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As machine learning models continue to increase in complexity, collecting large hand-labeled training sets has become one of the biggest roadblocks in practice. Instead, weaker forms of supervision that provide noisier but cheaper labels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Alexander Ratner , Braden Hancock , Jared Dunnmon , Frederic Sala , Shreyash Pandey , Christopher Ré

Due to the high cost of annotating accurate pixel-level labels, semi-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach for cloud detection. In this paper, we propose CloudMatch, a semi-supervised framework that effectively leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jiayi Zhao , Changlu Chen , Jingsheng Li , Tianxiang Xue , Kun Zhan

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

Pretraining on large labeled datasets is a prerequisite to achieve good performance in many computer vision tasks like 2D object recognition, video classification etc. However, pretraining is not widely used for 3D recognition tasks where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Zaiwei Zhang , Rohit Girdhar , Armand Joulin , Ishan Misra

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

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods leverage unlabeled data by pseudo-labeling them. Thus the success of these methods hinges on the reliablility of the pseudo-labels. Existing methods mostly choose high-confidence pixels in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Prantik Howlader , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

We propose a fully automatic annotation scheme that takes a raw 3D point cloud with a set of fitted CAD models as input and outputs convincing point-wise labels that can be used as cheap training data for point cloud segmentation. Compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Galadrielle Humblot-Renaux , Simon Buus Jensen , Andreas Møgelmose

We consider weakly supervised segmentation where only a fraction of pixels have ground truth labels (scribbles) and focus on a self-labeling approach optimizing relaxations of the standard unsupervised CRF/Potts loss on unlabeled pixels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhongwen Zhang , Yuri Boykov

Weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation is essential for 3D scene understanding, especially as the growing scale of data and high annotation costs associated with fully supervised approaches. Existing methods primarily rely on two forms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Xu Wang

Deep neural networks usually require accurate and a large number of annotations to achieve outstanding performance in medical image segmentation. One-shot segmentation and weakly-supervised learning are promising research directions that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Wenhui Lei , Qi Su , Ran Gu , Na Wang , Xinglong Liu , Guotai Wang , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

Point clouds upsampling is a challenging issue to generate dense and uniform point clouds from the given sparse input. Most existing methods either take the end-to-end supervised learning based manner, where large amounts of pairs of sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Zhiwei Zhong , Junjun Jiang , Wei Gao , Ge Li , Xiangyang Ji

In this work, we propose to learn local descriptors for point clouds in a self-supervised manner. In each iteration of the training, the input of the network is merely one unlabeled point cloud. On top of our previous work, that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yijun Yuan , Jiawei Hou , Andreas Nüchter , Sören Schwertfeger

Detailed structural and species information on individual tree level is increasingly important to support precision forestry, biodiversity conservation, and provide reference data for biomass and carbon mapping. Point clouds from airborne…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Aldino Rizaldy , Fabian Ewald Fassnacht , Ahmed Jamal Afifi , Hua Jiang , Richard Gloaguen , Pedram Ghamisi

Most existing point cloud instance and semantic segmentation methods rely heavily on strong supervision signals, which require point-level labels for every point in the scene. However, such strong supervision suffers from large annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 An Tao , Yueqi Duan , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Current state-of-the-art point cloud-based perception methods usually rely on large-scale labeled data, which requires expensive manual annotations. A natural option is to explore the unsupervised methodology for 3D perception tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jingyu Zhang , Huitong Yang , Dai-Jie Wu , Jacky Keung , Xuesong Li , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Establishing dense correspondences across semantically similar images remains a challenging task due to the significant intra-class variations and background clutters. Traditionally, a supervised learning was used for training the models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiwon Kim , Kwangrok Ryoo , Junyoung Seo , Gyuseong Lee , Daehwan Kim , Hansang Cho , Seungryong Kim

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D. Despite recent progress on point cloud segmentation with the power of deep networks, current learning methods based on the clean label assumptions may fail with noisy labels. Yet, class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Shuquan Ye , Dongdong Chen , Songfang Han , Jing Liao

In the context of noisy partial label learning (NPLL), each training sample is associated with a set of candidate labels annotated by multiple noisy annotators. With the emergence of high-performance pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Qian-Wei Wang , Yaguang Song , Shu-Tao Xia

This paper proposes a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation method using image-level label only. The class-specific activation maps from the well-trained classifiers are used as cues to train a segmentation network. The well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Ting Sun , Lei Tai , Zhihan Gao , Ming Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

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