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Image clustering aims to group images in an unsupervised fashion. Traditional methods focus on knowledge from visual space, making it difficult to distinguish between visually similar but semantically different classes. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yijie Zhong , Yunfan Gao , Weipeng Jiang , Haofen Wang

Semantic segmentation and object detection research have recently achieved rapid progress. However, the former task has no notion of different instances of the same object, and the latter operates at a coarse, bounding-box level. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S Torr

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at grouping different semantic patterns in an image without the use of human annotation. Similarly, image clustering searches for groupings of images based on their semantic content without supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Isaac Wasserman , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

We introduce CLASP (Clustering via Adaptive Spectral Processing), a lightweight framework for unsupervised image segmentation that operates without any labeled data or finetuning. CLASP first extracts per patch features using a self…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Max Curie , Paulo da Costa

Unsupervised semantic segmentation requires assigning a label to every pixel without any human annotations. Despite recent advances in self-supervised representation learning for individual images, unsupervised semantic segmentation with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Wenbin He , William Surmeier , Arvind Kumar Shekar , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

In-context learning (ICL) enables medical image segmentation models to adapt to new anatomical structures from limited examples, reducing the clinical annotation burden. However, standard ICL methods typically rely on dense, global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 T. Camaret Ndir , Marco Reisert , Robin T. Schirrmeister

Learning invariant representations from images is one of the hardest challenges facing computer vision. Spatial pooling is widely used to create invariance to spatial shifting, but it is restricted to convolutional models. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Takaki Makino , Kazuyuki Aihara

Learning dense visual representations without labels is an arduous task and more so from scene-centric data. We propose to tackle this challenging problem by proposing a Cross-view consistency objective with an Online Clustering mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Thomas Stegmüller , Tim Lebailly , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Deep neural network-based semantic segmentation generally requires large-scale cost extensive annotations for training to obtain better performance. To avoid pixel-wise segmentation annotations which are needed for most methods, recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian

In this paper, we propose a novel, effective and simpler end-to-end image clustering auto-encoder algorithm: ICAE. The algorithm uses PEDCC (Predefined Evenly-Distributed Class Centroids) as the clustering centers, which ensures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Qiuyu Zhu , Zhengyong Wang

In this work, we propose a new unsupervised image segmentation approach based on mutual information maximization between different constructed views of the inputs. Taking inspiration from autoregressive generative models that predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

In this paper, we present a novel deep image clustering approach termed PICI, which enforces the partial information discrimination and the cross-level interaction in a joint learning framework. In particular, we leverage a Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hai-Xin Zhang , Dong Huang , Hua-Bao Ling , Guang-Yu Zhang , Wei-jun Sun , Zi-hao Wen

There have been remarkable improvements in the semantic labelling task in the recent years. However, the state of the art methods rely on large-scale pixel-level annotations. This paper studies the problem of training a pixel-wise semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Seong Joon Oh , Rodrigo Benenson , Anna Khoreva , Zeynep Akata , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Recent developed deep unsupervised methods allow us to jointly learn representation and cluster unlabelled data. These deep clustering methods mainly focus on the correlation among samples, e.g., selecting high precision pairs to gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jianlong Wu , Keyu Long , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Cheng Li , Zhouchen Lin , Hongbin Zha

Semantic instance segmentation remains a challenging task. In this work we propose to tackle the problem with a discriminative loss function, operating at the pixel level, that encourages a convolutional network to produce a representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bert De Brabandere , Davy Neven , Luc Van Gool

Semi-supervised learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation since it alleviates the heavy burden of acquiring the costly expert-examined annotations. Especially, the consistency-based approaches have attracted more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zhe Xu , Yixin Wang , Donghuan Lu , Lequan Yu , Jiangpeng Yan , Jie Luo , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Raymond Kai-yu Tong

Open-vocabulary image segmentation aims to partition an image into semantic regions according to arbitrary text descriptions. However, complex visual scenes can be naturally decomposed into simpler parts and abstracted at multiple levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xudong Wang , Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell

Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

Semantic segmentation is the task of classifying each pixel in an image. Training a segmentation model achieves best results using annotated images, where each pixel is annotated with the corresponding class. When obtaining fine annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jort de Jong , Mike Holenderski

The scarcity of labeled data often impedes the application of deep learning to the segmentation of medical images. Semi-supervised learning seeks to overcome this limitation by exploiting unlabeled examples in the learning process. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Jizong Peng , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers