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To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

In this paper, we show that recent advances in self-supervised feature learning enable unsupervised object discovery and semantic segmentation with a performance that matches the state of the field on supervised semantic segmentation 10…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Andrii Zadaianchuk , Matthaeus Kleindessner , Yi Zhu , Francesco Locatello , Thomas Brox

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

We consider the problem of retrieving objects from image data and learning to classify them into meaningful semantic categories with minimal supervision. To that end, we propose a fully differentiable unsupervised deep clustering approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Steven Hickson , Anelia Angelova , Irfan Essa , Rahul Sukthankar

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing computer vision challenges that involve decomposing an image into semantically-meaningful segments without any labeled data. These tasks are particularly interesting in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Feature alignment between domains is one of the mainstream methods for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) semantic segmentation. Existing feature alignment methods for semantic segmentation learn domain-invariant features by adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Shuang Wang , Dong Zhao , Yi Li , Chi Zhang , Yuwei Guo , Qi Zang , Biao Hou , Licheng Jiao

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Yilu Guo , Luojun Lin

In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised feature learning framework, namely Deep Sparse Coding (DeepSC), that extends sparse coding to a multi-layer architecture for visual object recognition tasks. The main innovation of the framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Yunlong He , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Yun Wang , Arthur Szlam , Yanjun Qi

Producing quality segmentation masks for images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recent research has explored large-scale supervised training to enable zero-shot segmentation on virtually any image style and unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Junjiao Tian , Lavisha Aggarwal , Andrea Colaco , Zsolt Kira , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Unsupervised panoptic segmentation aims to partition an image into semantically meaningful regions and distinct object instances without training on manually annotated data. In contrast to prior work on unsupervised panoptic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers , Christian Rupprecht , Stefan Roth

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Training deep networks for semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled training data, which presents a major challenge in practice, as labeling segmentation masks is a highly labor-intensive process. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Qin Wang , Yuhua Chen , Luc Van Gool

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve high-quality semantic grouping without human-labeled annotations. With the advent of self-supervised pre-training, various frameworks utilize the pre-trained features to train prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junho Kim , Byung-Kwan Lee , Yong Man Ro

We present a novel clustering objective that learns a neural network classifier from scratch, given only unlabelled data samples. The model discovers clusters that accurately match semantic classes, achieving state-of-the-art results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Xu Ji , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Unsupervised instance segmentation aims to segment distinct object instances in an image without relying on human-labeled data. This field has recently seen significant advancements, partly due to the strong local correspondences afforded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Dylan Li , Gyungin Shin

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

We propose a novel unsupervised image segmentation algorithm, which aims to segment an image into several coherent parts. It requires no user input, no supervised learning phase and assumes an unknown number of segments. It achieves this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Aleksandar Dimitriev , Matej Kristan

Domain adaptive semantic segmentation attempts to make satisfactory dense predictions on an unlabeled target domain by utilizing the supervised model trained on a labeled source domain. In this work, we propose Semantic-Guided Pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Binhui Xie , Shuang Li , Mingjia Li , Chi Harold Liu , Gao Huang , Guoren Wang

Partitioning an image into superpixels based on the similarity of pixels with respect to features such as colour or spatial location can significantly reduce data complexity and improve subsequent image processing tasks. Initial algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jakob Geusen , Gustav Bredell , Tianfei Zhou , Ender Konukoglu