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Weakly supervised learning has been rapidly advanced in biomedical image analysis to achieve pixel-wise labels (segmentation) from image-wise annotations (classification), as biomedical images naturally contain image-wise labels in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ruining Deng , Quan Liu , Shunxing Bao , Aadarsh Jha , Catie Chang , Bryan A. Millis , Matthew J. Tyska , Yuankai Huo

Convolutional Neural Networks have made their mark in various fields of computer vision in recent years. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the field of document analysis as well. However, CNNs require a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Neha Gurjar , Sebastian Sudholt , Gernot A. Fink

Deep learning has largely improved the performance of various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, most deep learning models are black-box machinery, and lack explicit interpretation. In this chapter, we will introduce our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Xianggen Liu , Zhengdong Lu , Lili Mou

Reading is a complex process which requires proper understanding of texts in order to create coherent mental representations. However, comprehension problems may arise due to hard-to-understand sections, which can prove troublesome for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 George-Eduard Zaharia , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Mihai Dascalu

This work addresses the task of completely weakly supervised class-incremental learning for semantic segmentation to learn segmentation for both base and additional novel classes using only image-level labels. While class-incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Minkwan Kim , Soeun Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

While remarkable success has been achieved in weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL), current frameworks are not capable of locating objects of novel categories in open-world settings. To address this issue, we are the first to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jinheng Xie , Zhaochuan Luo , Yuexiang Li , Haozhe Liu , Linlin Shen , Mike Zheng Shou

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

This work tackles the problem of semi-supervised learning of image classifiers. Our main insight is that the field of semi-supervised learning can benefit from the quickly advancing field of self-supervised visual representation learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Xiaohua Zhai , Avital Oliver , Alexander Kolesnikov , Lucas Beyer

As machine learning algorithms become increasingly sophisticated to exploit subtle features of the data, they often become more dependent on simulations. This paper presents a new approach called weakly supervised classification in which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-04 Lucio Mwinmaarong Dery , Benjamin Nachman , Francesco Rubbo , Ariel Schwartzman

Although deep neural networks are capable of achieving performance superior to humans on various tasks, they are notorious for requiring large amounts of data and computing resources, restricting their success to domains where such…

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

As an emerging and challenging problem in the computer vision community, weakly supervised object localization and detection plays an important role for developing new generation computer vision systems and has received significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han , Gong Cheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In the context of noisy partial label learning (NPLL), each training sample is associated with a set of candidate labels annotated by multiple noisy annotators. With the emergence of high-performance pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Qian-Wei Wang , Yaguang Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Annotating datasets is one of the main costs in nowadays supervised learning. The goal of weak supervision is to enable models to learn using only forms of labelling which are cheaper to collect, as partial labelling. This is a type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Vivien Cabannes , Alessandro Rudi , Francis Bach

Machine learning techniques applied to the Natural Language Processing (NLP) component of conversational agent development show promising results for improved accuracy and quality of feedback that a conversational agent can provide. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Debajyoti Datta , Maria Phillips , Jennifer Chiu , Ginger S. Watson , James P. Bywater , Laura Barnes , Donald Brown

Since acquiring perfect supervision is usually difficult, real-world machine learning tasks often confront inaccurate, incomplete, or inexact supervision, collectively referred to as weak supervision. In this work, we present WSAUC, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zheng Xie , Yu Liu , Hao-Yuan He , Ming Li , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Recently, Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) techniques have greatly benefited various vision-language tasks by jointly learning visual and textual representations, which intuitively helps in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Yu Hao , Shijian Lu , Philip Torr , Song Bai

Weakly-supervised vision-language (V-L) pre-training (W-VLP) aims at learning cross-modal alignment with little or no paired data, such as aligned images and captions. Recent W-VLP methods, which pair visual features with object tags, help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Tzu-Jui Julius Wang , Jorma Laaksonen , Tomas Langer , Heikki Arponen , Tom E. Bishop

This paper reviews the 1st International Workshop on Disentangled Representation Learning for Controllable Generation (DRL4Real), held in conjunction with ICCV 2025. The workshop aimed to bridge the gap between the theoretical promise of…

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of vision-language (VL) intelligence from the perspective of time. This survey is inspired by the remarkable progress in both computer vision and natural language processing, and recent trends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Yi-Fan Zhang , Shilong Liu , Jian Guo , Lionel M. Ni , PengChuan Zhang , Lei Zhang