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Most existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) to extract coarse class-specific localization maps using image-level labels. Prior works have commonly used an off-line heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lian Xu , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Wanli Ouyang , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Compared with expensive pixel-wise annotations, image-level labels make it possible to learn semantic segmentation in a weakly-supervised manner. Within this pipeline, the class activation map (CAM) is obtained and further processed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Yicong Hong , Nick Barnes

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation has attracted much research interest in recent years considering its advantage of low labeling cost. Most of the advanced algorithms follow the design principle that expands and constrains the seed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Semantic segmentation aims to classify every pixel of an input image. Considering the difficulty of acquiring dense labels, researchers have recently been resorting to weak labels to alleviate the annotation burden of segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yazhou Yao , Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Chuanyi Zhang , Fumin Shen , Qi Wu , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models using image data with only image-level supervision. Since precise pixel-level annotations are not accessible, existing methods typically focus on producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ci-Siang Lin , Chien-Yi Wang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen

We propose a weakly-supervised framework for the semantic segmentation of circular-scan synthetic-aperture-sonar (CSAS) imagery. The first part of our framework is trained in a supervised manner, on image-level labels, to uncover a set of…

Semantic segmentation has been continuously investigated in the last ten years, and majority of the established technologies are based on supervised models. In recent years, image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Peng Zhu , Tianyang Zhang , Chen Li , Huiyu Zhou , Licheng Jiao

Currently, existing efforts in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have predominantly focused on enhancing the multi-label classification network stage, with limited attention given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jia Zhang , Bo Peng , Xi Wu

Medical image segmentation requires not only accuracy but also robustness under challenging imaging conditions. In this study, we show that a carefully configured DeepLabv3 model can achieve high performance in segmenting induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Maoquan Zhang , Bisser Raytchev , Xiujuan Sun

The costly process of obtaining semantic segmentation labels has driven research towards weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods, using only image-level, point, or box labels. The lack of dense scene representation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Peri Akiva , Kristin Dana

Weakly-supervised instance segmentation (WSIS) has been considered as a more challenging task than weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). Compared to WSSS, WSIS requires instance-wise localization, which is difficult to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Beomyoung Kim , Youngjoon Yoo , Chaeeun Rhee , Junmo Kim

Accurate segmentation of the fetal brain from Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) is important for prenatal assessment of fetal development. Although deep learning has shown the potential to achieve this task, it requires a large fine annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jia Fu , Tao Lu , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

The collection of a high number of pixel-based labeled training samples for tree species identification is time consuming and costly in operational forestry applications. To address this problem, in this paper we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Steve Ahlswede , Nimisha Thekke-Madam , Christian Schulz , Birgit Kleinschmit , Begüm Demir

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) approaches typically rely on class activation maps (CAMs) for initial seed generation, which often fail to capture global context due to limited supervision from image-level labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soojin Jang , Jungmin Yun , Junehyoung Kwon , Eunju Lee , Youngbin Kim

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

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) based on image-level labels has been greatly advanced by exploiting the outputs of Class Activation Map (CAM) to generate the pseudo labels for semantic segmentation. However, CAM merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Fei Zhang , Chaochen Gu , Chenyue Zhang , Yuchao Dai

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

With the increase in the number of image data and the lack of corresponding labels, weakly supervised learning has drawn a lot of attention recently in computer vision tasks, especially in the fine-grained semantic segmentation problem. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Ke Zhang , Sihong Chen , Qi Ju , Yong Jiang , Yucong Li , Xin He

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) employs weak supervision, such as image-level labels, to train the segmentation model. Despite the impressive achievement in recent WSSS methods, we identify that introducing weak labels with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Junsung Park , Hyunjung Shim

Class Activation Mapping (CAM) methods are widely applied in weakly supervised learning tasks due to their ability to highlight object regions. However, conventional CAM methods highlight only the most discriminative regions of the target.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qingdong Cai , Charith Abhayaratne