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Salient object detection (SOD) in complex environments remains a challenging research topic. Most existing methods perform well in natural scenes with negligible noise, and tend to leverage multi-modal information (e.g., depth and infrared)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Quan Chen , Xiong Yang , Bolun Zheng , Rongfeng Lu , Xiaokai Yang , Qianyu Zhang , Yu Liu , Xiaofei Zhou

We address the problem of localisation of objects as bounding boxes in images and videos with weak labels. This weakly supervised object localisation problem has been tackled in the past using discriminative models where each object class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Zhiyuan Shi , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a compelling tool for object detection by reducing the need for strong supervision during training. However, major challenges remain: (1) differentiation of object instances can be ambiguous; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhongzheng Ren , Zhiding Yu , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Yong Jae Lee , Alexander G. Schwing , Jan Kautz

It is challenging for weakly supervised object detection network to precisely predict the positions of the objects, since there are no instance-level category annotations. Most existing methods tend to solve this problem by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ke Yang , Dongsheng Li , Yong Dou

Recent developments for Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) have shown the promise of leveraging unlabeled data to improve an object detector. However, thus far these methods have assumed that the unlabeled data does not contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Yen-Cheng Liu , Chih-Yao Ma , Xiaoliang Dai , Junjiao Tian , Peter Vajda , Zijian He , Zsolt Kira

We address the problem of localisation of objects as bounding boxes in images with weak labels. This weakly supervised object localisation problem has been tackled in the past using discriminative models where each object class is localised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Zhiyuan Shi , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing encompasses two major directions: data interpretation and parameter inversion. However, both directions rely heavily on costly and labor-intensive labeled data and field measurements, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuan Gao , Shaobo Xia , Pu Wang , Xiaohuan Xi , Sheng Nie , Cheng Wang

In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive study on the co-salient object detection (CoSOD) problem for images. CoSOD is an emerging and rapidly growing extension of salient object detection (SOD), which aims to detect the co-occurring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Tengpeng Li , Zheng Lin , Ge-Peng Ji , Dingwen Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen

In recent years, the performance of object detection has advanced significantly with the evolving deep convolutional neural networks. However, the state-of-the-art object detection methods still rely on accurate bounding box annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Qingyi Tao , Hao Yang , Jianfei Cai

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) models are trained using only image-level class labels. They can predict both the object class and spatial regions corresponding to the object, without requiring explicit bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Alexis Guichemerre , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

Weakly-supervised learning approaches have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the effort required for human annotations in training neural networks. This paper investigates a framework for weakly-supervised object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Byeongkeun Kang , Sinhae Cha , Yeejin Lee

We present a two-stage learning framework for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL). While most previous efforts rely on high-level feature based CAMs (Class Activation Maps), this paper proposes to localize objects using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jinheng Xie , Cheng Luo , Xiangping Zhu , Ziqi Jin , Weizeng Lu , Linlin Shen

The growing demand for oriented object detection (OOD) across various domains has driven significant research in this area. However, the high cost of dataset annotation remains a major concern. Current mainstream OOD algorithms can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mingxin Liu , Peiyuan Zhang , Yuan Liu , Wei Zhang , Yue Zhou , Ning Liao , Ziyang Gong , Junwei Luo , Zhirui Wang , Yi Yu , Xue Yang

Weakly supervised object detection aims at reducing the amount of supervision required to train detection models. Such models are traditionally learned from images/videos labelled only with the object class and not the object bounding box.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Zhenheng Yang , Dhruv Mahajan , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Ram Nevatia , Vignesh Ramanathan

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. Current studies focus on the Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xi Yang , Songsong Duan , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Object detection is a challenging task in visual understanding domain, and even more so if the supervision is to be weak. Recently, few efforts to handle the task without expensive human annotations is established by promising deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Ali Diba , Vivek Sharma , Ali Pazandeh , Hamed Pirsiavash , Luc Van Gool

This paper reports a new solution of leveraging temporal classification to support weakly supervised object detection (WSOD). Specifically, we introduce raster scan-order techniques to serialize 2D images into 1D sequence data, and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Chia-Yu Hsu , Wenwen Li

Semi- and weakly-supervised learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the object detection literature since they can alleviate the cost of annotation needed to successfully train deep learning models. State-of-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akhil Meethal , Marco Pedersoli , Zhongwen Zhu , Francisco Perdigon Romero , Eric Granger

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) models enable joint classification and region-of-interest localization in histology images using only image-class supervision. When deployed in a target domain, distributions shift remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alexis Guichemerre , Banafsheh Karimian , Soufiane Belharbi , Natacha Gillet , Nicolas Thome , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised object detection (WSup-OD) increases the usefulness and interpretability of image classification algorithms without requiring additional supervision. The successes of multiple instance learning in this task for natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Philip Müller , Felix Meissen , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert