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Class activation maps are widely used for explaining deep neural networks. Due to its ability to highlight regions of interest, it has evolved in recent years as a key step in weakly supervised learning. A major limitation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Hang-Cheng Dong , Yuhao Jiang , Yingyan Huang , Jingxiao Liao , Bingguo Liu , Dong Ye , Guodong Liu

Most existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) to extract coarse class-specific localization maps using image-level labels. Prior works have commonly used an off-line heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lian Xu , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Wanli Ouyang , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation aims to reduce labeling costs by training semantic segmentation models using weak supervision, such as image-level class labels. However, most approaches struggle to produce accurate localization maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Sanghyun Jo , In-Jae Yu , Kyungsu Kim

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

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to learn the concepts of attributes and objects in seen compositions and to recognize their unseen compositions. Most Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)-based CZSL methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pan Yang , Cheng Deng , Jing Yang , Han Zhao , Yun Liu , Yuling Chen , Xiaoli Ruan , Yanping Chen

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in learning effective representations, with supervised contrastive learning often outperforming self-supervised approaches. However, in real-world scenarios, data annotations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zi-Hao Zhou , Jun-Jie Wang , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) is a task that detects objects in an image using a model trained only on image-level annotations. Current state-of-the-art models benefit from self-supervised instance-level supervision, but since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jinhwan Seo , Wonho Bae , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh , Daijin Kim

In this work, we propose a new transformer-based regularization to better localize objects for Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). In image-level WSSS, Class Activation Map (CAM) is adopted to generate object localization as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Weixuan Sun , Yanhao Zhang , Zhen Qin , Zheyuan Liu , Lin Cheng , Fanyi Wang , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes

We propose a novel setting for learning, where the input domain is the image of a map defined on the product of two sets, one of which completely determines the labels. We derive a new risk bound for this setting that decomposes into a bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Charles Jin , Martin Rinard

Zero-shot object detection (ZSD), the task that extends conventional detection models to detecting objects from unseen categories, has emerged as a new challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches tackle the ZSD task with a strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Caixia Yan , Xiaojun Chang , Minnan Luo , Huan Liu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Qinghua Zheng

Unsupervised learning has recently made exceptional progress because of the development of more effective contrastive learning methods. However, CNNs are prone to depend on low-level features that humans deem non-semantic. This dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Songwei Ge , Shlok Mishra , Haohan Wang , Chun-Liang Li , David Jacobs

Weakly supervised methods, such as class activation maps (CAM) based, have been applied to achieve bleeding segmentation with low annotation efforts in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) images. However, the CAM labels tend to be extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Fan Bai , Xiaohan Xing , Yutian Shen , Han Ma , Max Q. -H. Meng

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) addresses the challenge of training segmentation models using only image-level annotations. Existing WSSS methods struggle with precise object boundary localization and focus only on the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ali Torabi , Sanjog Gaihre , MD Mahbubur Rahman , Yaqoob Majeed

Visual localization is a crucial component in the application of mobile robot and autonomous driving. Image retrieval is an efficient and effective technique in image-based localization methods. Due to the drastic variability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Hanjiang Hu , Hesheng Wang , Zhe Liu , Weidong Chen

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment novel-class objects in a query image with only a few annotated examples in support images. Most of advanced solutions exploit a metric learning framework that performs segmentation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

Generating precise class-aware pseudo ground-truths, a.k.a, class activation maps (CAMs), is essential for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation. The original CAM method usually produces incomplete and inaccurate localization maps. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jinlong Li , Zequn Jie , Xu Wang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

Extracting class activation maps (CAM) is arguably the most standard step of generating pseudo masks for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). Yet, we find that the crux of the unsatisfactory pseudo masks is the binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Tan Wang , Xiongwei Wu , Xian-Sheng Hua , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) aims at learning precise object detectors with only image-level tags. In spite of intensive research on deep learning (DL) approaches over the past few years, there is still a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Qi Lai , ChiMan Vong

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL), which aims to localize objects by only using image-level labels, has attracted much attention because of its low annotation cost in real applications. Recent studies leverage the advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haotian Bai , Ruimao Zhang , Jiong Wang , Xiang Wan

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun