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There are two challenges presented in parsing road scenes from UAV images: the complexity of processing high-resolution images and the dependency on extensive manual annotations required by traditional supervised deep learning methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zihan Ma , Yongshang Li , Ronggui Ma , Chen Liang

Semantic segmentation enables robots to perceive and reason about their environments beyond geometry. Most of such systems build upon deep learning approaches. As autonomous robots are commonly deployed in initially unknown environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Julius Rückin , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

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 aim to improve the performance of semantic image segmentation in a semi-supervised setting in which training is effectuated with a reduced set of annotated images and additional non-annotated images. We present a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jizong Peng , Guillermo Estrada , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers

We develop and approach to unsupervised semantic medical image segmentation that extends previous work with generative adversarial networks. We use existing edge detection methods to construct simple edge diagrams, train a generative model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Umaseh Sivanesan , Luis H. Braga , Ranil R. Sonnadara , Kiret Dhindsa

While image segmentation is crucial in various computer vision applications, such as autonomous driving, grasping, and robot navigation, annotating all objects at the pixel-level for training is nearly impossible. Therefore, the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Cuong Manh Hoang , Byeongkeun Kang

Semantic segmentation has been widely investigated in the community, in which the state of the art techniques are based on supervised models. Those models have reported unprecedented performance at the cost of requiring a large set of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Rihuan Ke , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Saurabh Pandey , Saikumar Reddy , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Semantic segmentation is a crucial step in many Earth observation tasks. Large quantity of pixel-level annotation is required to train deep networks for semantic segmentation. Earth observation techniques are applied to varieties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Sudipan Saha , Lichao Mou , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve high-quality semantic grouping without human-labeled annotations. With the advent of self-supervised pre-training, various frameworks utilize the pre-trained features to train prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junho Kim , Byung-Kwan Lee , Yong Man Ro

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Semantic segmentation plays a fundamental role in a broad variety of computer vision applications, providing key information for the global understanding of an image. Yet, the state-of-the-art models rely on large amount of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Gabriela Csurka , Riccardo Volpi , Boris Chidlovskii

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to obtain high-level semantic representation on low-level visual features without manual annotations. Most existing methods are bottom-up approaches that try to group pixels into regions based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhaoyuan Yin , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Xianzhe Xu , Hanling Zhang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Semantic image segmentation is one of fastest growing areas in computer vision with a variety of applications. In many areas, such as robotics and autonomous vehicles, semantic image segmentation is crucial, since it provides the necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Georgios Takos

Unsupervised semantic segmentation (USS) aims to discover and recognize meaningful categories without any labels. For a successful USS, two key abilities are required: 1) information compression and 2) clustering capability. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jiyoung Kim , Kyuhong Shim , Insu Lee , Byonghyo Shim

Autonomous navigation in unstructured off-road environments is greatly improved by semantic scene understanding. Conventional image processing algorithms are difficult to implement and lack robustness due to a lack of structure and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Anthony Medellin , Anant Bhamri , Reza Langari , Swaminathan Gopalswamy

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks usually requires a large amount of labeled data. However, obtaining reliable annotations is expensive and time-consuming. Semi-supervised learning has attracted much…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Yichi Zhang , Jicong Zhang

Medical image computing has advanced rapidly with the advent of deep learning techniques such as convolutional neural networks. Deep convolutional neural networks can perform exceedingly well given full supervision. However, the success of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran , Demetri Terzopoulos

As one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision, semantic segmentation plays an important role in real world applications. Although numerous deep learning models have made notable progress on several mainstream datasets with the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Bin Zhang , Shengjie Zhao , Rongqing Zhang

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 usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka