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Unlike fully supervised semantic segmentation, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on weaker forms of supervision to perform dense prediction tasks. Among the various types of weak supervision, WSSS with image level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Wang Zhang

Weakly supervised nuclei segmentation is a critical problem for pathological image analysis and greatly benefits the community due to the significant reduction of labeling cost. Adopting point annotations, previous methods mostly rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Weizhen Liu , Qian He , Xuming He

In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

State-of-the-art techniques in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels exhibit severe performance degradation on driving scene datasets such as Cityscapes. To address this challenge, we develop a new WSSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Dongseob Kim , Seungho Lee , Junsuk Choe , Hyunjung Shim

Most weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods follow the pipeline that generates pseudo-masks initially and trains the segmentation model with the pseudo-masks in fully supervised manner after. However, we find some matters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yi Li , Zhanghui Kuang , Liyang Liu , Yimin Chen , Wayne Zhang

This paper presents a novel approach for learning instance segmentation with image-level class labels as supervision. Our approach generates pseudo instance segmentation labels of training images, which are used to train a fully supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jiwoon Ahn , Sunghyun Cho , Suha Kwak

Modern incremental learning for semantic segmentation methods usually learn new categories based on dense annotations. Although achieve promising results, pixel-by-pixel labeling is costly and time-consuming. Weakly incremental learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Chaohui Yu , Qiang Zhou , Jingliang Li , Jianlong Yuan , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

We introduce the problem of weakly supervised Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation, i.e. joint weakly supervised instance segmentation and multi-object tracking, in which we do not provide any kind of mask annotation. To address it, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Idoia Ruiz , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota Bulò , Peter Kontschieder , Joan Serrat

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

Weakly supervised instance segmentation reduces the cost of annotations required to train models. However, existing approaches which rely only on image-level class labels predominantly suffer from errors due to (a) partial segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Qing Liu , Vignesh Ramanathan , Dhruv Mahajan , Alan Yuille , Zhenheng Yang

Methods that move towards less supervised scenarios are key for image segmentation, as dense labels demand significant human intervention. Generally, the annotation burden is mitigated by labeling datasets with weaker forms of supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Image-level weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) reduces the usually vast data annotation cost by surrogate segmentation masks during training. The typical approach involves training an image classification network using global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Arvi Jonnarth , Yushan Zhang , Michael Felsberg

Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentations depend on two components: (i) a pseudo label generation model that provides instances which are consistent with a given annotation; and (ii) an instance segmentation model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Aditya Arun , C. V. Jawahar , M. Pawan Kumar

Due to the few annotated labels of 3D point clouds, how to learn discriminative features of point clouds to segment object instances is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective 3D instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Linghua Tang , Le Hui , Jin Xie

Weakly-supervised image segmentation (WSIS) is a critical task in computer vision that relies on image-level class labels. Multi-stage training procedures have been widely used in existing WSIS approaches to obtain high-quality pseudo-masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chunyan Wang , Dong Zhang , Rui Yan

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to bypass the need for laborious pixel-level annotation by using only image-level annotation. Most existing methods rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) to derive pixel-level pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tianle Chen , Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Wei-lun Chao

How to extract instance-level masks without instance-level supervision is the main challenge of weakly supervised instance segmentation (WSIS). Popular WSIS methods estimate a displacement field (DF) via learning inter-pixel relations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Tengbo Wang , Yu Bai

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

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