is vital when labels are scarce and costly. This reduction is especially important for semantic segmentation tasks involving 3D datasets that are often significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Andrej Janda , Brandon Wagstaff , Edwin G. Ng , Jonathan Kelly

In this paper, we study weakly-supervised laparoscopic image segmentation with sparse annotations. We introduce a novel Bayesian deep learning approach designed to enhance both the accuracy and interpretability of the model's segmentation,…

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Accurate automatic medical image segmentation relies on high-quality, dense annotations, which are costly and time-consuming. Weakly supervised learning provides a more efficient alternative by leveraging sparse and coarse annotations…

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