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While significant advances exist in pseudo-label generation for semi-supervised semantic segmentation, pseudo-label selection remains understudied. Existing methods typically use fixed confidence thresholds to retain high-confidence…

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There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Christopher Liao , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis

End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are usually trained to optimize the loss of the whole token sequence, while neglecting explicit phonemic-granularity supervision. This could result in recognition errors due to…

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Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

Due to the limited and even imbalanced data, semi-supervised semantic segmentation tends to have poor performance on some certain categories, e.g., tailed categories in Cityscapes dataset which exhibits a long-tailed label distribution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hanzhe Hu , Fangyun Wei , Han Hu , Qiwei Ye , Jinshi Cui , Liwei Wang

Semantic overlap among land-cover categories, highly imbalanced label distributions, and complex inter-class co-occurrence patterns constitute significant challenges for multi-label remote-sensing image retrieval. In this article,…

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This study introduces an efficacious approach, Masked Collaborative Contrast (MCC), to highlight semantic regions in weakly supervised semantic segmentation. MCC adroitly draws inspiration from masked image modeling and contrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Fangwen Wu , Jingxuan He , Yufei Yin , Yanbin Hao , Gang Huang , Lechao Cheng

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

Learning semantic segmentation from weakly-labeled (e.g., image tags only) data is challenging since it is hard to infer dense object regions from sparse semantic tags. Despite being broadly studied, most current efforts directly learn from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Tianfei Zhou , Meijie Zhang , Fang Zhao , Jianwu Li

Contrastive learning (CL) aims to learn useful representation without relying on expert annotations in the context of medical image segmentation. Existing approaches mainly contrast a single positive vector (i.e., an augmentation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chenyu You , Ruihan Zhao , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation relieves the reliance on large-scale labeled data by leveraging unlabeled data. Recent semi-supervised semantic segmentation approaches mainly resort to pseudo-labeling methods to exploit unlabeled…

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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for Chest X-ray (CXR) analysis under limited annotations. Yet, existing SSL strategies remain suboptimal for medical imaging. Masked image modeling allocates substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wangyu Feng , Shawn Young , Lijian Xu

In semi-supervised semantic segmentation, a model is trained with a limited number of labeled images along with a large corpus of unlabeled images to reduce the high annotation effort. While previous methods are able to learn good…

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To minimize the annotation costs associated with the training of semantic segmentation models, researchers have extensively investigated weakly-supervised segmentation approaches. In the current weakly-supervised segmentation methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Wataru Shimoda , Keiji Yanai

Semi-supervised learning offers an appealing solution for remote sensing (RS) image segmentation to relieve the burden of labor-intensive pixel-level labeling. However, RS images pose unique challenges, including rich multi-scale features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shanwen Wang , Xin Sun , Changrui Chen , Danfeng Hong , Jungong Han

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success on various high-level tasks, but there are fewer contrastive learning-based methods proposed for low-level tasks. It is challenging to adopt vanilla contrastive learning technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Gang Wu , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

We propose a novel method for semantic segmentation, the task of labeling each pixel in an image with a semantic class. Our method combines the advantages of the two main competing paradigms. Methods based on region classification offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Holger Caesar , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Recent work on curvilinear structure segmentation has mostly focused on backbone network design and loss engineering. The challenge of collecting labelled data, an expensive and labor intensive process, has been overlooked. While labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Xun Xu , Manh Cuong Nguyen , Yasin Yazici , Kangkang Lu , Hlaing Min , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Deep convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation achieve outstanding accuracy, however they also have a couple of major drawbacks: first, they do not generalize well to distributions slightly different from the one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Francesco Barbato , Marco Toldo , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

In medical image analysis, multi-organ semi-supervised segmentation faces challenges such as insufficient labels and low contrast in soft tissues. To address these issues, existing studies typically employ semi-supervised segmentation…

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