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In this paper, we present a new image segmentation method based on the concept of sparse subset selection. Starting with an over-segmentation, we adopt local spectral histogram features to encode the visual information of the small segments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Fariba Zohrizadeh , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Farhad Kamangar

We propose a novel semi-supervised image segmentation method that simultaneously optimizes a supervised segmentation and an unsupervised reconstruction objectives. The reconstruction objective uses an attention mechanism that separates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Shuai Chen , Gerda Bortsova , Antonio Garcia-Uceda Juarez , Gijs van Tulder , Marleen de Bruijne

Unsupervised learning has always been appealing to machine learning researchers and practitioners, allowing them to avoid an expensive and complicated process of labeling the data. However, unsupervised learning of complex data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

Unsupervised panoptic segmentation aims to partition an image into semantically meaningful regions and distinct object instances without training on manually annotated data. In contrast to prior work on unsupervised panoptic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers , Christian Rupprecht , Stefan Roth

For the majority of the learning-based segmentation methods, a large quantity of high-quality training data is required. In this paper, we present a novel learning-based segmentation model that could be trained semi- or un- supervised.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Junyu Chen , Eric C. Frey

Is strong supervision necessary for learning a good visual representation? Do we really need millions of semantically-labeled images to train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)? In this paper, we present a simple yet surprisingly powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Xiaolong Wang , Abhinav Gupta

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method for hyperspectral remote sensing image segmentation. The method exploits the mean-shift clustering algorithm that takes as input a preliminary hyperspectral superpixels segmentation together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Mirko Paolo Barbato , Paolo Napoletano , Flavio Piccoli , Raimondo Schettini

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at grouping different semantic patterns in an image without the use of human annotation. Similarly, image clustering searches for groupings of images based on their semantic content without supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Isaac Wasserman , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Image smoothing represents a fundamental component of many disparate computer vision and graphics applications. In this paper, we present a unified unsupervised (label-free) learning framework that facilitates generating flexible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , David Wipf , Baoquan Chen , Xin Tong

Due to strong learning abilities of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), they have become mainstream methods for image super-resolution. However, there are big differences of different deep learning methods with different types. There is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chunwei Tian , Mingjian Song , Wangmeng Zuo , Bo Du , Yanning Zhang , Shichao Zhang

The immense success of deep learning based methods in computer vision heavily relies on large scale training datasets. These richly annotated datasets help the network learn discriminative visual features. Collecting and annotating such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Yash Patel , Lluis Gomez , Raul Gomez , Marçal Rusiñol , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing computer vision challenges that involve decomposing an image into semantically-meaningful segments without any labeled data. These tasks are particularly interesting in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at assigning the pixels with similar feature into a same cluster without annotation, which is an important task in computer vision. Due to lack of prior knowledge, most of existing model usually need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhichao Wu , Lei Guo , Hao Zhang , Dan Xu

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for hyperspectral image classification. As a common process, small cubes are firstly cropped from the hyperspectral image and then fed into CNNs to extract spectral and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Renlong Hang , Zhu Li , Qingshan Liu , Pedram Ghamisi , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

With the rapid development of deep learning, a variety of change detection methods based on deep learning have emerged in recent years. However, these methods usually require a large number of training samples to train the network model, so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Weidong Yan , Pei Yan , Li Cao

Superpixel algorithms are a common pre-processing step for computer vision algorithms such as segmentation, object tracking and localization. Many superpixel methods only rely on colors features for segmentation, limiting performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Thomas Verelst , Matthew Blaschko , Maxim Berman

Features play a crucial role in computer vision. Initially designed to detect salient elements by means of handcrafted algorithms, features are now often learned by different layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Loris Nanni , Stefano Ghidoni , Sheryl Brahnam

Biomedical image segmentation plays a significant role in computer-aided diagnosis. However, existing CNN based methods rely heavily on massive manual annotations, which are very expensive and require huge human resources. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ruifei Zhang , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

Superpixel segmentation aims at dividing the input image into some representative regions containing pixels with similar and consistent intrinsic properties, without any prior knowledge about the shape and size of each superpixel. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Hua Li , Yuheng Jia , Runmin Cong , Wenhui Wu , Sam Kwong , Chuanbo Chen