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It has been widely known that CAM (Class Activation Map) usually only activates discriminative object regions and falsely includes lots of object-related backgrounds. As only a fixed set of image-level object labels are available to the…

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Semantic segmentation has been continuously investigated in the last ten years, and majority of the established technologies are based on supervised models. In recent years, image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Peng Zhu , Tianyang Zhang , Chen Li , Huiyu Zhou , Licheng Jiao

In this work, we focus on the task of weakly supervised affordance grounding, where a model is trained to identify affordance regions on objects using human-object interaction images and egocentric object images without dense labels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Peiran Xu , Yadong Mu

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with only image-level labels aims to reduce annotation costs for the segmentation task. Existing approaches generally leverage class activation maps (CAMs) to locate the object regions for pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tao Chen , Yazhou Yao , Lei Zhang , Qiong Wang , Guo-Sen Xie , Fumin Shen

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels has recently attracted much attention for reducing annotation costs. Existing WSSS methods utilize localization maps from the classification network to generate pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Beomyoung Kim , Sangeun Han , Junmo Kim

Unlike fully supervised semantic segmentation, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on weaker forms of supervision to perform dense prediction tasks. Among the various types of weak supervision, WSSS with image level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Wang Zhang

Few shot segmentation (FSS) aims to learn pixel-level classification of a target object in a query image using only a few annotated support samples. This is challenging as it requires modeling appearance variations of target objects and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Soopil Kim , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

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

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) based on image-level labels has been greatly advanced by exploiting the outputs of Class Activation Map (CAM) to generate the pseudo labels for semantic segmentation. However, CAM merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Fei Zhang , Chaochen Gu , Chenyue Zhang , Yuchao Dai

Weakly-supervised image segmentation (WSIS) is a critical task in computer vision that relies on image-level class labels. Multi-stage training procedures have been widely used in existing WSIS approaches to obtain high-quality pseudo-masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chunyan Wang , Dong Zhang , Rui Yan

Existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods usually utilize the results of pre-trained saliency detection (SD) models without explicitly modeling the connections between the two tasks, which is not the most efficient…

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In recent years, several Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WS3) methods have been proposed that use class activation maps (CAMs) generated by a classifier to produce pseudo-ground truths for training segmentation models. While CAMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 M. Maruf , Arka Daw , Amartya Dutta , Jie Bu , Anuj Karpatne

This work aims to leverage pre-trained foundation models, such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) and segment anything model (SAM), to address weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels. To this…

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In industrial settings, weakly supervised (WS) methods are usually preferred over their fully supervised (FS) counterparts as they do not require costly manual annotations. Unfortunately, the segmentation masks obtained in the WS regime are…

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Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects with image-level supervision. Existing works mainly rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) derived from a classification model. However, CAM-based methods usually focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Jilan Xu , Junlin Hou , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Rui-Wei Zhao , Tao Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Shang Gao

The success of supervised deep learning models on cell recognition tasks relies on detailed annotations. Many previous works have managed to reduce the dependency on labels. However, considering the large number of cells contained in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Pingyi Chen , Chenglu Zhu , Zhongyi Shui , Jiatong Cai , Sunyi Zheng , Shichuan Zhang , Lin Yang

Recent advances in semi-supervised learning (SSL) demonstrate that a combination of consistency regularization and pseudo-labeling can effectively improve image classification accuracy in the low-data regime. Compared to classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuliang Zou , Zizhao Zhang , Han Zhang , Chun-Liang Li , Xiao Bian , Jia-Bin Huang , Tomas Pfister

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

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has recently attracted considerable attention because it requires fewer annotations than fully supervised approaches, making it especially promising for large-scale image segmentation tasks.…

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