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Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL), which aims to localize objects by only using image-level labels, has attracted much attention because of its low annotation cost in real applications. Current studies focus on the Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xi Yang , Songsong Duan , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Conventional open-world object detection (OWOD) problem setting first distinguishes known and unknown classes and then later incrementally learns the unknown objects when introduced with labels in the subsequent tasks. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abhishek Singh Gehlot , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Hisham Cholakkal

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is a challenging task aiming to localize objects with only image-level supervision. Recent works apply visual transformer to WSOL and achieve significant success by exploiting the long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Pingyu Wu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha

Weakly-Supervised Concealed Object Segmentation (WSCOS) aims to segment objects well blended with surrounding environments using sparsely-annotated data for model training. It remains a challenging task since (1) it is hard to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Guoxia Xu , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Object detection (OD), a crucial vision task, remains challenged by the lack of large training datasets with precise object localization labels. In this work, we propose ALWOD, a new framework that addresses this problem by fusing active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yuting Wang , Velibor Ilic , Jiatong Li , Branislav Kisacanin , Vladimir Pavlovic

The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize the target object using only the image-level supervision. Recent methods encourage the model to activate feature maps over the entire object by dropping the most discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Minsong Ki , Youngjung Uh , Wonyoung Lee , Hyeran Byun

Weakly-supervised object detection attempts to limit the amount of supervision by dispensing the need for bounding boxes, but still assumes image-level labels on the entire training set. In this work, we study the problem of training an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Zhaohui Yang , Miaojing Shi , Chao Xu , Vittorio Ferrari , Yannis Avrithis

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD), where a detector is trained with only image-level annotations, is attracting more and more attention. As a method to obtain a well-performing detector, the detector and the instance labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Different from general object detection, moving infrared small target detection faces huge challenges due to tiny target size and weak background contrast.Currently, most existing methods are fully-supervised, heavily relying on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weiwei Duan , Luping Ji , Shengjia Chen , Sicheng Zhu , Jianghong Huang , Mao Ye

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

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize target objects in images using only image-level labels. Despite recent progress, many approaches still rely on multi-stage pipelines or full fine-tuning of large backbones, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Arian Sabaghi , José Oramas

Deep learning for detecting objects in remotely sensed imagery can enable new technologies for important applications including mitigating climate change. However, these models often require large datasets labeled with bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Ji Hun Wang , Jeremy Irvin , Beri Kohen Behar , Ha Tran , Raghav Samavedam , Quentin Hsu , Andrew Y. Ng

Traditional object detection methods operate under the closed-set assumption, where models can only detect a fixed number of objects predefined in the training set. Recent works on open vocabulary object detection (OVD) enable the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zizhao Li , Zhengkang Xiang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham

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

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) using only image-level annotations has attracted growing attention over the past few years. Existing approaches using multiple instance learning easily fall into local optima, because such mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Chenhao Lin , Siwen Wang , Dongqi Xu , Yu Lu , Wayne Zhang

Localizing objects with weak supervision in an image is a key problem of the research in computer vision community. Many existing Weakly-Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) approaches tackle this problem by estimating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Pei Lv , Haiyu Yu , Junxiao Xue , Junjin Cheng , Lisha Cui , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang

We propose a geometry constrained network, termed GC-Net, for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL). GC-Net consists of three modules: a detector, a generator and a classifier. The detector predicts the object location defined by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Weizeng Lu , Xi Jia , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen , Yicong Zhou , Jinming Duan

Recent developments for Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) have shown the promise of leveraging unlabeled data to improve an object detector. However, thus far these methods have assumed that the unlabeled data does not contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Yen-Cheng Liu , Chih-Yao Ma , Xiaoliang Dai , Junjiao Tian , Peter Vajda , Zijian He , Zsolt Kira

Deep Learning (DL) based methods for object detection achieve remarkable performance at the cost of computationally expensive training and extensive data labeling. Robots embodiment can be exploited to mitigate this burden by acquiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Elisa Maiettini , Andrea Maracani , Raffaello Camoriano , Giulia Pasquale , Vadim Tikhanoff , Lorenzo Rosasco , Lorenzo Natale