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Self-attention is of vital importance in semantic segmentation as it enables modeling of long-range context, which translates into improved performance. We argue that it is equally important to model short-range context, especially to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

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

Radiance Fields have become a powerful tool for modeling 3D scenes from multiple images. However, they remain difficult to segment into semantically meaningful regions. Some methods work well using 2D semantic masks, but they generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Corentin Dumery , Aoxiang Fan , Ren Li , Nicolas Talabot , Pascal Fua

We propose an embarrassingly simple point annotation scheme to collect weak supervision for instance segmentation. In addition to bounding boxes, we collect binary labels for a set of points uniformly sampled inside each bounding box. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Omkar Parkhi , Alexander Kirillov

Medical image segmentation is a crucial task in medical image analysis, but it can be very challenging especially when there are less labeled data but with large unlabeled data. Contrastive learning has proven to be effective for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shihuan He , Zhihui Lai , Ruxin Wang , Heng Kong

In this work, we present a novel and effective framework to facilitate object detection with the instance-level segmentation information that is only supervised by bounding box annotation. Starting from the joint object detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Xiangyun Zhao , Shuang Liang , Yichen Wei

Reliable detection of anomalies is crucial when deploying machine learning models in practice, but remains challenging due to the lack of labeled data. To tackle this challenge, contrastive learning approaches are becoming increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Puck de Haan , Sindy Löwe

Recognizing multiple objects in an image is challenging due to occlusions, and becomes even more so when the objects are small. While promising, existing multi-label image recognition models do not explicitly learn context-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Advanced self-supervised visual representation learning methods rely on the instance discrimination (ID) pretext task. We point out that the ID task has an implicit semantic consistency (SC) assumption, which may not hold in unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yucheng Zhao , Guangting Wang , Chong Luo , Wenjun Zeng , Zheng-Jun Zha

Online tracking of multiple objects in videos requires strong capacity of modeling and matching object appearances. Previous methods for learning appearance embedding mostly rely on instance-level matching without considering the temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Wei Li , Yuanjun Xiong , Shuo Yang , Mingze Xu , Yongxin Wang , Wei Xia

Instance segmentation models today are very accurate when trained on large annotated datasets, but collecting mask annotations at scale is prohibitively expensive. We address the partially supervised instance segmentation problem in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Vighnesh Birodkar , Zhichao Lu , Siyang Li , Vivek Rathod , Jonathan Huang

Few-shot segmentation enables the model to recognize unseen classes with few annotated examples. Most existing methods adopt prototype learning architecture, where support prototype vectors are expanded and concatenated with query features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xiaoyu Zhao , Xiaoqian Chen , Zhiqiang Gong , Wen Yao , Yunyang Zhang , Xiaohu Zheng

Obtaining annotations for 3D medical images is expensive and time-consuming, despite its importance for automating segmentation tasks. Although multi-task learning is considered an effective method for training segmentation models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Junichiro Iwasawa , Yuichiro Hirano , Yohei Sugawara

Instance segmentation is essential for applications such as automated monitoring of plant health, growth, and yield. However, extensive effort is required to create large-scale datasets with pixel-level annotations of each object instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Keyhan Najafian , Farhad Maleki , Lingling Jin , Ian Stavness

Visual domain gaps often impact object detection performance. Image-to-image translation can mitigate this effect, where contrastive approaches enable learning of the image-to-image mapping under unsupervised regimes. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Danai Triantafyllidou , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

The prior self-supervised learning researches mainly select image-level instance discrimination as pretext task. It achieves a fantastic classification performance that is comparable to supervised learning methods. However, with degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Bing Zhao , Jun Li , Hong Zhu

We present ReCo, a contrastive learning framework designed at a regional level to assist learning in semantic segmentation. ReCo performs semi-supervised or supervised pixel-level contrastive learning on a sparse set of hard negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shikun Liu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Edward Johns , Andrew J. Davison

Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have paved the way for unsupervised methods tackling tasks such as object discovery and instance segmentation. However, discovering objects in an image with no supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Oriane Siméoni , Chloé Sekkat , Gilles Puy , Antonin Vobecky , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez

The task of unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to cluster pixels into semantically meaningful groups. Specifically, pixels assigned to the same cluster should share high-level semantic properties like their object or part category.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Luc Van Gool

We introduce a novel approach to unsupervised and semi-supervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation. Unlike many earlier methods that rely on adversarial learning for feature alignment, we leverage contrastive learning to bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Weizhe Liu , David Ferstl , Samuel Schulter , Lukas Zebedin , Pascal Fua , Christian Leistner