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In this paper, we propose an effective knowledge transfer framework to boost the weakly supervised object detection accuracy with the help of an external fully-annotated source dataset, whose categories may not overlap with the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yuanyi Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Jian Peng , Lei Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with tasks that require fine-grained image understanding, such as scene-text recognition or document analysis, due to perception limitations and visual fragmentation. To address these challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Miguel Carvalho , Helder Dias , Bruno Martins

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

Learning to ground natural language queries to target objects or regions in 3D point clouds is quite essential for 3D scene understanding. Nevertheless, existing 3D visual grounding approaches require a substantial number of bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiaoxu Xu , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Wenhui Wu , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Xu Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of weakly-supervised temporal grounding of sentence in video. Specifically, given an untrimmed video and a query sentence, our goal is to localize a temporal segment in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Peng Tang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Nowadays, there is an abundance of data involving images and surrounding free-form text weakly corresponding to those images. Weakly Supervised phrase-Grounding (WSG) deals with the task of using this data to learn to localize (or to…

We study the problem of weakly supervised grounded image captioning. That is, given an image, the goal is to automatically generate a sentence describing the context of the image with each noun word grounded to the corresponding region in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nenglun Chen , Xingjia Pan , Runnan Chen , Lei Yang , Zhiwen Lin , Yuqiang Ren , Haolei Yuan , Xiaowei Guo , Feiyue Huang , Wenping Wang

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a compelling tool for object detection by reducing the need for strong supervision during training. However, major challenges remain: (1) differentiation of object instances can be ambiguous; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhongzheng Ren , Zhiding Yu , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Yong Jae Lee , Alexander G. Schwing , Jan Kautz

We propose a weakly-supervised multi-view learning approach to learn category-specific surface mapping without dense annotations. We learn the underlying surface geometry of common categories, such as human faces, cars, and airplanes, given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Nishant Rai , Aidas Liaudanskas , Srinivas Rao , Rodrigo Ortiz Cayon , Matteo Munaro , Stefan Holzer

In this work, we focus on the task of weakly supervised affordance grounding, where a model is trained to identify affordance regions on objects using human-object interaction images and egocentric object images without dense labels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Peiran Xu , Yadong Mu

Recent works in self-supervised learning have shown impressive results on single-object images, but they struggle to perform well on complex multi-object images as evidenced by their poor visual grounding. To demonstrate this concretely, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Aishwarya Agarwal , Srikrishna Karanam , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Visual grounding, a crucial vision-language task involving the understanding of the visual context based on the query expression, necessitates the model to capture the interactions between objects, as well as various spatial and attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Haozhan Shen , Tiancheng Zhao , Mingwei Zhu , Jianwei Yin

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL), which aims to localize objects by only using image-level labels, has attracted much attention because of its low annotation cost in real applications. Recent studies leverage the advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haotian Bai , Ruimao Zhang , Jiong Wang , Xiang Wan

Transformer has been very successful in various computer vision tasks and understanding the working mechanism of transformer is important. As touchstones, weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) and class activation map (CAM) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Lianghui Zhu , Yingyue Li , Jiemin Fang , Yan Liu , Hao Xin , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of the common solutions exploit class activation map (CAM) to locate object regions. However, such response maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yukun Su , Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

The eye-tracking video saliency prediction (VSP) task and video salient object detection (VSOD) task both focus on the most attractive objects in video and show the result in the form of predictive heatmaps and pixel-level saliency masks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Qin , Runmin Cong , Gen Zhan , Yiting Liao , Sam Kwong

Weakly-supervised learning approaches have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the effort required for human annotations in training neural networks. This paper investigates a framework for weakly-supervised object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Byeongkeun Kang , Sinhae Cha , Yeejin Lee

Weakly supervised object detection aims at reducing the amount of supervision required to train detection models. Such models are traditionally learned from images/videos labelled only with the object class and not the object bounding box.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Zhenheng Yang , Dhruv Mahajan , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Ram Nevatia , Vignesh Ramanathan

Visual grounding (VG) aims to establish fine-grained alignment between vision and language. Ideally, it can be a testbed for vision-and-language models to evaluate their understanding of the images and texts and their reasoning abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhihong Chen , Ruifei Zhang , Yibing Song , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

Given a ground-level query image and a geo-referenced aerial image that covers the query's local surroundings, fine-grained cross-view localization aims to estimate the location of the ground camera inside the aerial image. Recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zimin Xia , Yujiao Shi , Hongdong Li , Julian F. P. Kooij