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Traditionally, algorithms that learn to segment object instances in 2D images have heavily relied on large amounts of human-annotated data. Only recently, novel approaches have emerged tackling this problem in an unsupervised fashion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

This work presents an unsupervised and semi-automatic image segmentation approach where we formulate the segmentation as a inference problem based on unary and pairwise assignment probabilities computed using low-level image cues. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ayelet Heimowitz , Yosi Keller

Unsupervised semantic segmentation requires assigning a label to every pixel without any human annotations. Despite recent advances in self-supervised representation learning for individual images, unsupervised semantic segmentation with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Wenbin He , William Surmeier , Arvind Kumar Shekar , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Almost all existing deep learning approaches for semantic segmentation tackle this task as a pixel-wise classification problem. Yet humans understand a scene not in terms of pixels, but by decomposing it into perceptual groups and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jyh-Jing Hwang , Stella X. Yu , Jianbo Shi , Maxwell D. Collins , Tien-Ju Yang , Xiao Zhang , Liang-Chieh Chen

Segmentation of images is a long-standing challenge in medical AI. This is mainly due to the fact that training a neural network to perform image segmentation requires a significant number of pixel-level annotated data, which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Himashi Peiris , Zhaolin Chen , Gary Egan , Mehrtash Harandi

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

We present an unsupervised method for co-segmentation of a set of 3D shapes from the same class with the aim of segmenting the input shapes into consistent semantic parts and establishing their correspondence across the set. Starting from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jun Yang , Zhenhua Tian

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention due to its less dependence on acquiring abundant annotations from experts compared to fully supervised methods, which is especially important for medical image segmentation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yichi Zhang , Jin Yang , Yuchen Liu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Semi-supervised learning addresses the issue of limited annotations in medical images effectively, but its performance is often inadequate for complex backgrounds and challenging tasks. Multi-modal fusion methods can significantly improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li , Hao Wu , Guoping Wang , Xueqing Yan

Despite the progress of image segmentation for accurate visual entity segmentation, completing the diverse requirements of image editing applications for different-level region-of-interest selections remains unsolved. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Weidong Guo , Jiuxiang Gu , Zhe Lin , Bo Du , Yu Xu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image segmentation, one of the most critical vision tasks, has been studied for many years. Most of the early algorithms are unsupervised methods, which use hand-crafted features to divide the image into many regions. Recently, owing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qinghong Lin , Weichan Zhong , Jianglin Lu

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method for hyperspectral remote sensing image segmentation. The method exploits the mean-shift clustering algorithm that takes as input a preliminary hyperspectral superpixels segmentation together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Mirko Paolo Barbato , Paolo Napoletano , Flavio Piccoli , Raimondo Schettini

Semantic segmentation models trained on public datasets have achieved great success in recent years. However, these models didn't consider the personalization issue of segmentation though it is important in practice. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yu Zhang , Chang-Bin Zhang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Feng Mao

Semantic segmentation is an important and popular research area in computer vision that focuses on classifying pixels in an image based on their semantics. However, supervised deep learning requires large amounts of data to train models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lingyan Ran , Yali Li , Guoqiang Liang , Yanning Zhang

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

Retinal vessel segmentation based on deep learning requires a lot of manual labeled data. That is time-consuming, laborious and professional. What is worse, the acquisition of abundant fundus images is difficult. These problems are more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Qiang Huo

We present IMAS, a method that segments the primary objects in videos without manual annotation in training or inference. Previous methods in unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) have demonstrated the effectiveness of motion as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Long Lian , Zhirong Wu , Stella X. Yu

Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) is a subclass of image-to-image translation where a photorealistic image is synthesized from a segmentation mask. SIS has mostly been addressed as a supervised problem. However, state-of-the-art methods depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 George Eskandar , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Karim Armanious , Bin Yang

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

In this work, we investigate performing semantic segmentation solely through the training on image-sentence pairs. Due to the lack of dense annotations, existing text-supervised methods can only learn to group an image into semantic regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yabo Zhang , Zihao Wang , Jun Hao Liew , Jingjia Huang , Manyu Zhu , Jiashi Feng , Wangmeng Zuo