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Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) is a challenging task that requires simultaneously learn object classifiers and estimate object locations under the supervision of image category labels. A major line of WSOD methods roots in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Shiwei Zhang , Wei Ke , Lin Yang

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) focuses on localizing objects only with the supervision of image-level classification masks. Most previous WSOL methods follow the classification activation map (CAM) that localizes objects based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Lei Zhu , Qi She , Qian Chen , Yunfei You , Boyu Wang , Yanye Lu

Drones are employed in a growing number of visual recognition applications. A recent development in cell tower inspection is drone-based asset surveillance, where the autonomous flight of a drone is guided by localizing objects of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Aydin Sarraf , Eric Granger

In recent years, deep learning technology has been maturely applied in the field of object detection, and most algorithms tend to be supervised learning. However, a large amount of labeled data requires high costs of human resources, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanyang Wang , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL), which aims to localize objects by only using image-level labels, has attracted much attention because of its low annotation cost in real applications. Recent studies leverage the advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haotian Bai , Ruimao Zhang , Jiong Wang , Xiang Wan

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD), where a detector is trained with only image-level annotations, is attracting more and more attention. As a method to obtain a well-performing detector, the detector and the instance labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted significant attention in recent years, as it does not require box-level annotations. State-of-the-art methods generally adopt a multi-module network, which employs WSDDN as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuelin Guo , Haoyu He , Zhiyuan Chen , Zitong Huang , Renhao Lu , Lu Shi , Zejun Wang , Weizhe Zhang

Weakly supervised object detection has recently received much attention, since it only requires image-level labels instead of the bounding-box labels consumed in strongly supervised learning. Nevertheless, the save in labeling expense is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Jiajie Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Rui Zhang

Weakly supervised learning of object detection is an important problem in image understanding that still does not have a satisfactory solution. In this paper, we address this problem by exploiting the power of deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Detecting novel objects from few examples has become an emerging topic in computer vision recently. However, these methods need fully annotated training images to learn new object categories which limits their applicability in real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Amirreza Shaban , Amir Rahimi , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Byron Boots , Richard Hartley

In recent years, weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted much attention due to its low labeling cost. The success of recent WSOD models is often ascribed to the two-stage multi-class classification (MCC) task, i.e., multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yufei Yin , Lechao Cheng , Wengang Zhou , Jiajun Deng , Zhou Yu , Houqiang Li

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is a challenging problem which aims to localize objects with only image-level labels. Due to the lack of ground truth bounding boxes, class labels are mainly employed to train the model. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Sabrina Narimene Benassou , Wuzhen Shi , Feng Jiang , Abdallah Benzine

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is a challenging task aiming to localize objects with only image-level supervision. Recent works apply visual transformer to WSOL and achieve significant success by exploiting the long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Pingyu Wu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD), which is an effective way to train an object detection model using only image-level annotations, has attracted considerable attention from researchers. However, most of the existing methods, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Ze Chen , Zhihang Fu , Jianqiang Huang , Mingyuan Tao , Rongxin Jiang , Xiang Tian , Yaowu Chen , Xian-sheng Hua

Weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) enables finding an object using a dataset without any localization information. By simply training a classification model using only image-level annotations, the feature map of the model can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jeesoo Kim , Junsuk Choe , Sangdoo Yun , Nojun Kwak

Weakly supervised object detection aims at learning precise object detectors, given image category labels. In recent prevailing works, this problem is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning module guided by an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaoyan Li , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Weakly supervised visual recognition using inexact supervision is a critical yet challenging learning problem. It significantly reduces human labeling costs and traditionally relies on multi-instance learning and pseudo-labeling. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lianghui Zhu , Junwei Zhou , Yan Liu , Xin Hao , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize the target object using only the image-level supervision. Recent methods encourage the model to activate feature maps over the entire object by dropping the most discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Minsong Ki , Youngjung Uh , Wonyoung Lee , Hyeran Byun

A consistent trend throughout the research of oriented object detection has been the pursuit of maintaining comparable performance with fewer and weaker annotations. This is particularly crucial in the remote sensing domain, where the dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wei Zhang , Xiang Liu , Ningjing Liu , Mingxin Liu , Wei Liao , Chunyan Xu , Xue Yang