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Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) is introduced to narrow the gap for semantic segmentation performance from pixel-level supervision to image-level supervision. Most advanced approaches are based on class activation maps (CAMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Sanghyun Jo , In-Jae Yu

Weakly supervised learning aims at coping with scarce labeled data. Previous weakly supervised studies typically assume that there is only one kind of weak supervision in data. In many applications, however, raw data usually contains more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Lan-Zhe Guo , Feng Kuang , Zhang-Xun Liu , Yu-Feng Li , Nan Ma , Xiao-Hu Qie

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

It is generally accepted that one of the critical parts of current vision algorithms based on deep learning and convolutional neural networks is the annotation of a sufficient number of images to achieve competitive performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Kai Yao , Alberto Ortiz , Francisco Bonnin-Pascual

Point clouds provide intrinsic geometric information and surface context for scene understanding. Existing methods for point cloud segmentation require a large amount of fully labeled data. Using advanced depth sensors, collection of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jiacheng Wei , Guosheng Lin , Kim-Hui Yap , Tzu-Yi Hung , Lihua Xie

3D instance segmentation methods often require fully-annotated dense labels for training, which are costly to obtain. In this paper, we present ClickSeg, a novel click-level weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation method that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Leyao Liu , Tao Kong , Minzhao Zhu , Jiashuo Fan , Lu Fang

Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

A significant bottleneck in training deep networks for part segmentation is the cost of obtaining detailed annotations. We propose a framework to exploit coarse labels such as figure-ground masks and keypoint locations that are readily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Oindrila Saha , Zezhou Cheng , Subhransu Maji

Deep learning has significantly improved the precision of instance segmentation with abundant labeled data. However, in many areas like medical and manufacturing, collecting sufficient data is extremely hard and labeling this data requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Ye Zheng , Jiahong Wu , Yongqiang Qin , Faen Zhang , Li Cui

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

This paper addresses semi-supervised semantic segmentation by exploiting a small set of images with pixel-level annotations (strong supervisions) and a large set of images with only image-level annotations (weak supervisions). Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Rumeng Yi , Yaping Huang , Qingji Guan , Mengyang Pu , Runsheng Zhang

We propose a weakly supervised semantic segmentation method for point clouds that predicts "per-point" labels from just "whole-scene" annotations. The key challenge here is the discrepancy between the target of dense per-point semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shaobo Xia , Jun Yue , Kacper Kania , Leyuan Fang , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi , Weiwei Sun

In Multiple Instance learning (MIL), weak labels are provided at the bag level with only presence/absence information known. However, there is a considerable gap in performance in comparison to a fully supervised model, limiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Anxiang Zhang , Ankit Shah , Bhiksha Raj

Instance segmentation in videos, which aims to segment and track multiple objects in video frames, has garnered a flurry of research attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a novel weakly supervised framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Jingang Wang , Changbin Yu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated exceptional performance and versatility, making it a promising tool for various related tasks. In this report, we explore the application of SAM in Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Weixuan Sun , Zheyuan Liu , Yanhao Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes

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

In many machine learning applications, labeling datasets can be an arduous and time-consuming task. Although research has shown that semi-supervised learning techniques can achieve high accuracy with very few labels within the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Evelyn J. Mannix , Howard D. Bondell

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

Despite the availability of large datasets for tasks like image classification and image-text alignment, labeled data for more complex recognition tasks, such as detection and segmentation, is less abundant. In particular, for instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 François Porcher , Camille Couprie , Marc Szafraniec , Jakob Verbeek

Lesion segmentation in medical imaging serves as an effective tool for assessing tumor sizes and monitoring changes in growth. However, not only is manual lesion segmentation time-consuming, but it is also expensive and requires expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Vatsal Agarwal , Youbao Tang , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers