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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

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on class activation maps (CAMs) for pseudo labels generation. As CAMs only highlight the most discriminative regions of objects, the generated pseudo labels are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiaobo Yang , Xiaojin Gong

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

The image-level label has prevailed in weakly supervised semantic segmentation tasks due to its easy availability. Since image-level labels can only indicate the existence or absence of specific categories of objects, visualization-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Tao Chen , Yazhou Yao , Xingguo Huang , Zechao Li , Liqiang Nie , Jinhui Tang

The costly process of obtaining semantic segmentation labels has driven research towards weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods, using only image-level, point, or box labels. The lack of dense scene representation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Peri Akiva , Kristin Dana

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) methods with image-level labels generally train a classification network to generate the Class Activation Maps (CAMs) as the initial coarse segmentation labels. However, current WSSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Lixiang Ru , Bo Du , Yibing Zhan , Chen Wu

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models by weak labels, which is receiving significant attention due to its low annotation cost. Existing approaches focus on generating pseudo labels for supervision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Linshan Wu , Zhun Zhong , Jiayi Ma , Yunchao Wei , Hao Chen , Leyuan Fang , Shutao Li

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging problem that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of advanced solutions exploit class activation map (CAM). However, CAMs can hardly serve as the object mask due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Frame-level micro- and macro-expression spotting methods require time-consuming frame-by-frame observation during annotation. Meanwhile, video-level spotting lacks sufficient information about the location and number of expressions during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Wang-Wang Yu , Xian-Shi Zhang , Fu-Ya Luo , Yijun Cao , Kai-Fu Yang , Hong-Mei Yan , Yong-Jie Li

State-of-the-art techniques in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels exhibit severe performance degradation on driving scene datasets such as Cityscapes. To address this challenge, we develop a new WSSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Dongseob Kim , Seungho Lee , Junsuk Choe , Hyunjung Shim

Low-end and compact mobile cameras demonstrate limited photo quality mainly due to space, hardware and budget constraints. In this work, we propose a deep learning solution that translates photos taken by cameras with limited capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Andrey Ignatov , Nikolay Kobyshev , Radu Timofte , Kenneth Vanhoey , Luc Van Gool

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated exceptional performance and versatility, making it a promising tool for various related tasks. In this report, we explore the application of SAM in Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Weixuan Sun , Zheyuan Liu , Yanhao Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes

Existing studies in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level weak supervision have several limitations: sparse object coverage, inaccurate object boundaries, and co-occurring pixels from non-target objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Seungho Lee , Minhyun Lee , Jongwuk Lee , Hyunjung Shim

Weakly supervised image segmentation with image-level labels has drawn attention due to the high cost of pixel-level annotations. Traditional methods using Class Activation Maps (CAMs) often highlight only the most discriminative regions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qingchen Tang , Lei Fan , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

Learning semantic segmentation models under image-level supervision is far more challenging than under fully supervised setting. Without knowing the exact pixel-label correspondence, most weakly-supervised methods rely on external models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Zi-Yi Ke , Chiou-Ting Hsu

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels aims to achieve segmentation tasks without dense annotations. However, attributed to the frequent coupling of co-occurring objects and the limited supervision from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Zhiwei Yang , Kexue Fu , Minghong Duan , Linhao Qu , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is challenging, particularly when image-level labels are used to supervise pixel level prediction. To bridge their gap, a Class Activation Map (CAM) is usually generated to provide pixel level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Zheyuan Liu , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes