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Few-shot semantic segmentation addresses the learning task in which only few images with ground truth pixel-level labels are available for the novel classes of interest. One is typically required to collect a large mount of data (i.e., base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yuan-Hao Lee , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Fully supervised deep neural networks for segmentation usually require a massive amount of pixel-level labels which are manually expensive to create. In this work, we develop a multi-task learning method to relax this constraint. We regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Mark Kirkland , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Semantic segmentation is the problem of assigning a class label to every pixel in an image, and is an important component of an autonomous vehicle vision stack for facilitating scene understanding and object detection. However, many of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

When one wants to train a neural network to perform semantic segmentation, creating pixel-level annotations for each of the images in the database is a tedious task. If he works with aerial or satellite images, which are usually very large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Adrien Nivaggioli , Hicham Randrianarivo

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

Learning semantic segmentation models under image-level supervision is far more challenging than under fully supervised setting. Without knowing the exact pixel-label correspondence, most weakly-supervised methods rely on external models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Zi-Yi Ke , Chiou-Ting Hsu

In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Current state of the art methods for generating semantic segmentation rely heavily on a large set of images that have each pixel labeled with a class of interest label or background. Coming up with such labels, especially in domains that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 R. Austin McEver , B. S. Manjunath

The need for labour intensive pixel-wise annotation is a major limitation of many fully supervised learning methods for segmenting bioimages that can contain numerous object instances with thin separations. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task as it only takes image-level information as supervision for training but produces pixel-level predictions for testing. To address such a challenging task, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Mingjie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

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

Accurate cell segmentation in pathology images typically requires dense pixel-wise annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to obtain. This challenge is especially important for emerging biological imaging modalities and multiplexed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gunjan Shrivastava , Saad Nadeem

Existing works on semantic segmentation typically consider a small number of labels, ranging from tens to a few hundreds. With a large number of labels, training and evaluation of such task become extremely challenging due to correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yufei Wang , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jianming Zhang , Scott Cohen

Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for semantic segmentation typically requires to collect a large amount of accurate pixel-level annotations, a hard and expensive task. In contrast, simple image tags are easier to gather. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Carolina Redondo-Cabrera , Marcos Baptista-Ríos , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Image datasets with high-quality pixel-level annotations are valuable for semantic segmentation: labelling every pixel in an image ensures that rare classes and small objects are annotated. However, full-image annotations are expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Hubert Lin , Paul Upchurch , Kavita Bala

Large annotated datasets are vital for training segmentation models, but pixel-level labeling is time-consuming, error-prone, and often requires scarce expert annotators, especially in medical imaging. In contrast, coarse annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Le Zhang , Fuping Wu , Arun Thirunavukarasu , Kevin Bronik , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

High annotation costs are a major bottleneck for the training of semantic segmentation systems. Therefore, methods working with less annotation effort are of special interest. This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Olga Zatsarynna , Johann Sawatzky , Juergen Gall

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

Present-day deep neural networks for video semantic segmentation require a large number of fine-grained pixel-level annotations to achieve the best possible results. Obtaining such annotations, however, is very expensive. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Samik Some , Vinay P. Namboodiri