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Semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods leverage unlabeled data by pseudo-labeling them. Thus the success of these methods hinges on the reliablility of the pseudo-labels. Existing methods mostly choose high-confidence pixels in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Prantik Howlader , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

We adopt Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to be our parametric model to learn discriminative features and classifiers for local patch classification. Based on the occurrence frequency distribution of classes, an ensemble of CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Bing Shuai , Zhen Zuo , Gang Wang , Bing Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using image-level labels. Existing methods typically entangle semantic recognition and object localization, which often leads models to focus exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qingze He , Fagui Liu , Dengke Zhang , Qingmao Wei , Quan Tang

State-of-the-art results of semantic segmentation are established by Fully Convolutional neural Networks (FCNs). FCNs rely on cascaded convolutional and pooling layers to gradually enlarge the receptive fields of neurons, resulting in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Zhicheng Yan , Hao Zhang , Yangqing Jia , Thomas Breuel , Yizhou Yu

State-of-the-art methods for Transformer-based semantic segmentation typically adopt Transformer decoders that are used to extract additional embeddings from image embeddings via cross-attention, refine either or both types of embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Qishuai Wen , Chun-Guang Li

Low-shot learning methods for image classification support learning from sparse data. We extend these techniques to support dense semantic image segmentation. Specifically, we train a network that, given a small set of annotated images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Amirreza Shaban , Shray Bansal , Zhen Liu , Irfan Essa , Byron Boots

Lightweight semantic segmentation is essential for many downstream vision tasks. Unfortunately, existing methods often struggle to balance efficiency and performance due to the complexity of feature modeling. Many of these existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Mian Muhammad Naeem Abid , Nancy Mehta , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

Semantic segmentation works on the computer vision algorithm for assigning each pixel of an image into a class. The task of semantic segmentation should be performed with both accuracy and efficiency. Most of the existing deep FCNs yield to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Farshad Safavi , Irfan Ali , Venkatesh Dasari , Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Removing supervision in semantic segmentation is still tricky. Current approaches can deal with common categorical patterns yet resort to multi-stage architectures. We design a novel end-to-end model leveraging local-global patch matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Simone Rossetti , Nico Samà , Fiora Pirri

Few-shot semantic segmentation models aim to segment images after learning from only a few annotated examples. A key challenge for them is how to avoid overfitting because limited training data is available. While prior works usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yinan Zhao , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Danna Gurari

Real-world applications have high demands for semantic segmentation methods. Although semantic segmentation has made remarkable leap-forwards with deep learning, the performance of real-time methods is not satisfactory. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Juncai Peng , Yi Liu , Shiyu Tang , Yuying Hao , Lutao Chu , Guowei Chen , Zewu Wu , Zeyu Chen , Zhiliang Yu , Yuning Du , Qingqing Dang , Baohua Lai , Qiwen Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma

Incremental few-shot semantic segmentation (IFSS) targets at incrementally expanding model's capacity to segment new class of images supervised by only a few samples. However, features learned on old classes could significantly drift,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Guangchen Shi , Yirui Wu , Jun Liu , Shaohua Wan , Wenhai Wang , Tong Lu

The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka

Being able to learn dense semantic representations of images without supervision is an important problem in computer vision. However, despite its significance, this problem remains rather unexplored, with a few exceptions that considered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Luc Van Gool

Semantic segmentation involves assigning a specific category to each pixel in an image. While Vision Transformer-based models have made significant progress, current semantic segmentation methods often struggle with precise predictions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Guoan Xu , Wenfeng Huang , Tao Wu , Ligeng Chen , Wenjing Jia , Guangwei Gao , Xiatian Zhu , Stuart Perry

This paper proposes a novel deep learning architecture for semantic segmentation. The proposed Global and Selective Attention Network (GSANet) features Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) with a novel sparsemax global attention and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Qingfeng Liu , Mostafa El-Khamy , Dongwoon Bai , Jungwon Lee

High annotation costs are a major bottleneck for the training of semantic segmentation systems. Therefore, methods working with less annotation effort are of special interest. This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Olga Zatsarynna , Johann Sawatzky , Juergen Gall

Models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been proven very successful for semantic segmentation and object parsing that yield hierarchies of features. Our key insight is to build convolutional networks that take input of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jalal Mirakhorli , Hamidreza Amindavar

Being able to segment unseen classes not observed during training is an important technical challenge in deep learning, because of its potential to reduce the expensive annotation required for semantic segmentation. Prior zero-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Giuseppe Pastore , Fabio Cermelli , Yongqin Xian , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata , Barbara Caputo

In semantic segmentation knowing about all existing classes is essential to yield effective results with the majority of existing approaches. However, these methods trained in a Closed Set of classes fail when new classes are found in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Hugo Oliveira , Caio Silva , Gabriel L. S. Machado , Keiller Nogueira , Jefersson A. dos Santos