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Obtaining human per-pixel labels for semantic segmentation is incredibly laborious, often making labeled dataset construction prohibitively expensive. Here, we endeavor to overcome this problem with a novel algorithm that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

Semi-supervised instance segmentation poses challenges due to limited labeled data, causing difficulties in accurately localizing distinct object instances. Current teacher-student frameworks still suffer from performance constraints due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Heeji Yoon , Heeseong Shin , Eunbeen Hong , Hyunwook Choi , Hansang Cho , Daun Jeong , Seungryong Kim

Semantic segmentation is essential for automating remote sensing analysis in fields like ecology. However, fine-grained analysis of complex aerial or underwater imagery remains an open challenge, even for state-of-the-art models. Progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Cesar Borja , Carlos Plou , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Ana C. Murillo

Dataset augmentation, the practice of applying a wide array of domain-specific transformations to synthetically expand a training set, is a standard tool in supervised learning. While effective in tasks such as visual recognition, the set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-21 Terrance DeVries , Graham W. Taylor

Data augmentation is commonly used to encode invariances in learning methods. However, this process is often performed in an inefficient manner, as artificial examples are created by applying a number of transformations to all points in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Michael Kuchnik , Virginia Smith

Supervised deep learning methods for semantic medical image segmentation are getting increasingly popular in the past few years.However, in resource constrained settings, getting large number of annotated images is very difficult as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Pratima Upretee , Bishesh Khanal

Accurate semantic segmentation models typically require significant computational resources, inhibiting their use in practical applications. Recent works rely on well-crafted lightweight models to achieve fast inference. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Danna Xue , Fei Yang , Pei Wang , Luis Herranz , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , Yanning Zhang

We present FasterSeg, an automatically designed semantic segmentation network with not only state-of-the-art performance but also faster speed than current methods. Utilizing neural architecture search (NAS), FasterSeg is discovered from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Xianming Liu , Qian Zhang , Yuan Li , Zhangyang Wang

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

In this work, we propose a simple yet effective semi-supervised learning approach called Augmented Distribution Alignment. We reveal that an essential sampling bias exists in semi-supervised learning due to the limited number of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Qin Wang , Wen Li , Luc Van Gool

Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion models, have made generating high-quality synthetic images widely accessible. Prior works have shown that training on synthetic images improves many perception tasks, such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Jacob Schnell , Jieke Wang , Lu Qi , Vincent Tao Hu , Meng Tang

Data-driven based approaches, in spite of great success in many tasks, have poor generalization when applied to unseen image domains, and require expensive cost of annotation especially for dense pixel prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Shuaijun Chen , Xu Jia , Jianzhong He , Yongjie Shi , Jianzhuang Liu

Empowered by large datasets, e.g., ImageNet, unsupervised learning on large-scale data has enabled significant advances for classification tasks. However, whether the large-scale unsupervised semantic segmentation can be achieved remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Shanghua Gao , Zhong-Yu Li , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Junwei Han , Philip Torr

Consistency regularization describes a class of approaches that have yielded ground breaking results in semi-supervised classification problems. Prior work has established the cluster assumption - under which the data distribution consists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Geoff French , Samuli Laine , Timo Aila , Michal Mackiewicz , Graham Finlayson

In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limits the quantity of labels available for training in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Tarun Kalluri , Girish Varma , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

Sound event detection is a core module for acoustic environmental analysis. Semi-supervised learning technique allows to largely scale up the dataset without increasing the annotation budget, and recently attracts lots of research…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Xiaofei Li

Semantic segmentation has been widely investigated in the community, in which the state of the art techniques are based on supervised models. Those models have reported unprecedented performance at the cost of requiring a large set of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Rihuan Ke , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Saurabh Pandey , Saikumar Reddy , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Semi-weakly supervised semantic segmentation (SWSSS) aims to train a model to identify objects in images based on a small number of images with pixel-level labels, and many more images with only image-level labels. Most existing SWSSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wonho Bae , Junhyug Noh , Milad Jalali Asadabadi , Danica J. Sutherland

Self-supervised contrastive learning is among the recent representation learning methods that have shown performance gains in several downstream tasks including semantic segmentation. This paper evaluates strong data augmentation, one of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Azeez Idris , Abdurahman Ali Mohammed , Samuel Fanijo

A common challenge posed to robust semantic segmentation is the expensive data annotation cost. Existing semi-supervised solutions show great potential for solving this problem. Their key idea is constructing consistency regularization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Cong Cao , Tianwei Lin , Dongliang He , Fu Li , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang , Errui Ding