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We propose a new fast fully unsupervised method to discover semantic patterns. Our algorithm is able to hierarchically find visual categories and produce a segmentation mask where previous methods fail. Through the modeling of what is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Francesco Pelosin , Andrea Gasparetto , Andrea Albarelli , Andrea Torsello

Pixel-level vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, require extensive and high-quality annotated data, which is costly to obtain. Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) has emerged as a solution to alleviate the labeling burden…

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Unsupervised image translation aims to learn the transformation from a source domain to another target domain given unpaired training data. Several state-of-the-art works have yielded impressive results in the GANs-based unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Taewon Kang , Kwang Hee Lee

Semantic segmentation has made tremendous progress in recent years. However, satisfying performance highly depends on a large number of pixel-level annotations. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the semi-supervised segmentation problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Li Jiang , Shu Liu , Hengshuang Zhao , Liwei Wang , Jiaya Jia

Unsupervised image retrieval aims to learn an efficient retrieval system without expensive data annotations, but most existing methods rely heavily on handcrafted feature descriptors or pre-trained feature extractors. To minimize human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Guile Wu , Chao Zhang , Stephan Liwicki

Video summarization is a crucial technique for social understanding, enabling efficient browsing of massive multimedia content and extraction of key information from social platforms. Most existing unsupervised summarization methods rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Haizhou Liu , Haodong Jin , Yiming Wang , Hui Yu

This paper presents a semi-supervised learning framework for a customized semantic segmentation task using multiview image streams. A key challenge of the customized task lies in the limited accessibility of the labeled data due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yuan Yao , Hyun Soo Park

Semantic segmentation is critical for scene understanding but demands costly pixel-wise annotations, attracting increasing attention to semi-supervised approaches to leverage abundant unlabeled data. While semi-supervised segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Steven Landgraf , Markus Hillemann , Markus Ulrich

Semi-supervised learning is a challenging problem which aims to construct a model by learning from a limited number of labeled examples. Numerous methods have been proposed to tackle this problem, with most focusing on utilizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Peng Tu , Yawen Huang , Rongrong Ji , Feng Zheng , Ling Shao

In this paper, we tackle the unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation, which aims to segment the unlabeled real data using labeled synthetic data. The main problem of UDA for semantic segmentation relies on reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Suhyeon Lee , Junhyuk Hyun , Hongje Seong , Euntai Kim

Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (S4) aims to train a segmentation model with limited labeled images and a substantial volume of unlabeled images. To improve the robustness of representations, powerful methods introduce a pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Changqi Wang , Haoyu Xie , Yuhui Yuan , Chong Fu , Xiangyu Yue

Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation (UVOS) aims to predict pixel-level masks for the most salient objects in videos without any prior annotations. While memory mechanisms have been proven critical in various video segmentation paradigms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Zheng Xiangyu , He Songcheng , Li Wanyun , Li Xiaoqiang , Zhang Wei

New intent discovery is of great value to natural language processing, allowing for a better understanding of user needs and providing friendly services. However, most existing methods struggle to capture the complicated semantics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Xin Wang , Fei Long , Kai Gao

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation has attracted much attention in recent years because of the high cost of medical image annotations. In this paper, we propose a novel Inherent Consistent Learning (ICL) method, aims to learn robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Ye Zhu , Jie Yang , Si-Qi Liu , Ruimao Zhang

Traditionally, algorithms that learn to segment object instances in 2D images have heavily relied on large amounts of human-annotated data. Only recently, novel approaches have emerged tackling this problem in an unsupervised fashion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

In this paper, we present and study a new image segmentation task, called Generalized Open-set Semantic Segmentation (GOSS). Previously, with the well-known open-set semantic segmentation (OSS), the intelligent agent only detects the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jie Hong , Weihao Li , Junlin Han , Jiyang Zheng , Pengfei Fang , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

We present a novel approach to unsupervised learning for video object segmentation (VOS). Unlike previous work, our formulation allows to learn dense feature representations directly in a fully convolutional regime. We rely on uniform grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation aims to learn from a small amount of labeled data and plenty of unlabeled ones for the segmentation task. The most common approach is to generate pseudo-labels for unlabeled images to augment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Rui Chen , Tao Chen , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao