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Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) relaxes the requirement of dense annotations for object localization by using image-level classification masks to supervise its learning process. However, current WSOL methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Lei Zhu , Qi She , Qian Chen , Xiangxi Meng , Mufeng Geng , Lujia Jin , Zhe Jiang , Bin Qiu , Yunfei You , Yibao Zhang , Qiushi Ren , Yanye Lu

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize target objects in images using only image-level labels. Despite recent progress, many approaches still rely on multi-stage pipelines or full fine-tuning of large backbones, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Arian Sabaghi , José Oramas

Self-supervised vision transformers (SSTs) have shown great potential to yield rich localization maps that highlight different objects in an image. However, these maps remain class-agnostic since the model is unsupervised. They often tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Aydin Sarraf , Eric Granger

Drones are employed in a growing number of visual recognition applications. A recent development in cell tower inspection is drone-based asset surveillance, where the autonomous flight of a drone is guided by localizing objects of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Aydin Sarraf , Eric Granger

A critical object detection task is finetuning an existing model to detect novel objects, but the standard workflow requires bounding box annotations which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. Weakly supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tyler LaBonte , Yale Song , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi

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. Current studies focus on the Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xi Yang , Songsong Duan , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

This work addresses the task of weakly-supervised object localization. The goal is to learn object localization using only image-level class labels, which are much easier to obtain compared to bounding box annotations. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 David Kim , Sinhae Cha , Byeongkeun Kang

We present a two-stage learning framework for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL). While most previous efforts rely on high-level feature based CAMs (Class Activation Maps), this paper proposes to localize objects using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jinheng Xie , Cheng Luo , Xiangping Zhu , Ziqi Jin , Weizeng Lu , Linlin Shen

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD), using only image-level annotations to train object detectors, is of growing importance in object recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel deep network for WSOD. Unlike previous networks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Song Bai , Wei Shen , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu , Alan Yuille

Using deep learning models to diagnose cancer from histology data presents several challenges. Cancer grading and localization of regions of interest (ROIs) in these images normally relies on both image- and pixel-level labels, the latter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jérôme Rony , Soufiane Belharbi , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Weakly-Supervised Video Object Localization (WSVOL) involves localizing an object in videos using only video-level labels, also referred to as tags. State-of-the-art WSVOL methods like Temporal CAM (TCAM) rely on class activation mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shakeeb Murtaza , Marco Pedersoli , Aydin Sarraf , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is a challenging task to localize the object by only category labels. However, there is contradiction between classification and localization because accurate classification network tends to pay…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Ming Li

The recent emerged weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) methods can learn to localize an object in the image only using image-level labels. Previous works endeavor to perceive the interval objects from the small and sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Li Zhang , Lu Ye , Siliang Tang , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to learn object localizer solely by using image-level labels. The convolution neural network (CNN) based techniques often result in highlighting the most discriminative part of objects while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zhiwei Chen , Changan Wang , Yabiao Wang , Guannan Jiang , Yunhang Shen , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Wei Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) strives to learn to localize objects with only image-level supervision. Due to the local receptive fields generated by convolution operations, previous CNN-based methods suffer from partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yiwen Cao , Yukun Su , Wenjun Wang , Yanxia Liu , Qingyao Wu

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) models enable joint classification and region-of-interest localization in histology images using only image-class supervision. When deployed in a target domain, distributions shift remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alexis Guichemerre , Banafsheh Karimian , Soufiane Belharbi , Natacha Gillet , Nicolas Thome , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Existing object localization methods are tailored to locate specific classes of objects, relying heavily on abundant labeled data for model optimization. However, acquiring large amounts of labeled data is challenging in many real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yunhan Ren , Bo Li , Chengyang Zhang , Yong Zhang , Baocai Yin

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) enables the training of object detection models using only image-level annotations. State-of-the-art WSOD detectors commonly rely on multi-instance learning (MIL) as the backbone of their detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhaofei Wang , Weijia Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) aims to classify and locate objects with only image-level supervision. Many WSOD approaches adopt multiple instance learning as the initial model, which is prone to converge to the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Wenlong Gao , Ying Chen , Yong Peng

Localizing objects with weak supervision in an image is a key problem of the research in computer vision community. Many existing Weakly-Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) approaches tackle this problem by estimating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Pei Lv , Haiyu Yu , Junxiao Xue , Junjin Cheng , Lisha Cui , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang