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In this paper we consider the task of semantic segmentation in autonomous driving applications. Specifically, we consider the cross-domain few-shot setting where training can use only few real-world annotated images and many annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Antonio Tavera , Fabio Cermelli , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

Semantic segmentation is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision. However, in many applications, a frequent obstacle is the lack of labeled images, due to the high cost of pixel-level labeling. In this scenario, it makes sense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Adrian Peláez-Vegas , Pablo Mesejo , Julián Luengo

Few-shot segmentation is a task to segment objects or regions of novel classes within an image given only a few annotated examples. In the generalized setting, the task extends to segment both the base and the novel classes. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Steve Andreas Immanuel , Hagai Raja Sinulingga

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using image-level labels. Existing methods typically entangle semantic recognition and object localization, which often leads models to focus exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qingze He , Fagui Liu , Dengke Zhang , Qingmao Wei , Quan Tang

High annotation costs are a major bottleneck for the training of semantic segmentation systems. Therefore, methods working with less annotation effort are of special interest. This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Olga Zatsarynna , Johann Sawatzky , Juergen Gall

Deep neural networks usually require accurate and a large number of annotations to achieve outstanding performance in medical image segmentation. One-shot segmentation and weakly-supervised learning are promising research directions that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Wenhui Lei , Qi Su , Ran Gu , Na Wang , Xinglong Liu , Guotai Wang , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods leverage unlabeled data by pseudo-labeling them. Thus the success of these methods hinges on the reliablility of the pseudo-labels. Existing methods mostly choose high-confidence pixels in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Prantik Howlader , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Automatic cell segmentation in microscopy images works well with the support of deep neural networks trained with full supervision. Collecting and annotating images, though, is not a sustainable solution for every new microscopy database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Youssef Dawoud , Julia Hornauer , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

We show that the way inference is performed in few-shot segmentation tasks has a substantial effect on performances -- an aspect often overlooked in the literature in favor of the meta-learning paradigm. We introduce a transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Malik Boudiaf , Hoel Kervadec , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Training deep networks with limited labeled data while achieving a strong generalization ability is key in the quest to reduce human annotation efforts. This is the goal of semi-supervised learning, which exploits more widely available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Daiqing Li , Junlin Yang , Karsten Kreis , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

While image segmentation is crucial in various computer vision applications, such as autonomous driving, grasping, and robot navigation, annotating all objects at the pixel-level for training is nearly impossible. Therefore, the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Cuong Manh Hoang , Byeongkeun Kang

Weakly-supervised learning under image-level labels supervision has been widely applied to semantic segmentation of medical lesions regions. However, 1) most existing models rely on effective constraints to explore the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jiahua Dong , Yang Cong , Gan Sun , Dongdong Hou

Meta-learning has been proved to be an effective framework to address few-shot learning problems. The key challenge is how to minimize the generalization error of base learner across tasks. In this paper, we explore the concept hierarchy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Baoquan Zhang , Ka-Cheong Leung , Yunming Ye , Xutao Li

The performance of deep networks for semantic image segmentation largely depends on the availability of large-scale training images which are labelled at the pixel level. Typically, such pixel-level image labellings are obtained manually by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xiang Zhang , Wei Zhang , Jinye Peng , Jianping Fan

Many existing approaches for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation are fully supervised. These fully supervised approaches heavily rely on large amounts of labeled training data that are difficult to obtain and cannot segment new classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Na Zhao , Tat-Seng Chua , Gim Hee Lee

Few-shot learning and self-supervised learning address different facets of the same problem: how to train a model with little or no labeled data. Few-shot learning aims for optimization methods and models that can learn efficiently to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem since only a few examples are provided to recognize a new class. Several recent studies exploit additional semantic information, e.g. text embeddings of class names, to address the issue of rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

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

In semantic segmentation, the creation of pixel-level labels for training data incurs significant costs. To address this problem, semi-supervised learning, which utilizes a small number of labeled images alongside unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Takahiro Mano , Reiji Saito , Kazuhiro Hotta

Pixel and superpixel classifiers have become essential tools for EM segmentation algorithms. Training these classifiers remains a major bottleneck primarily due to the requirement of completely annotating the dataset which is tedious,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Toufiq Parag , Stephen Plaza , Louis Scheffer