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Medical ultrasound image segmentation faces significant challenges due to limited labeled data and characteristic imaging artifacts including speckle noise and low-contrast boundaries. While semi-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have…

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Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS) aligns audio and video at the pixel level but requires costly per-frame annotations. We introduce Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (WSAVSS), which uses only video-level labels to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chengzhi Li , Heyan Huang , Ping Jian , Yanghao Zhou

Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning has proven effective in deriving high-quality representations from unlabeled data. However, a major challenge that hinders both unimodal and multimodal contrastive learning is feature suppression, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jihai Zhang , Xiang Lan , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng , Mengling Feng , Bryan Hooi

Different from general object detection, moving infrared small target detection faces huge challenges due to tiny target size and weak background contrast.Currently, most existing methods are fully-supervised, heavily relying on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weiwei Duan , Luping Ji , Shengjia Chen , Sicheng Zhu , Jianghong Huang , Mao Ye

Extracting image semantics effectively and assigning corresponding labels to multiple objects or attributes for natural images is challenging due to the complex scene contents and confusing label dependencies. Recent works have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Leilei Ma , Dengdi Sun , Lei Wang , Haifeng Zhao , Bin Luo

Multi-label image classification is a fundamental but challenging task towards general visual understanding. Existing methods found the region-level cues (e.g., features from RoIs) can facilitate multi-label classification. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yongcheng Liu , Lu Sheng , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation under image tags supervision is a challenging task as it directly associates high-level semantic to low-level appearance. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose an iterative bottom-up and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xiang Wang , Shaodi You , Xi Li , Huimin Ma

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the arduous process of acquiring large volumes of high-quality labeled data from experts. Contrastive learning offers a promising but still problematic solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shuang Zeng , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Micky C Nnamdi , Wenqi Shi , J Ben Tamo , Qian Chen , Hangzhou He , Lujia Jin , Zifeng Tian , Qiushi Ren , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Contrastive learning (CL) aims to learn useful representation without relying on expert annotations in the context of medical image segmentation. Existing approaches mainly contrast a single positive vector (i.e., an augmentation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chenyu You , Ruihan Zhao , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Most semantic segmentation models treat semantic segmentation as a pixel-wise classification task and use a pixel-wise classification error as their optimization criterions. However, the pixel-wise error ignores the strong dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Shuai Zhao , Boxi Wu , Wenqing Chu , Yao Hu , Deng Cai

Contrastive learning has become pivotal in unsupervised representation learning, with frameworks like Momentum Contrast (MoCo) effectively utilizing large negative sample sets to extract discriminative features. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Duy Hoang , Huy Ngo , Khoi Pham , Tri Nguyen , Gia Bao , Huy Phan

We introduce the problem of weakly supervised Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation, i.e. joint weakly supervised instance segmentation and multi-object tracking, in which we do not provide any kind of mask annotation. To address it, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Idoia Ruiz , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota Bulò , Peter Kontschieder , Joan Serrat

Weakly supervised learning with scribble annotations uses sparse user-drawn strokes to indicate segmentation labels on a small subset of pixels. This annotation reduces the cost of dense pixel-wise labeling, but suffers inherently from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yeva Gabrielyan , Varduhi Yeghiazaryan , Irina Voiculescu

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

Unsupervised clustering aims at discovering the semantic categories of data according to some distance measured in the representation space. However, different categories often overlap with each other in the representation space at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dejiao Zhang , Feng Nan , Xiaokai Wei , Shangwen Li , Henghui Zhu , Kathleen McKeown , Ramesh Nallapati , Andrew Arnold , Bing Xiang

This paper studies the problem of learning semantic segmentation from image-level supervision only. Current popular solutions leverage object localization maps from classifiers as supervision signals, and struggle to make the localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Guolei Sun , Wenguan Wang , Jifeng Dai , Luc Van Gool

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS), which relies only on image-level labels, has attracted significant attention for its cost-effectiveness and scalability. Existing methods mainly enhance inter-class distinctions and employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yiyang Fu , Hui Li , Wangyu Wu

This work addresses the task of completely weakly supervised class-incremental learning for semantic segmentation to learn segmentation for both base and additional novel classes using only image-level labels. While class-incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Minkwan Kim , Soeun Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

We present a novel confidence refinement scheme that enhances pseudo labels in semi-supervised semantic segmentation. Unlike existing methods, which filter pixels with low-confidence predictions in isolation, our approach leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Moshe Kimhi , Shai Kimhi , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Or Litany , Chaim Baskin

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

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