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Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

The Information Bottleneck method is a learning technique that seeks a right balance between accuracy and generalization capability through a suitable tradeoff between compression complexity, measured by minimum description length, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Mohammad Mahdi Mahvari , Mari Kobayashi , Abdellatif Zaidi

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with weak labels is a long-lived ill-posed problem. Mainstream methods mainly focus on improving the quality of pseudo labels. In this report, we attempt to explore the potential of 'prompt to masks'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Peng-Tao Jiang , Yuqi Yang

Modern incremental learning for semantic segmentation methods usually learn new categories based on dense annotations. Although achieve promising results, pixel-by-pixel labeling is costly and time-consuming. Weakly incremental learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Chaohui Yu , Qiang Zhou , Jingliang Li , Jianlong Yuan , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

In this work a novel approach for weakly supervised object detection that incorporates pointwise mutual information is presented. A fully convolutional neural network architecture is applied in which the network learns one filter per object…

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

Object localization is an important computer vision problem with a variety of applications. The lack of large scale object-level annotations and the relative abundance of image-level labels makes a compelling case for weak supervision in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Archith J. Bency , Heesung Kwon , Hyungtae Lee , S. Karthikeyan , B. S. Manjunath

Competitive point cloud semantic segmentation results usually rely on a large amount of labeled data. However, data annotation is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, particularly for three-dimensional point cloud data. Thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao

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

We bring a new perspective to semi-supervised semantic segmentation by providing an analysis on the labeled and unlabeled distributions in training datasets. We first figure out that the distribution gap between labeled and unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Daoan Zhang , Yunhao Luo , Jianguo Zhang

Weakly supervised object localization aims to find a target object region in a given image with only weak supervision, such as image-level labels. Most existing methods use a class activation map (CAM) to generate a localization map;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Eunji Kim , Siwon Kim , Jungbeom Lee , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in recent years. Traditional approaches often rely on external modules like Class Activation Maps to highlight regions of interest and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Joelle Hanna , Damian Borth

The crux of label-efficient semantic segmentation is to produce high-quality pseudo-labels to leverage a large amount of unlabeled or weakly labeled data. A common practice is to select the highly confident predictions as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Haochen Wang , Yuchao Wang , Yujun Shen , Junsong Fan , Yuxi Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great success in human parsing in recent years. In conventional human parsing tasks, pixel-level labeling is required for guiding the training, which usually involves enormous human labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Zhonghua Wu , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, which can be considered as a per-pixel classification problem. Recently, although fully convolutional neural network (FCN) based approaches have made remarkable progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Chen-Wei Xie , Hong-Yu Zhou , Jianxin Wu

One key bottleneck of employing state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks in the real world is the availability of training labels. Conventional semantic segmentation networks require massive pixel-wise annotated labels to reach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Erik Ostrowski , Muhammad Shafique

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation produces a pixel-level localization from a classifier, but it is likely to restrict its focus to a small discriminative region of the target object. AdvCAM is an attribution map of an image that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jungbeom Lee , Eunji Kim , Sungroh Yoon

The costly process of obtaining semantic segmentation labels has driven research towards weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods, using only image-level, point, or box labels. The lack of dense scene representation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Peri Akiva , Kristin Dana

In this work, we explore the task of semantic object keypoint discovery weakly-supervised by only category labels. This is achieved by transforming discriminatively-trained intermediate layer filters into keypoint detectors. We begin by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Pei Guo , Ryan Farrell

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation has been a subject of increased interest due to the scarcity of fully annotated images. We introduce a new approach for solving weakly supervised semantic segmentation with deep Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Rania Briq , Michael Moeller , Juergen Gall

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