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Weakly supervised learning of object detection is an important problem in image understanding that still does not have a satisfactory solution. In this paper, we address this problem by exploiting the power of deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Deep Learning (DL) based methods for object detection achieve remarkable performance at the cost of computationally expensive training and extensive data labeling. Robots embodiment can be exploited to mitigate this burden by acquiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Elisa Maiettini , Andrea Maracani , Raffaello Camoriano , Giulia Pasquale , Vadim Tikhanoff , Lorenzo Rosasco , Lorenzo Natale

Camouflaged object detection (COD) from a single image is a challenging task due to the high similarity between objects and their surroundings. Existing fully supervised methods require labor-intensive pixel-level annotations, making weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xia Li , Xinran Liu , Lin Qi , Junyu Dong

Pixel-level annotations are expensive and time consuming to obtain. Hence, weak supervision using only image tags could have a significant impact in semantic segmentation. Recently, CNN-based methods have proposed to fine-tune pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Fatemehsadat Saleh , Mohammad Sadegh Ali Akbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Stephen Gould , Jose M. Alvarez

Despite recent attention and exploration of depth for various tasks, it is still an unexplored modality for weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD). We propose an amplifier method for enhancing the performance of WSOD by integrating depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Cagri Gungor , Adriana Kovashka

Image forgery localization aims to precisely identify tampered regions within images, but it commonly depends on costly pixel-level annotations. To alleviate this annotation burden, weakly supervised image forgery localization (WSIFL) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziqi Sheng , Junyan Wu , Wei Lu , Jiantao Zhou

We introduce the problem of weakly supervised Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation, i.e. joint weakly supervised instance segmentation and multi-object tracking, in which we do not provide any kind of mask annotation. To address it, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Idoia Ruiz , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota Bulò , Peter Kontschieder , Joan Serrat

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted significant attention in recent years, as it does not require box-level annotations. State-of-the-art methods generally adopt a multi-module network, which employs WSDDN as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuelin Guo , Haoyu He , Zhiyuan Chen , Zitong Huang , Renhao Lu , Lu Shi , Zejun Wang , Weizhe Zhang

Fine-grained image classification is to recognize hundreds of subcategories in each basic-level category. Existing methods employ discriminative localization to find the key distinctions among subcategories. However, they generally have two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng , Junjie Zhao

Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) refers to the task of discriminating the whole region of objects from the background within a scene without relying on labeled datasets, which benefits the task of bounding-box-level localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes , Yuchao Dai

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

In this paper, we propose an effective knowledge transfer framework to boost the weakly supervised object detection accuracy with the help of an external fully-annotated source dataset, whose categories may not overlap with the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yuanyi Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Jian Peng , Lei Zhang

The recent emerged weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) methods can learn to localize an object in the image only using image-level labels. Previous works endeavor to perceive the interval objects from the small and sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Li Zhang , Lu Ye , Siliang Tang , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun

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

Contemporary weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) methods have primarily focused on addressing the challenge of localizing the most discriminative region while largely overlooking the relatively less explored issue of biased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Lei Chen , Ping Liu , Wei Yang , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

Weakly supervised object detection aims at learning precise object detectors, given image category labels. In recent prevailing works, this problem is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning module guided by an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaoyan Li , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) models are trained using only image-level class labels. They can predict both the object class and spatial regions corresponding to the object, without requiring explicit bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Alexis Guichemerre , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods are often built on pixel-level localization maps obtained from a classifier. However, training on class labels only, classifiers suffer from the spurious correlation between foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Jungbeom Lee , Seong Joon Oh , Sangdoo Yun , Junsuk Choe , Eunji Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Most existing weakly supervised localization (WSL) approaches learn detectors by finding positive bounding boxes based on features learned with image-level supervision. However, those features do not contain spatial location related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Zequn Jie , Yunchao Wei , Xiaojie Jin , Jiashi Feng , Wei Liu