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We propose a weakly-supervised framework for the semantic segmentation of circular-scan synthetic-aperture-sonar (CSAS) imagery. The first part of our framework is trained in a supervised manner, on image-level labels, to uncover a set of…

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) for medical image segmentation is a challenging yet highly practical task, which reduces reliance on large-scale labeled dataset by leveraging unlabeled samples. Among SSL techniques, the weak-to-strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shiao Xie , Hongyi Wang , Ziwei Niu , Hao Sun , Shuyi Ouyang , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

The field of medical image segmentation is hindered by the scarcity of large, publicly available annotated datasets. Not all datasets are made public for privacy reasons, and creating annotations for a large dataset is time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Iira Häkkinen , Iaroslav Melekhov , Erik Englesson , Hossein Azizpour , Juho Kannala

This work proposes a novel approach beyond supervised learning for effective pathological image analysis, addressing the challenge of limited robust labeled data. Pathological diagnosis of diseases like cancer has conventionally relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Joohyeok Kim , Sangmin Lee

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

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Accurate identification of breast masses is crucial in diagnosing breast cancer; however, it can be challenging due to their small size and being camouflaged in surrounding normal glands. Worse still, it is also expensive in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xinyu Xiong , Churan Wang , Wenxue Li , Guanbin Li

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have proven effective in solving the task of semantic segmentation. However, their efficiency heavily relies on the pixel-level annotations that are expensive to get and often require domain expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Ostap Viniavskyi , Mariia Dobko , Oles Dobosevych

The costly process of obtaining semantic segmentation labels has driven research towards weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods, using only image-level, point, or box labels. The lack of dense scene representation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Peri Akiva , Kristin Dana

Image segmentation is important in medical imaging, providing valuable, quantitative information for clinical decision-making in diagnosis, therapy, and intervention. The state-of-the-art in automated segmentation remains supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Margherita Rosnati , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Miguel Monteiro , Daniel Coelho de Castro , Ben Glocker

Accurate segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, the labor-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation limits the scalability of supervised learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiaqi Yang , Nitish Mehta , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

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

Few-shot semantic segmentation addresses the learning task in which only few images with ground truth pixel-level labels are available for the novel classes of interest. One is typically required to collect a large mount of data (i.e., base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yuan-Hao Lee , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

Autonomous robotic systems applied to new domains require an abundance of expensive, pixel-level dense labels to train robust semantic segmentation models under full supervision. This study proposes a model-agnostic Depth Edge Alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Vasileios Belagiannis , Lazaros Nalpantidis

Accurate segmentation of the fetal brain from Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) is important for prenatal assessment of fetal development. Although deep learning has shown the potential to achieve this task, it requires a large fine annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jia Fu , Tao Lu , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

The ability to understand visual information from limited labeled data is an important aspect of machine learning. While image-level classification has been extensively studied in a semi-supervised setting, dense pixel-level classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sudhanshu Mittal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Thomas Brox

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