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In this paper, we develop a new weakly-supervised learning algorithm to learn to segment cancerous regions in histopathology images. Our work is under a multiple instance learning framework (MIL) with a new formulation, deep weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Zhipeng Jia , Xingyi Huang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

Multi-Instance Learning (MIL) is pivotal for analyzing complex, weakly labeled datasets, such as whole-slide images (WSIs) in computational pathology, where bags comprise unordered collections of instances with sparse diagnostic relevance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuedi Zhang , Zhixiang Xia , Guosheng Yin , Bin Liu

In recent years, weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted much attention due to its low labeling cost. The success of recent WSOD models is often ascribed to the two-stage multi-class classification (MCC) task, i.e., multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yufei Yin , Lechao Cheng , Wengang Zhou , Jiajun Deng , Zhou Yu , Houqiang Li

Object detection under imperfect data receives great attention recently. Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) suffers from severe localization issues due to the lack of instance-level annotation, while semi-supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Hanjun Li , Xingjia Pan , Ke Yan , Fan Tang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Self-supervised vision transformers (SSTs) have shown great potential to yield rich localization maps that highlight different objects in an image. However, these maps remain class-agnostic since the model is unsupervised. They often tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Aydin Sarraf , Eric Granger

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

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims at predicting object locations in an image using only image-level category labels. Common challenges that image classification models encounter when localizing objects are, (a) they tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Saurav Gupta , Sourav Lakhotia , Abhay Rawat , Rahul Tallamraju

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is one of the most popular and challenging tasks in computer vision. This task is to localize the objects in the images given only the image-level supervision. Recently, dividing WSOL into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Rui Xu , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Bo Du , Jialie Shen , Yonggang Wen

Digital histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) provide gigapixel-scale high-resolution images that are highly useful for disease diagnosis. However, digital histopathology image analysis faces significant challenges due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bodong Zhang , Xiwen Li , Hamid Manoochehri , Xiaoya Tang , Deepika Sirohi , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

Multiple instance learning (MIL) has been increasingly used in the classification of histopathology whole slide images (WSIs). However, MIL approaches for this specific classification problem still face unique challenges, particularly those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Hongrun Zhang , Yanda Meng , Yitian Zhao , Yihong Qiao , Xiaoyun Yang , Sarah E. Coupland , Yalin Zheng

This paper addresses weakly supervised object detection with only image-level supervision at training stage. Previous approaches train detection models with entire images all at once, making the models prone to being trapped in sub-optimums…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Xiaopeng Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

We propose Deeply Supervised Object Detectors (DSOD), an object detection framework that can be trained from scratch. Recent advances in object detection heavily depend on the off-the-shelf models pre-trained on large-scale classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Zhiqiang Shen , Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Yu-Gang Jiang , Yurong Chen , Xiangyang Xue

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has emerged as the best solution for Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification. It consists of dividing each slide into patches, which are treated as a bag of instances labeled with a global label. MIL includes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Ali Mammadov , Loic Le Folgoc , Julien Adam , Anne Buronfosse , Gilles Hayem , Guillaume Hocquet , Pietro Gori

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methodsusually rely on fully convolutional networks in order to ob-tain class activation maps(CAMs) of targeted labels. How-ever, these networks always highlight the most discriminativeparts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ziyi Kou , Wentian Zhao , Guofeng Cui , Shaojie Wang

We describe a novel weakly supervised deep learning framework that combines both the discriminative and generative models to learn meaningful representation in the multiple instance learning (MIL) setting. MIL is a weakly supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan

We present Deeply Supervised Object Detector (DSOD), a framework that can learn object detectors from scratch. State-of-the-art object objectors rely heavily on the off-the-shelf networks pre-trained on large-scale classification datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Zhiqiang Shen , Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Yu-Gang Jiang , Yurong Chen , Xiangyang Xue

Weakly-Supervised Concealed Object Segmentation (WSCOS) aims to segment objects well blended with surrounding environments using sparsely-annotated data for model training. It remains a challenging task since (1) it is hard to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Guoxia Xu , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Drones are employed in a growing number of visual recognition applications. A recent development in cell tower inspection is drone-based asset surveillance, where the autonomous flight of a drone is guided by localizing objects of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Aydin Sarraf , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD), which is the problem of learning detectors using only image-level labels, has been attracting more and more interest. However, this problem is quite challenging due to the lack of location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Baisheng Lai , Xiaojin Gong

We address the problem of weakly supervised object localization where only image-level annotations are available for training object detectors. Numerous methods have been proposed to tackle this problem through mining object proposals.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Dong Li , Jia-Bin Huang , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang