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In this paper, we introduce a novel learning scheme named weakly semi-supervised instance segmentation (WSSIS) with point labels for budget-efficient and high-performance instance segmentation. Namely, we consider a dataset setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Beomyoung Kim , Joonhyun Jeong , Dongyoon Han , Sung Ju Hwang

Training deep networks for semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled training data, which presents a major challenge in practice, as labeling segmentation masks is a highly labor-intensive process. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Qin Wang , Yuhua Chen , Luc Van Gool

Semantic segmentation of point clouds usually requires exhausting efforts of human annotations, hence it attracts wide attention to the challenging topic of learning from unlabeled or weaker forms of annotations. In this paper, we take the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Zisheng Chen , Hongbin Xu , Weitao Chen , Zhipeng Zhou , Haihong Xiao , Baigui Sun , Xuansong Xie , Wenxiong Kang

3D semantic scene labeling is a fundamental task for Autonomous Driving. Recent work shows the capability of Deep Neural Networks in labeling 3D point sets provided by sensors like LiDAR, and Radar. Imbalanced distribution of classes in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Mohammed Abdou , Mahmoud Elkhateeb , Ibrahim Sobh , Ahmad Elsallab

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Scribble-based weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using sparse scribble supervision is gaining traction as it reduces annotation costs when compared to fully annotated alternatives. Existing methods primarily generate pseudo-labels by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Lujia Jin , Yanye Lu

3D point cloud segmentation has a wide range of applications in areas such as autonomous driving, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital twins. The point cloud data collected in real scenes often contain small objects and categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chade Li , Pengju Zhang , Jiaming Zhang , Yihong Wu

The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation. Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

We study the problem of 3D semantic segmentation from raw point clouds. Unlike existing methods which primarily rely on a large amount of human annotations for training neural networks, we propose the first purely unsupervised method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zihui Zhang , Bo Yang , Bing Wang , Bo Li

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task in histopathology image analysis. Typically, such segmentation tasks require significant effort to manually generate accurate pixel-wise annotations for fully supervised training. To alleviate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Hui Qu , Pengxiang Wu , Qiaoying Huang , Jingru Yi , Zhennan Yan , Kang Li , Gregory M. Riedlinger , Subhajyoti De , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Traditionally, training neural networks to perform semantic segmentation required expensive human-made annotations. But more recently, advances in the field of unsupervised learning have made significant progress on this issue and towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Although semi-dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been becoming more popular over the last few years, there is a lack of efficient methods for representing and processing their large scale point clouds. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Shida He , Xuebin Qin , Zichen Zhang , Martin Jagersand

Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

3D point cloud semantic and instance segmentation is crucial and fundamental for 3D scene understanding. Due to the complex structure, point sets are distributed off balance and diversely, which appears as both category imbalance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Tong He , Dong Gong , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

This work proposes a novel method for semi-supervised learning from partially labeled massive network-structured datasets, i.e., big data over networks. We model the underlying hypothesis, which relates data points to labels, as a graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Alexander Jung , Alfred O. Hero , Alexandru Mara , Saeed Jahromi

The rapid development of deep learning has driven significant progress in image semantic segmentation - a fundamental task in computer vision. Semantic segmentation algorithms often depend on the availability of pixel-level labels (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

Learning semantic segmentation models requires a huge amount of pixel-wise labeling. However, labeled data may only be available abundantly in a domain different from the desired target domain, which only has minimal or no annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sujoy Paul , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Samuel Schulter , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Manmohan Chandraker

Unsupervised learning on 3D point clouds has undergone a rapid evolution, especially thanks to data augmentation-based contrastive methods. However, data augmentation is not ideal as it requires a careful selection of the type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Guofeng Mei , Cristiano Saltori , Fabio Poiesi , Jian Zhang , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe , Qiang Wu

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele