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We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

This paper presents a weakly supervised image segmentation method that adopts tight bounding box annotations. It proposes generalized multiple instance learning (MIL) and smooth maximum approximation to integrate the bounding box tightness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Juan Wang , Bin Xia

Dense annotations, such as segmentation masks, are expensive and time-consuming to obtain, especially for 3D medical images where expert voxel-wise labeling is required. Weakly supervised approaches aim to address this limitation, but often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Richard Petersen , Fredrik Kahl , Jennifer Alvén

Manually annotating object segmentation masks is very time-consuming. While interactive segmentation methods offer a more efficient alternative, they become unaffordable at a large scale because the cost grows linearly with the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Ethan Weber , Antonio Torralba

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

Object detection and instance segmentation are dominated by region-based methods such as Mask RCNN. However, there is a growing interest in reducing these problems to pixel labeling tasks, as the latter could be more efficient, could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 David Novotny , Samuel Albanie , Diane Larlus , Andrea Vedaldi

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The annotation of 3D datasets is required for semantic-segmentation and object detection in scene understanding. In this paper we present a framework for the weakly supervision of a point clouds transformer that is used for 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zuojin Tang , Bo Sun , Tongwei Ma , Daosheng Li , Zhenhui Xu

This paper investigates indoor point cloud semantic segmentation under scene-level annotation, which is less explored compared to methods relying on sparse point-level labels. In the absence of precise point-level labels, current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Xingxing Weng , Jing Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

In this paper, we introduce a novel learning scheme named weakly semi-supervised instance segmentation (WSSIS) with point labels for budget-efficient and high-performance instance segmentation. Namely, we consider a dataset setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Beomyoung Kim , Joonhyun Jeong , Dongyoon Han , Sung Ju Hwang

In recent years, the state-of-the-art in unsupervised video instance segmentation has heavily relied on synthetic video data, generated from object-centric image datasets such as ImageNet. However, video synthesis by artificially shifting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Leon Sick , Lukas Hoyer , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Deep learning for detecting objects in remotely sensed imagery can enable new technologies for important applications including mitigating climate change. However, these models often require large datasets labeled with bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Ji Hun Wang , Jeremy Irvin , Beri Kohen Behar , Ha Tran , Raghav Samavedam , Quentin Hsu , Andrew Y. Ng

Semantic segmentation has achieved huge progress via adopting deep Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN). However, the performance of FCN based models severely rely on the amounts of pixel-level annotations which are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Chunfeng Song , Yan Huang , Wanli Ouyang , Liang Wang

The vast majority of semantic segmentation approaches rely on pixel-level annotations that are tedious and time consuming to obtain and suffer from significant inter and intra-expert variability. To address these issues, recent approaches…

We propose a novel weakly supervised learning segmentation based on several global constraints derived from box annotations. Particularly, we leverage a classical tightness prior to a deep learning setting via imposing a set of constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Hoel Kervadec , Jose Dolz , Shanshan Wang , Eric Granger , Ismail Ben Ayed

Weakly supervised LiDAR semantic segmentation has made significant strides with limited labeled data. However, most existing methods focus on the network training under weak supervision, while efficient annotation strategies remain largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yilong Chen , Zongyi Xu , xiaoshui Huang , Ruicheng Zhang , Xinqi Jiang , Xinbo Gao

We present a bottom-up approach for the task of object instance segmentation using a single-shot model. The proposed model employs a fully convolutional network which is trained to predict class-wise segmentation masks as well as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Jacob Richeimer , Jonathan Mitchell

We introduce $\textit{InExtremIS}$, a weakly supervised 3D approach to train a deep image segmentation network using particularly weak train-time annotations: only 6 extreme clicks at the boundary of the objects of interest. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Reuben Dorent , Samuel Joutard , Jonathan Shapey , Aaron Kujawa , Marc Modat , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

In this paper, we propose DeepCut, a method to obtain pixelwise object segmentations given an image dataset labelled with bounding box annotations. It extends the approach of the well-known GrabCut method to include machine learning by…

The key to a successful cascade architecture for precise instance segmentation is to fully leverage the relationship between bounding box detection and mask segmentation across multiple stages. Although modern instance segmentation cascades…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hao Ding , Siyuan Qiao , Alan Yuille , Wei Shen