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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

We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

Object detection is an essential and fundamental task in computer vision and satellite image processing. Existing deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance thanks to the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Fahong Zhang , Yilei Shi , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Object detectors trained on fully-annotated data currently yield state of the art performance but require expensive manual annotations. On the other hand, weakly-supervised detectors have much lower performance and cannot be used reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Linpu Fang , Hang Xu , Zhili Liu , Sarah Parisot , Zhenguo Li

Annotating remote sensing images (RSIs) presents a notable challenge due to its labor-intensive nature. Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) methods tackle this issue by generating pseudo-labels for the unlabeled data, assuming that all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Yingjie Gao , Heng-Chao Li

Significant performance improvement has been achieved for fully-supervised video salient object detection with the pixel-wise labeled training datasets, which are time-consuming and expensive to obtain. To relieve the burden of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Wangbo Zhao , Jing Zhang , Long Li , Nick Barnes , Nian Liu , Junwei Han

Salient object detection aims at detecting the most visually distinct objects and producing the corresponding masks. As the cost of pixel-level annotations is high, image tags are usually used as weak supervisions. However, an image tag can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xiaoyang Zheng , Xin Tan , Jie Zhou , Lizhuang Ma , Rynson W. H. Lau

Robust weed detection remains a challenging task in precision weeding, requiring not only potent weed detection models but also large-scale, labeled data. However, the labeled data adequate for model training is practically difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Boyang Deng , Yuzhen Lu

The eye-tracking video saliency prediction (VSP) task and video salient object detection (VSOD) task both focus on the most attractive objects in video and show the result in the form of predictive heatmaps and pixel-level saliency masks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Qin , Runmin Cong , Gen Zhan , Yiting Liao , Sam Kwong

Accurate segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, the labor-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation limits the scalability of supervised learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiaqi Yang , Nitish Mehta , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

In recent years, supervised learning has been widely used in various tasks of optical remote sensing image understanding, including remote sensing image classification, pixel-wise segmentation, change detection, and object detection. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Pedram Ghamisi , Weiying Xie , Jun Li , Jocelyn Chanussot , Antonio J Plaza

With the recent development of Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SS-OD) techniques, object detectors can be improved by using a limited amount of labeled data and abundant unlabeled data. However, there are still two challenges that are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yen-Cheng Liu , Chih-Yao Ma , Zsolt Kira

Compared to conventional semantic segmentation with pixel-level supervision, Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels poses the challenge that it always focuses on the most discriminative regions, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jingxuan He , Lechao Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Zunlei Feng , Tingting Mu , Mingli Song

Enlarging input images is a straightforward and effective approach to promote small object detection. However, simple image enlargement is significantly expensive on both computations and GPU memory. In fact, small objects are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kai Liu , Zhihang Fu , Sheng Jin , Ze Chen , Fan Zhou , Rongxin Jiang , Yaowu Chen , Jieping Ye

We introduce count-guided weakly supervised localization (C-WSL), an approach that uses per-class object count as a new form of supervision to improve weakly supervised localization (WSL). C-WSL uses a simple count-based region selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Mingfei Gao , Ang Li , Ruichi Yu , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

Weakly supervised oriented object detection (WS-OOD) has gained attention as a cost-effective alternative to fully supervised methods, providing both efficiency and high accuracy. Among weakly supervised approaches, horizontal bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Woojin Lee , Hyugjae Chang , Jaeho Moon , Jaehyup Lee , Munchurl Kim

Deep Learning-based Unsupervised Salient Object Detection (USOD) mainly relies on the noisy saliency pseudo labels that have been generated from traditional handcraft methods or pre-trained networks. To cope with the noisy labels problem, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Huajun Zhou , Bo Qiao , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Weakly-supervised anomaly detection can outperform existing unsupervised methods with the assistance of a very small number of labeled anomalies, which attracts increasing attention from researchers. However, existing weakly-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xu Tan , Junqi Chen , Sylwan Rahardja , Jiawei Yang , Susanto Rahardja

Deep learning has emerged as an effective solution for solving the task of object detection in images but at the cost of requiring large labeled datasets. To mitigate this cost, semi-supervised object detection methods, which consist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Renaud Vandeghen , Gilles Louppe , Marc Van Droogenbroeck