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Instance segmentation is of great importance for many biological applications, such as study of neural cell interactions, plant phenotyping, and quantitatively measuring how cells react to drug treatment. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jingru Yi , Pengxiang Wu , Hui Tang , Bo Liu , Qiaoying Huang , Hui Qu , Lianyi Han , Wei Fan , Daniel J. Hoeppner , Dimitris N. Metaxas

In this paper, we study weakly-supervised laparoscopic image segmentation with sparse annotations. We introduce a novel Bayesian deep learning approach designed to enhance both the accuracy and interpretability of the model's segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zhou Zheng , Yuichiro Hayashi , Masahiro Oda , Takayuki Kitasaka , Kensaku Mori

Medical image segmentation typically necessitates a large and precisely annotated dataset. However, obtaining pixel-wise annotation is a labor-intensive task that requires significant effort from domain experts, making it challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Heng Cai , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

The great progress of 3D object detectors relies on large-scale data and 3D annotations. The annotation cost for 3D bounding boxes is extremely expensive while the 2D ones are easier and cheaper to collect. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jinrong Yang , Tiancai Wang , Zheng Ge , Weixin Mao , Xiaoping Li , Xiangyu Zhang

In this paper, we focus on improving binary 2D instance segmentation to assist humans in labeling ground truth datasets with polygons. Humans labeler just have to draw boxes around objects, and polygons are generated automatically. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Darshan Ganganna Ravindra , Laslo Dinges , Al-Hamadi Ayoub , Vasili Baranau

Accurate segmentation of organelle instances from electron microscopy (EM) images plays an essential role in many neuroscience researches. However, practical scenarios usually suffer from high annotation costs, label scarcity, and large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Dafei Qiu , Shan Xiong , Jiajin Yi , Jialin Peng

Weakly supervised 3D object detection aims to learn a 3D detector with lower annotation cost, e.g., 2D labels. Unlike prior work which still relies on few accurate 3D annotations, we propose a framework to study how to leverage constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Kuan-Chih Huang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont

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

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

Unsupervised and open-vocabulary 3D object detection has recently gained attention, particularly in autonomous driving, where reducing annotation costs and recognizing unseen objects are critical for both safety and scalability. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 In-Jae Lee , Mungyeom Kim , Kwonyoung Ryu , Pierre Musacchio , Jaesik Park

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) 3D object detection methods often require a large amount of 3D bounding box annotations for training. However, collecting such large-scale densely-supervised datasets is notoriously costly. To reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenqiang Gao , Chuandong Liu , Jun Shu , Fangcen Liu , Jiang Liu , Luyu Yang , Xinbo Gao , Deyu Meng

Competitive point cloud semantic segmentation results usually rely on a large amount of labeled data. However, data annotation is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, particularly for three-dimensional point cloud data. Thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao

Existing works on semantic segmentation typically consider a small number of labels, ranging from tens to a few hundreds. With a large number of labels, training and evaluation of such task become extremely challenging due to correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yufei Wang , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jianming Zhang , Scott Cohen

Despite the remarkable accuracy of deep neural networks in object detection, they are costly to train and scale due to supervision requirements. Particularly, learning more object categories typically requires proportionally more bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Alireza Zareian , Kevin Dela Rosa , Derek Hao Hu , Shih-Fu Chang

Accurate segmentation for medical images is important for clinical diagnosis. Existing automatic segmentation methods are mainly based on fully supervised learning and have an extremely high demand for precise annotations, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yuanpeng Liu , Qinglei Hui , Zhiyi Peng , Shaolin Gong , Dexing Kong

Most recent 3D instance segmentation methods are open vocabulary, offering a greater flexibility than closed-vocabulary methods. Yet, they are limited to reasoning within a specific set of concepts, \ie the vocabulary, prompted by the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Guofeng Mei , Luigi Riz , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi

Interactive segmentation allows efficient label generation by leveraging user-provided clicks to progressively refine predictions, which is critical when fully supervised labels are costly or generalization to unseen classes is needed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xueyang Kang , Zijian Yu , Kourosh Khoshelham , Liangliang Nan

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene