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Temporal action segmentation approaches have been very successful recently. However, annotating videos with frame-wise labels to train such models is very expensive and time consuming. While weakly supervised methods trained using only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Li , Yazan Abu Farha , Juergen Gall

Rich high-quality annotated data is critical for semantic segmentation learning, yet acquiring dense and pixel-wise ground-truth is both labor- and time-consuming. Coarse annotations (e.g., scribbles, coarse polygons) offer an economical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yadan Luo , Ziwei Wang , Zi Huang , Yang Yang , Cong Zhao

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

Automotive radar provides reliable environmental perception in all-weather conditions with affordable cost, but it hardly supplies semantic and geometry information due to the sparsity of radar detection points. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jianan Liu , Weiyi Xiong , Liping Bai , Yuxuan Xia , Tao Huang , Wanli Ouyang , Bing Zhu

Weakly supervised instance segmentation reduces the cost of annotations required to train models. However, existing approaches which rely only on image-level class labels predominantly suffer from errors due to (a) partial segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Qing Liu , Vignesh Ramanathan , Dhruv Mahajan , Alan Yuille , Zhenheng Yang

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

Recent advances in remote sensing technology have made submeter resolution imagery increasingly accessible, offering remarkable detail for fine-grained land cover analysis. However, its full potential remains underutilized - particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hao Chen , Fang Xu , Tamer Saleh , Weifeng Hao , Gui-Song Xia

This paper presents a weakly-supervised approach to object instance segmentation. Starting with known or predicted object bounding boxes, we learn object masks by playing a game of cut-and-paste in an adversarial learning setup. A mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Tal Remez , Jonathan Huang , Matthew Brown

Obtaining high-resolution (HR) segmentations from coarse annotations is a pervasive challenge in computer vision. Applications include inferring pixel-level segmentations from token-level labels in vision transformers, upsampling coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaoling Hu , Peirong Liu , Dina Zemlyanker , Jonathan Williams Ramirez , Oula Puonti , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Entrusted with the goal of pixel-level object classification, the semantic segmentation networks entail the laborious preparation of pixel-level annotation masks. To obtain pixel-level annotation masks for a given class without human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Joon Hyun Park , Kumju Jo , Sungyong Baik

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is crucial for several applications, from video editing to video data generation. Training a VOS model requires an abundance of manually labeled training videos. The de-facto traditional way of annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Thanos Delatolas , Vicky Kalogeiton , Dim P. Papadopoulos

In this work, we present a novel and effective framework to facilitate object detection with the instance-level segmentation information that is only supervised by bounding box annotation. Starting from the joint object detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Xiangyun Zhao , Shuang Liang , Yichen Wei

Auto-annotation by ensemble of models is an efficient method of learning on unlabeled data. Wrong or inaccurate annotations generated by the ensemble may lead to performance degradation of the trained model. To deal with this problem we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Dror Simon , Miriam Farber , Roman Goldenberg

Automated segmentation of medical images heavily relies on the availability of precise manual annotations. However, generating these annotations is often time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes requires specialized expertise (especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yixin Zhang , Kevin Kramer , Maciej A. Mazurowski

The instance segmentation problem intends to precisely detect and delineate objects in images. Most of the current solutions rely on deep convolutional neural networks but despite this fact proposed solutions are very diverse. Some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Thomio Watanabe , Denis Wolf

We present a high-performance method that can achieve mask-level instance segmentation with only bounding-box annotations for training. While this setting has been studied in the literature, here we show significantly stronger performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Xinlong Wang , Hao Chen

Obtaining annotations for complex computer vision tasks such as object detection is an expensive and time-intense endeavor involving a large number of human workers or expert opinions. Reducing the amount of annotations required while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Marius Schubert , Tobias Riedlinger , Karsten Kahl , Matthias Rottmann

We study the task of weakly-supervised point cloud semantic segmentation with sparse annotations (e.g., less than 0.1% points are labeled), aiming to reduce the expensive cost of dense annotations. Unfortunately, with extremely sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lizhao Liu , Zhuangwei Zhuang , Shangxin Huang , Xunlong Xiao , Tianhang Xiang , Cen Chen , Jingdong Wang , Mingkui Tan

The image annotation stage is a critical and often the most time-consuming part required for training and evaluating object detection and semantic segmentation models. Deployment of the existing models in novel environments often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yimeng Li , Navid Rajabi , Sulabh Shrestha , Md Alimoor Reza , Jana Kosecka

Training an accurate object detector is expensive and time-consuming. One main reason lies in the laborious labeling process, i.e., annotating category and bounding box information for all instances in every image. In this paper, we examine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Qing Tian , Sampath Chanda , K C Amit Kumar , Douglas Gray