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We propose an extension of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) that allows the joint shape and appearance of foreground objects in cluttered images to be modeled independently of the background. We present a learning scheme that learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Nicolas Heess , Nicolas Le Roux , John Winn

In this work, we propose Adversarial Complementary Learning (ACoL) to automatically localize integral objects of semantic interest with weak supervision. We first mathematically prove that class localization maps can be obtained by directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Jiashi Feng , Yi Yang , Thomas Huang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

Attention mechanisms is frequently used to learn the discriminative features for better feature representations. In this paper, we extend the attention mechanism to the task of weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) and propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Junhui Yin , Siqing Zhang , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Semi- and weakly-supervised learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the object detection literature since they can alleviate the cost of annotation needed to successfully train deep learning models. State-of-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akhil Meethal , Marco Pedersoli , Zhongwen Zhu , Francisco Perdigon Romero , Eric Granger

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

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that blend seamlessly into complex backgrounds, with growing interest in exploiting additional visual modalities to enhance robustness through complementary information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hao Wang , Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Lu Jiang , Zetian Mi , Huibing Wang

Recent few-shot object detection (FSOD) methods have focused on augmenting synthetic samples for novel classes, show promising results to the rise of diffusion models. However, the diversity of such datasets is often limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Quoc-Truong Truong , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Thanh-Toan Do , Tam V. Nguyen

In recent years, weakly supervised models have aided in mass detection using mammography images, decreasing the need for pixel-level annotations. However, most existing models in the literature rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Vicente Sampaio , Filipe R. Cordeiro

In this paper we propose a reinforcement learning based weakly supervised system for localisation. We train a controller function to localise regions of interest within an image by introducing a novel reward definition that utilises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Martynas Pocius , Wen Yan , Dean C. Barratt , Mark Emberton , Matthew J. Clarkson , Yipeng Hu , Shaheer U. Saeed

Weakly supervised object detection(WSOD) task uses only image-level annotations to train object detection task. WSOD does not require time-consuming instance-level annotations, so the study of this task has attracted more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sheng Yi , Xi Li , Huimin Ma

We present a technique for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL), building on the observation that WSOL algorithms usually work better on images with bigger objects. Instead of training the object detector on the entire training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Miaojing Shi , Vittorio Ferrari

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) is a task that detects objects in an image using a model trained only on image-level annotations. Current state-of-the-art models benefit from self-supervised instance-level supervision, but since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jinhwan Seo , Wonho Bae , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh , Daijin Kim

Sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) has well-documented merits in enhancing generalization of deep neural network models. Accounting for sharpness in the loss function geometry, where neighborhoods of `flat minima' heighten generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Bingcong Li , Yilang Zhang , Georgios B. Giannakis

Weakly supervised learning of object detection is an important problem in image understanding that still does not have a satisfactory solution. In this paper, we address this problem by exploiting the power of deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) using only image-level annotations has attracted growing attention over the past few years. Existing approaches using multiple instance learning easily fall into local optima, because such mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Chenhao Lin , Siwen Wang , Dongqi Xu , Yu Lu , Wayne Zhang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation produces pixel-level localization from class labels; however, a classifier trained on such labels is likely to focus on a small discriminative region of the target object. We interpret this phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Jungbeom Lee , Jooyoung Choi , Jisoo Mok , Sungroh Yoon

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to learn object localizer solely by using image-level labels. The convolution neural network (CNN) based techniques often result in highlighting the most discriminative part of objects while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zhiwei Chen , Changan Wang , Yabiao Wang , Guannan Jiang , Yunhang Shen , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Wei Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) enables the training of object detection models using only image-level annotations. State-of-the-art WSOD detectors commonly rely on multi-instance learning (MIL) as the backbone of their detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhaofei Wang , Weijia Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang

We aim to localize objects in images using image-level supervision only. Previous approaches to this problem mainly focus on discriminative object regions and often fail to locate precise object boundaries. We address this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Vadim Kantorov , Maxime Oquab , Minsu Cho , Ivan Laptev