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Weakly supervised instance segmentation using only bounding box annotations has recently attracted much research attention. Most of the current efforts leverage low-level image features as extra supervision without explicitly exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Ruihuang Li , Chenhang He , Yabin Zhang , Shuai Li , Liyi Chen , Lei Zhang

Image segmentation is a fundamental vision task and a crucial step for many applications. In this paper, we propose a fast image segmentation method based on a novel super boundary-to-pixel direction (super-BPD) and a customized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Jianqiang Wan , Yang Liu , Donglai Wei , Xiang Bai , Yongchao Xu

Cell segmentation in histopathological images is vital for diagnosis, and treatment of several diseases. Annotating data is tedious, and requires medical expertise, making it difficult to employ supervised learning. Instead, we study a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Aayush Kumar Tyagi , Vaibhav Mishra , Prathosh A. P. , Mausam

Building a large image dataset with high-quality object masks for semantic segmentation is costly and time consuming. In this paper, we introduce a principled semi-supervised framework that only uses a small set of fully supervised images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Mostafa S. Ibrahim , Arash Vahdat , Mani Ranjbar , William G. Macready

Compared to conventional semantic segmentation with pixel-level supervision, Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels poses the challenge that it always focuses on the most discriminative regions, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jingxuan He , Lechao Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Zunlei Feng , Tingting Mu , Mingli Song

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects with only image-level labels. Previous methods often try to utilize feature maps and classification weights to localize objects using image level annotations indirectly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Chen-Lin Zhang , Yun-Hao Cao , Jianxin Wu

We address the problem of weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using bounding box annotations. Although object bounding boxes are good indicators to segment corresponding objects, they do not specify object boundaries, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Youngmin Oh , Beomjun Kim , Bumsub Ham

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Accurate segmentation of polyps and skin lesions is essential for diagnosing colorectal and skin cancers. While various segmentation methods for polyps and skin lesions using fully supervised deep learning techniques have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Encheng Su , Hu Cao , Alois Knoll

Deep learning for detecting objects in remotely sensed imagery can enable new technologies for important applications including mitigating climate change. However, these models often require large datasets labeled with bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Ji Hun Wang , Jeremy Irvin , Beri Kohen Behar , Ha Tran , Raghav Samavedam , Quentin Hsu , Andrew Y. Ng

As an essential indicator for cancer progression and treatment response, tumor size is often measured following the response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) guideline in CT slices. By marking each lesion with its longest axis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Lianyu Zhou , Dong Wei , Donghuan Lu , Wei Xue , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) enables the training of object detection models using only image-level annotations. State-of-the-art WSOD detectors commonly rely on multi-instance learning (MIL) as the backbone of their detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhaofei Wang , Weijia Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang

Nodule segmentation from breast ultrasound images is challenging yet essential for the diagnosis. Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) can help reduce time-consuming and cumbersome manual annotation. Unlike existing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Yuxin Zou , Chaoyu Chen , Jian Wang , Haoran Dou , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Jianqiao Zhou , Dong Ni

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation has witnessed great achievements with image-level labels. Several recent approaches use the CLIP model to generate pseudo labels for training an individual segmentation model, while there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Bingfeng Zhang , Siyue Yu , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao , Jimin Xiao

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

Rapid growth in the field of quantitative digital image analysis is paving the way for researchers to make precise measurements about objects in an image. To compute quantities from the image such as the density of compressed materials or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Marylesa Howard , Margaret C. Hock , B. T. Meehan , Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper

Instance segmentation is a fundamental research in computer vision, especially in autonomous driving. However, manual mask annotation for instance segmentation is quite time-consuming and costly. To address this problem, some prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuzhi Wu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Multimodal learning leverages complementary information derived from different modalities, thereby enhancing performance in medical image segmentation. However, prevailing multimodal learning methods heavily rely on extensive well-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xiaogen Zhou , Yiyou Sun , Min Deng , Winnie Chiu Wing Chu , Qi Dou

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has become the predominant approach for classification tasks on gigapixel histopathology whole slide images (WSIs). Within the MIL framework, single WSIs (bags) are decomposed into patches (instances), with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Daniel Sens , Ario Sadafi , Francesco Paolo Casale , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr