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Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

Semantic segmentation is an important and popular research area in computer vision that focuses on classifying pixels in an image based on their semantics. However, supervised deep learning requires large amounts of data to train models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lingyan Ran , Yali Li , Guoqiang Liang , Yanning Zhang

The rapid development of deep learning has driven significant progress in image semantic segmentation - a fundamental task in computer vision. Semantic segmentation algorithms often depend on the availability of pixel-level labels (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

This work addresses weakly-supervised image semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels. One common approach to this task is to propagate the activation scores of Class Activation Maps (CAMs) using a random-walk mechanism in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Shun-Yi Pan , Cheng-You Lu , Shih-Po Lee , Wen-Hsiao Peng

The cost and scarcity of fully supervised labels in statistical machine learning encourage using partially labeled data for model validation as a cheaper and more accessible alternative. Effectively collecting and leveraging weakly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 Maxime Cauchois , John Duchi

Weakly supervised landslide extraction aims to identify landslide regions from remote sensing data using models trained with weak labels, particularly image-level labels. However, it is often challenged by the imprecise boundaries of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jian Wang , Xiaokang Zhang , Xianping Ma , Weikang Yu , Pedram Ghamisi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) was originally designed for label-agnostic mask generation. Does this model also possess inherent semantic understanding, of value to broader visual tasks? In this work we follow a multi-staged approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

The Segment-Anything Model (SAM) is a vision foundation model for segmentation with a prompt-driven framework. SAM generates class-agnostic masks based on user-specified instance-referring prompts. However, adapting SAM for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hussni Mohd Zakir , Eric Tatt Wei Ho

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a promptable segmentation model recently introduced by Meta AI that has demonstrated its prowess across various fields beyond just image segmentation. SAM can accurately segment images across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Junzhang Chen , Xiangzhi Bai

Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in recent years. Traditional approaches often rely on external modules like Class Activation Maps to highlight regions of interest and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Joelle Hanna , Damian Borth

Weakly-supervised instance segmentation, which could greatly save labor and time cost of pixel mask annotation, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The commonly used pipeline firstly utilizes conventional image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Shisha Liao , Yongqing Sun , Chenqiang Gao , Pranav Shenoy K P , Song Mu , Jun Shimamura , Atsushi Sagata

Scribble-based weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using sparse scribble supervision is gaining traction as it reduces annotation costs when compared to fully annotated alternatives. Existing methods primarily generate pseudo-labels by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Lujia Jin , Yanye Lu

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign pixel-level labels to images across an unlimited range of classes. Traditional methods address this by sequentially connecting a powerful mask proposal generator, such as the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Jungho Lee , Sunghun Yang , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on class activation maps (CAMs) for pseudo labels generation. As CAMs only highlight the most discriminative regions of objects, the generated pseudo labels are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

In this work, we introduce Scribbles for All, a label and training data generation algorithm for semantic segmentation trained on scribble labels. Training or fine-tuning semantic segmentation models with weak supervision has become an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Wolfgang Boettcher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Jan Eric Lenssen , Bernt Schiele

Being able to segment unseen classes not observed during training is an important technical challenge in deep learning, because of its potential to reduce the expensive annotation required for semantic segmentation. Prior zero-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Giuseppe Pastore , Fabio Cermelli , Yongqin Xian , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata , Barbara Caputo

Existing works on semantic segmentation typically consider a small number of labels, ranging from tens to a few hundreds. With a large number of labels, training and evaluation of such task become extremely challenging due to correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yufei Wang , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jianming Zhang , Scott Cohen

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman