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Current weakly-supervised incremental learning for semantic segmentation (WILSS) approaches only consider replacing pixel-level annotations with image-level labels, while the training images are still from well-designed datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chang Liu , Giulia Rizzoli , Pietro Zanuttigh , Fu Li , Yi Niu

Weak spectral responses in hyperspectral images are often obscured by dominant endmembers and sensor noise, resulting in inaccurate abundance estimation. This paper introduces WS-Net, a deep unmixing framework specifically designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zekun Long , Ali Zia , Guanyiman Fu , Vivien Rolland , Jun Zhou

Despite the remarkable progress, weakly supervised segmentation approaches are still inferior to their fully supervised counterparts. We obverse the performance gap mainly comes from their limitation on learning to produce high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yunchao Wei , Huaxin Xiao , Honghui Shi , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Thomas S. Huang

While fine-tuning pre-trained networks has become a popular way to train image segmentation models, such backbone networks for image segmentation are frequently pre-trained using image classification source datasets, e.g., ImageNet. Though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Xuhong Li , Haoyi Xiong , Yi Liu , Dingfu Zhou , Zeyu Chen , Yaqing Wang , Dejing Dou

Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for semantic segmentation typically requires to collect a large amount of accurate pixel-level annotations, a hard and expensive task. In contrast, simple image tags are easier to gather. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Carolina Redondo-Cabrera , Marcos Baptista-Ríos , Roberto J. López-Sastre

We propose to model complex visual scenes using a non-parametric Bayesian model learned from weakly labelled images abundant on media sharing sites such as Flickr. Given weak image-level annotations of objects and attributes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Zhiyuan Shi , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Ahmet Sencan , Orhun Bugra Baran , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning in medical imaging analysis, medical image segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality labeled images for supervision. Further, the significant domain gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hedda Cohen Indelman , Elay Dahan , Angeles M. Perez-Agosto , Carmit Shiran , Doron Shaked , Nati Daniel

In this paper, we develop a new weakly-supervised learning algorithm to learn to segment cancerous regions in histopathology images. Our work is under a multiple instance learning framework (MIL) with a new formulation, deep weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Zhipeng Jia , Xingyi Huang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

Semantic segmentation is a powerful method to facilitate visual scene understanding. Each pixel is assigned a label according to a pre-defined list of object classes and semantic entities. This becomes very useful as a means to summarize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Marc Bosch , Gordon A. Christie , Christopher M. Gifford

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) has great potential for medical imaging applications. Most of the existing FSS techniques require abundant annotated semantic classes for training. However, these methods may not be applicable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Cheng Ouyang , Carlo Biffi , Chen Chen , Turkay Kart , Huaqi Qiu , Daniel Rueckert

Human body part segmentation refers to the task of predicting the semantic segmentation mask for each body part. Fully supervised body part segmentation methods achieve good performances but require an enormous amount of effort to annotate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Zhengyuan Yang , Yuncheng Li , Linjie Yang , Ning Zhang , Jiebo Luo

Segmenting medical images is critical to facilitating both patient diagnoses and quantitative research. A major limiting factor is the lack of labeled data, as obtaining expert annotations for each new set of imaging data and task can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Chen Liu , Matthew Amodio , Liangbo L. Shen , Feng Gao , Arman Avesta , Sanjay Aneja , Jay C. Wang , Lucian V. Del Priore , Smita Krishnaswamy

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS), which focuses on segmenting new classes in images using only a limited number of annotated examples, has recently progressed in data-scarce domains. However, in this work, we show that the existing FSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhuohao Li , Zhicheng Huang , Wenchao Liu , Zhuxin Zhang , Jianming Miao

In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised semantic segmentation approach for food images which takes advantage of the zero-shot capabilities and promptability of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) along with the attention mechanisms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos , Anastasios Delopoulos

As one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision, semantic segmentation plays an important role in real world applications. Although numerous deep learning models have made notable progress on several mainstream datasets with the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Bin Zhang , Shengjie Zhao , Rongqing Zhang

Weakly supervised visual recognition using inexact supervision is a critical yet challenging learning problem. It significantly reduces human labeling costs and traditionally relies on multi-instance learning and pseudo-labeling. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lianghui Zhu , Junwei Zhou , Yan Liu , Xin Hao , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has long been suffering from fragmentary object regions led by Class Activation Map (CAM), which is incapable of generating fine-grained masks for semantic segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiren Mai , Fei Zhang , Junjie Ye , Marcus Kalander , Xian Zhang , WanKou Yang , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with only image-level labels saves large human effort to annotate pixel-level labels. Cutting-edge approaches rely on various innovative constraints and heuristic rules to generate the masks for every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan , Chunfeng Song , Jun Xiao

Fibrotic Lung Disease (FLD) is a severe condition marked by lung stiffening and scarring, leading to respiratory decline. High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is critical for diagnosing and monitoring FLD; however, fibrosis appears as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zhiling Yue , Yingying Fang , Liutao Yang , Nikhil Baid , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang