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Open-World Instance Segmentation (OWIS) is an emerging research topic that aims to segment class-agnostic object instances from images. The mainstream approaches use a two-stage segmentation framework, which first locates the candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Xizhe Xue , Dongdong Yu , Lingqiao Liu , Yu Liu , Satoshi Tsutsui , Ying Li , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Song , Mike Zheng Shou

This paper adresses the problem of interactive multiclass segmentation. We propose a fast and efficient new interactive segmentation method called Superpixel Classification-based Interactive Segmentation (SCIS). From a few strokes drawn by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Bérengère Mathieu , Alain Crouzil , Jean-Baptiste Puel

The pretraining-finetuning paradigm has gained widespread adoption in vision tasks and other fields, yet it faces the significant challenge of high sample annotation costs. To mitigate this, the concept of active finetuning has emerged,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Han Lu , Yichen Xie , Xiaokang Yang , Junchi Yan

Active learning enhances annotation efficiency by selecting the most revealing samples for labeling, thereby reducing reliance on extensive human input. Previous methods in semantic segmentation have centered on individual pixels or small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinchao Ge , Zeyu Zhang , Minh Hieu Phan , Bowen Zhang , Akide Liu , Yang Zhao , Shuwen Zhao

This paper is about few-shot instance segmentation, where training and test image sets do not share the same object classes. We specify and evaluate a new few-shot anchor-free part-based instance segmenter FAPIS. Our key novelty is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Khoi Nguyen , Sinisa Todorovic

A major obstacle in instance segmentation is that existing methods often need many per-pixel labels in order to be effective. These labels require large human effort and for certain applications, such labels are not readily available. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Issam H. Laradji , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt

Recently, an audio-visual instance segmentation (AVIS) task has been introduced, aiming to identify, segment and track individual sounding instances in videos. However, prevailing methods primarily adopt the offline paradigm, that cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yingjian Zhu , Ying Wang , Yuyang Hong , Ruohao Guo , Kun Ding , Xin Gu , Bin Fan , Shiming Xiang

Active learning is an effective technique for reducing the labeling cost by improving data efficiency. In this work, we propose a novel batch acquisition strategy for active learning in the setting where the model training is performed in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zalán Borsos , Marco Tagliasacchi , Andreas Krause

The realm of Weakly Supervised Instance Segmentation (WSIS) under box supervision has garnered substantial attention, showcasing remarkable advancements in recent years. However, the limitations of box supervision become apparent in its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xinyi Yu , Ling Yan , Pengtao Jiang , Hao Chen , Bo Li , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Linlin Ou

Large, fine-grained image segmentation datasets, annotated at pixel-level, are difficult to obtain, particularly in medical imaging, where annotations also require expert knowledge. Weakly-supervised learning can train models by relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Open-vocabulary instance segmentation aims at segmenting novel classes without mask annotations. It is an important step toward reducing laborious human supervision. Most existing works first pretrain a model on captioned images covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dat Huynh , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Jiuxiang Gu , Ehsan Elhamifar

Background: The quantitative analysis of microscope videos often requires instance segmentation and tracking of cellular and subcellular objects. The traditional method consists of two stages: (1) performing instance object segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Quan Liu , Isabella M. Gaeta , Mengyang Zhao , Ruining Deng , Aadarsh Jha , Bryan A. Millis , Anita Mahadevan-Jansen , Matthew J. Tyska , Yuankai Huo

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) - the problem of identifying objects in images through natural language sentences - is a challenging task currently mostly solved through supervised learning. However, while collecting referred annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Francisco Eiras , Kemal Oksuz , Adel Bibi , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Supervised machine learning often requires large training sets to train accurate models, yet obtaining large amounts of labeled data is not always feasible. Hence, it becomes crucial to explore active learning methods for reducing the size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ashna Jose , Emilie Devijver , Massih-Reza Amini , Noel Jakse , Roberta Poloni

Despite the availability of large datasets for tasks like image classification and image-text alignment, labeled data for more complex recognition tasks, such as detection and segmentation, is less abundant. In particular, for instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 François Porcher , Camille Couprie , Marc Szafraniec , Jakob Verbeek

Instance segmentation is the problem of detecting and delineating each distinct object of interest appearing in an image. Current instance segmentation approaches consist of ensembles of modules that are trained independently of each other,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Bernardino Romera-Paredes , Philip H. S. Torr

Instance segmentation is an important computer vision problem which remains challenging despite impressive recent advances due to deep learning-based methods. Given sufficient training data, fully supervised methods can yield excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Paul Hilt , Maedeh Zarvandi , Edgar Kaziakhmedov , Sourabh Bhide , Maria Leptin , Constantin Pape , Anna Kreshuk

We develop the first active learning method for contextual linear optimization. Specifically, we introduce a label acquisition algorithm that sequentially decides whether to request the ``labels'' of feature samples from an unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Mo Liu , Paul Grigas , Heyuan Liu , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

In this paper, we propose a simple yet efficientinstance segmentation approach based on the single-stage anchor-free detector, termed SAIS. In our approach, the instancesegmentation task consists of two parallel subtasks which re-spectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Canqun Xiang , Shishun Tian , Wenbin Zou , Chen Xu

Classification is an important task in many fields including biomedical research and machine learning. Traditionally, a classification rule is constructed based a bunch of labeled data. Recently, due to technological innovation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-19 Jing Wang , Eunsik Park , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang