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We have witnessed remarkable progress in foundation models in vision tasks. Currently, several recent works have utilized the segmenting anything model (SAM) to boost the segmentation performance in medical images, where most of them focus…

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The recent emerged weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) methods can learn to localize an object in the image only using image-level labels. Previous works endeavor to perceive the interval objects from the small and sparse…

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We propose Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning (WSCL), a learning strategy leveraging Complementary Learning System theory and the wake-sleep phases of the human brain to improve the performance of deep neural networks for visual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Amelia Sorrenti , Giovanni Bellitto , Federica Proietto Salanitri , Matteo Pennisi , Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for medical image segmentation, reducing the reliance on extensive expert annotations. Meanwhile, vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong generalization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaqi Guo , Mingzhen Li , Hanyu Su , Santiago López , Lexiaozi Fan , Daniel Kim , Aggelos Katsaggelos

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities in broad knowledge representation, yet they are inherently deficient in pixel-level perceptual understanding. Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hao Wang , Limeng Qiao , Zequn Jie , Zhijian Huang , Chengjian Feng , Qingfang Zheng , Lin Ma , Xiangyuan Lan , Xiaodan Liang

Thanks to the advantages of the friendly annotations and the satisfactory performance, Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) approaches have been extensively studied. Recently, the single-stage WSSS was awakened to alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Chunyan Wang , Dong Zhang , Liyan Zhang , Jinhui Tang

Leveraging spatiotemporal information in videos is critical for weakly supervised video object localization (WSVOL) tasks. However, state-of-the-art methods only rely on visual and motion cues, while discarding discriminative information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Soufiane Belharbi , Shakeeb Murtaza , Marco Pedersoli , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

The challenge of fine-grained visual recognition often lies in discovering the key discriminative regions. While such regions can be automatically identified from a large-scale labeled dataset, a similar method might become less effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yangyang Shu , Baosheng Yu , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) relying only on image-level supervision is a promising approach to deal with the need for Segmentation networks, especially for generating a large number of pixel-wise masks in a given dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Erik Ostrowski , Muhammad Shafique

The success of supervised deep learning models in medical image segmentation relies on detailed annotations. However, labor-intensive manual labeling is costly and inefficient, especially in dense object segmentation. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Pingyi Chen , Chenglu Zhu , Zhongyi Shui , Jiatong Cai , Sunyi Zheng , Shichuan Zhang , Lin Yang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using image-level labels. Existing methods typically entangle semantic recognition and object localization, which often leads models to focus exclusively on…

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Though image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has achieved great progress with Class Activation Maps (CAMs) as the cornerstone, the large supervision gap between classification and segmentation still hampers the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ye Du , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Weakly supervised landslide extraction aims to identify landslide regions from remote sensing data using models trained with weak labels, particularly image-level labels. However, it is often challenged by the imprecise boundaries of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jian Wang , Xiaokang Zhang , Xianping Ma , Weikang Yu , Pedram Ghamisi

In semi-supervised semantic segmentation, a model is trained with a limited number of labeled images along with a large corpus of unlabeled images to reduce the high annotation effort. While previous methods are able to learn good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Lukas Hoyer , David Joseph Tan , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Tissue semantic segmentation is one of the key tasks in computational pathology. To avoid the expensive and laborious acquisition of pixel-level annotations, a wide range of studies attempt to adopt the class activation map (CAM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zijie Fang , Yifeng Wang , Peizhang Xie , Zhi Wang , Yongbing Zhang

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels typically uses Class Activation Maps (CAM) to achieve dense predictions. Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has provided an alternative to generate localization maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Zhiwei Yang , Yucong Meng , Kexue Fu , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

Previous weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) methods aim to expand activation map discriminative areas to cover the whole objects, yet neglect two inherent challenges when relying solely on image-level labels. First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Fei Gao , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

Traditional supervised 3D medical image segmentation models need voxel-level annotations, which require huge human effort, time, and cost. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses this limitation of supervised learning by facilitating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Suruchi Kumari , Aryan Das , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Indu Joshi , Pravendra Singh

Malicious image manipulation poses societal risks, increasing the importance of effective image manipulation detection methods. Recent approaches in image manipulation detection have largely been driven by fully supervised approaches, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xinghao Wang , Tao Gong , Qi Chu , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

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…

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