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This work presents a novel approach for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. The key element of this approach is our contrastive learning module that enforces the segmentation network to yield similar pixel-level feature representations…

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Despite the remarkable progress, weakly supervised segmentation approaches are still inferior to their fully supervised counterparts. We obverse the performance gap mainly comes from their limitation on learning to produce high-quality…

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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation has been well-studied in recent years. However, most existing works largely neglect the local regional consistency across different domains and are less robust to changes in…

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This paper addresses text-supervised semantic segmentation, aiming to learn a model capable of segmenting arbitrary visual concepts within images by using only image-text pairs without dense annotations. Existing methods have demonstrated…

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Pixel-level labels are particularly expensive to acquire. Hence, pretraining is a critical step to improve models on a task like semantic segmentation. However, prominent algorithms for pretraining neural networks use image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mathilde Caron , Neil Houlsby , Cordelia Schmid

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) employing weak forms of labels has been actively studied to alleviate the annotation cost of acquiring pixel-level labels. However, classifiers trained on biased datasets tend to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 JuneHyoung Kwon , Eunju Lee , Yunsung Cho , YoungBin Kim

Current semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods mainly focus on designing pixel-level consistency and contrastive regularization. However, pixel-level regularization is sensitive to noise from pixels with incorrect predictions, and…

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Recent advancements in self-supervised learning have demonstrated that effective visual representations can be learned from unlabeled images. This has led to increased interest in applying self-supervised learning to the medical domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Xiangyi Yan , Junayed Naushad , Chenyu You , Hao Tang , Shanlin Sun , Kun Han , Haoyu Ma , James Duncan , Xiaohui Xie

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

Semantic segmentation has made tremendous progress in recent years. However, satisfying performance highly depends on a large number of pixel-level annotations. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the semi-supervised segmentation problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Li Jiang , Shu Liu , Hengshuang Zhao , Liwei Wang , Jiaya Jia

We present a causal inference framework to improve Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS). Specifically, we aim to generate better pixel-level pseudo-masks by using only image-level labels -- the most crucial step in WSSS. We…

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Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with only image-level labels aims to reduce annotation costs for the segmentation task. Existing approaches generally leverage class activation maps (CAMs) to locate the object regions for pseudo…

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Since acquiring pixel-wise annotations for training convolutional neural networks for semantic image segmentation is time-consuming, weakly supervised approaches that only require class tags have been proposed. In this work, we propose…

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Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

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Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) approaches typically rely on class activation maps (CAMs) for initial seed generation, which often fail to capture global context due to limited supervision from image-level labels. To address…

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While class activation map (CAM) generated by image classification network has been widely used for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) and semantic segmentation (WSSS), such classifiers usually focus on discriminative object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Jinheng Xie , Jianfeng Xiang , Junliang Chen , Xianxu Hou , Xiaodong Zhao , Linlin Shen

Semantic communications has received growing interest since it can remarkably reduce the amount of data to be transmitted without missing critical information. Most existing works explore the semantic encoding and transmission for text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Danlan Huang , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Qiyuan Du , Jianhua Lu

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

Recently, contrastive learning-based image translation methods have been proposed, which contrasts different spatial locations to enhance the spatial correspondence. However, the methods often ignore the diverse semantic relation within the…

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