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Instance segmentation is of great importance for many biological applications, such as study of neural cell interactions, plant phenotyping, and quantitatively measuring how cells react to drug treatment. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jingru Yi , Pengxiang Wu , Hui Tang , Bo Liu , Qiaoying Huang , Hui Qu , Lianyi Han , Wei Fan , Daniel J. Hoeppner , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Limited by expensive pixel-level labels, polyp segmentation models are plagued by data shortage and suffer from impaired generalization. In contrast, polyp bounding box annotations are much cheaper and more accessible. Thus, to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jun Wei , Yiwen Hu , Shuguang Cui , S. Kevin Zhou , Zhen Li

One of the bottlenecks for instance segmentation today lies in the conflicting requirements of high-resolution inputs and lightweight, real-time inference. To address this bottleneck, we present a Polygon Detection Transformer (Poly-DETR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jiacheng Sun , Jiaqi Lin , Wenlong Hu , Haoyang Li , Xinghong Zhou , Chenghai Mao , Yan Peng , Xiaomao Li

Weakly-supervised object detection attempts to limit the amount of supervision by dispensing the need for bounding boxes, but still assumes image-level labels on the entire training set. In this work, we study the problem of training an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Zhaohui Yang , Miaojing Shi , Chao Xu , Vittorio Ferrari , Yannis Avrithis

One popular approach to interactively segment the foreground object of interest from an image is to annotate a bounding box that covers the foreground object. Then, a binary labeling is performed to achieve a refined segmentation. One major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Hongkai Yu , Youjie Zhou , Hui Qian , Min Xian , Yuewei Lin , Dazhou Guo , Kang Zheng , Kareem Abdelfatah , Song Wang

In recent years, the performance of object detection has advanced significantly with the evolving deep convolutional neural networks. However, the state-of-the-art object detection methods still rely on accurate bounding box annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Qingyi Tao , Hao Yang , Jianfei Cai

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Labeling objects with pixel-wise segmentation requires a huge amount of human labor compared to bounding boxes. Most existing methods for weakly supervised instance segmentation focus on designing heuristic losses with priors from bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Tianheng Cheng , Xinggang Wang , Shaoyu Chen , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu

Understanding human behavior is an important problem in the pursuit of visual intelligence. A challenge in this endeavor is the extensive and costly effort required to accurately label action segments. To address this issue, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Seth Z. Zhao , Reza Ghoddoosian , Isht Dwivedi , Nakul Agarwal , Behzad Dariush

State-of-the-art visual recognition and detection systems increasingly rely on large amounts of training data and complex classifiers. Therefore it becomes increasingly expensive both to manually annotate datasets and to keep running times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Stefan Mathe , Cristian Sminchisescu

Pixel-wise annotations are notoriously labourious and costly to obtain in the medical domain. To mitigate this burden, weakly supervised approaches based on bounding box annotations-much easier to acquire-offer a practical alternative.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mélanie Gaillochet , Mehrdad Noori , Sahar Dastani , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Weakly supervised segmentation requires assigning a label to every pixel based on training instances with partial annotations such as image-level tags, object bounding boxes, labeled points and scribbles. This task is challenging, as coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Tsung-Wei Ke , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Stella X. Yu

We introduce DiscoBox, a novel framework that jointly learns instance segmentation and semantic correspondence using bounding box supervision. Specifically, we propose a self-ensembling framework where instance segmentation and semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Shiyi Lan , Zhiding Yu , Christopher Choy , Subhashree Radhakrishnan , Guilin Liu , Yuke Zhu , Larry S. Davis , Anima Anandkumar

Reducing the complexity of the pipeline of instance segmentation is crucial for real-world applications. This work addresses this issue by introducing an anchor-box free and single-shot instance segmentation framework, termed PolarMask,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Enze Xie , Wenhai Wang , Mingyu Ding , Ruimao Zhang , Ping Luo

Instance segmentation is a fundamental research in computer vision, especially in autonomous driving. However, manual mask annotation for instance segmentation is quite time-consuming and costly. To address this problem, some prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuzhi Wu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Weakly supervised instance segmentation has gained popularity because it reduces high annotation cost of pixel-level masks required for model training. Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentation detect and segment objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jun Ikeda , Junichiro Mori

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) using only image-level annotations has attracted a growing attention over the past few years. Whereas such task is typically addressed with a domain-specific solution focused on natural images, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Nicolas Gonthier , Saïd Ladjal , Yann Gousseau

Localization of an object within an image is a common task in medical imaging. Learning to localize or detect objects typically requires the collection of data which has been labelled with bounding boxes or similar annotations, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Eyal Rozenberg , Daniel Freedman , Alex Bronstein

We tackle the challenging task of unsupervised object localization in this work. Recently, transformers trained with self-supervised learning have been shown to exhibit object localization properties without being trained for this task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ishan Misra , Rama Chellappa , Abhinav Shrivastava