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Obtaining object response maps is one important step to achieve weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using image-level labels. However, existing methods rely on the classification task, which could result in a response map only attending…

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 pixel-wise dense prediction tasks based on weakly supervisions currently use Class Attention Maps (CAM) to generate pseudo masks as ground-truth. However, the existing methods typically depend on the painstaking training modules, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

Surgical image segmentation is essential for robot-assisted surgery and intraoperative guidance. However, existing methods are constrained to predefined categories, produce one-shot predictions without adaptive refinement, and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ange Lou , Yamin Li , Qi Chang , Nan Xi , Luyuan Xie , Zichao Li , Tianyu Luan

Autonomous robotic systems applied to new domains require an abundance of expensive, pixel-level dense labels to train robust semantic segmentation models under full supervision. This study proposes a model-agnostic Depth Edge Alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Vasileios Belagiannis , Lazaros Nalpantidis

Tissue-level semantic segmentation is a vital step in computational pathology. Fully-supervised models have already achieved outstanding performance with dense pixel-level annotations. However, drawing such labels on the giga-pixel whole…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Chu Han , Jiatai Lin , Jinhai Mai , Yi Wang , Qingling Zhang , Bingchao Zhao , Xin Chen , Xipeng Pan , Zhenwei Shi , Xiaowei Xu , Su Yao , Lixu Yan , Huan Lin , Zeyan Xu , Xiaomei Huang , Guoqiang Han , Changhong Liang , Zaiyi Liu

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation produces pixel-level localization from class labels; however, a classifier trained on such labels is likely to focus on a small discriminative region of the target object. We interpret this phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Jungbeom Lee , Jooyoung Choi , Jisoo Mok , Sungroh Yoon

Incremental learning of semantic segmentation has emerged as a promising strategy for visual scene interpretation in the open- world setting. However, it remains challenging to acquire novel classes in an online fashion for the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shipeng Yan , Jiale Zhou , Jiangwei Xie , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

Weakly supervised nuclei segmentation is a critical problem for pathological image analysis and greatly benefits the community due to the significant reduction of labeling cost. Adopting point annotations, previous methods mostly rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Weizhen Liu , Qian He , Xuming He

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment unseen class objects with the guidance of only a few support images. Most previous methods rely on the pixel-level label of support images. In this paper, we focus on a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haohan Wang , Liang Liu , Wuhao Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Haoqian Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) must learn dense masks from noisy, under-specified cues. We revisit the SegFormer decoder and show that three small, synergistic changes make weak supervision markedly more effective-without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ali Torabi , Sanjog Gaihre , Yaqoob Majeed

Weakly supervised landslide extraction aims to identify landslide regions from remote sensing data using models trained with weak labels, particularly image-level labels. However, it is often challenged by the imprecise boundaries of the…

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Robot-assisted catheterization has garnered a good attention for its potentials in treating cardiovascular diseases. However, advancing surgeon-robot collaboration still requires further research, particularly on task-specific automation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Olatunji Mumini Omisore , Toluwanimi Akinyemi , Anh Nguyen , Lei Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with only image-level labels aims to reduce annotation costs for the segmentation task. Existing approaches generally leverage class activation maps (CAMs) to locate the object regions for pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tao Chen , Yazhou Yao , Lei Zhang , Qiong Wang , Guo-Sen Xie , Fumin Shen

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at generating precise object masks from input prompts but lacks semantic awareness, failing to associate its generated masks with specific object categories. To address this limitation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rohit Kundu , Sudipta Paul , Arindam Dutta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) research has explored many directions to improve the typical pipeline CNN plus class activation maps (CAM) plus refinements, given the image-class label as the only supervision. Though the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Simone Rossetti , Damiano Zappia , Marta Sanzari , Marco Schaerf , Fiora Pirri

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has recently attracted considerable attention because it requires fewer annotations than fully supervised approaches, making it especially promising for large-scale image segmentation tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Lechao Cheng , Zerun Liu , Jingxuan He , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Meng Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels intends to achieve dense tasks without laborious annotations. However, due to the ambiguous contexts and fuzzy regions, the performance of WSSS, especially the stages of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhiwei Yang , Yucong Meng , Kexue Fu , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

Achieving high-quality semantic segmentation predictions using only image-level labels enables a new level of real-world applicability. Although state-of-the-art networks deliver reliable predictions, the amount of handcrafted pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Erik Ostrowski , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Muhammad Shafique

High-resolution hyperspectral images (HSIs) contain the response of each pixel in different spectral bands, which can be used to effectively distinguish various objects in complex scenes. While HSI cameras have become low cost, algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Yuxing Huang , Shaodi You , Ying Fu , Qiu Shen

In recent years, few-shot segmentation (FSS) models have emerged as a promising approach in medical imaging analysis, offering remarkable adaptability to segment novel classes with limited annotated data. Existing approaches to few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mohammad Mozafari , Hosein Hasani , Reza Vahidimajd , Mohamadreza Fereydooni , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah