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Obtaining pixel-level annotations over large spatial extents remains a major bottleneck for deploying machine learning in ecological applications. Here we present a multi-scale weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) framework that…

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In the realm of artificial intelligence, the emergence of foundation models, backed by high computing capabilities and extensive data, has been revolutionary. Segment Anything Model (SAM), built on the Vision Transformer (ViT) model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinyang Pu , Hecheng Jia , Linghao Zheng , Feng Wang , Feng Xu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is commonly used for brain tumor segmentation, which is critical for patient evaluation and treatment planning. To reduce the labor and expertise required for labeling, weakly-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yu-Jen Chen , Xinrong Hu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) approaches typically rely on class activation maps (CAMs) for initial seed generation, which often fail to capture global context due to limited supervision from image-level labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soojin Jang , Jungmin Yun , Junehyoung Kwon , Eunju Lee , Youngbin Kim

Scarcity of pixel-level labels is a significant challenge in practical scenarios. In specific domains like industrial smoke, acquiring such detailed annotations is particularly difficult and often requires expert knowledge. To alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Yen-chia Hsu

Though image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has achieved great progress with Class Activation Maps (CAMs) as the cornerstone, the large supervision gap between classification and segmentation still hampers the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ye Du , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Deep learning enabled semantic communications are attracting extensive attention. However, most works normally ignore the data acquisition process and suffer from robustness issues under dynamic channel environment. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Zhiyuan Qi , Yulong Feng , Zhijin Qin

Class activation maps (CAMs) are commonly employed in weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) to produce pseudo-labels. Due to incomplete or excessive class activation, existing studies often resort to offline CAM refinement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Xinyu Yang , Hossein Rahmani , Sue Black , Bryan M. Williams

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS), a fundamental computer vision task, which aims to segment out the object within only class-level labels. The traditional methods adopt the CNN-based network and utilize the class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

Underwater instance segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in various underwater vision tasks. However, the decline in image quality caused by complex underwater environments presents significant challenges to existing segmentation…

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Obtaining object response maps is one important step to achieve weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using image-level labels. However, existing methods rely on the classification task, which could result in a response map only attending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Weakly-supervised video scene graph generation (WS-VSGG) aims to parse video content into structured relational triplets without bounding box annotations and with only sparse temporal labeling, significantly reducing annotation costs.…

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Event cameras excel in capturing high-contrast scenes and dynamic objects, offering a significant advantage over traditional frame-based cameras. Despite active research into leveraging event cameras for semantic segmentation, generating…

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This work aims to leverage pre-trained foundation models, such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) and segment anything model (SAM), to address weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiaobo Yang , Xiaojin Gong

The image-level label has prevailed in weakly supervised semantic segmentation tasks due to its easy availability. Since image-level labels can only indicate the existence or absence of specific categories of objects, visualization-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Tao Chen , Yazhou Yao , Xingguo Huang , Zechao Li , Liqiang Nie , Jinhui Tang

Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is crucial in computer vision and robotics. Despite significant progress in object segmentation, part-level segmentation remains underexplored due to complex boundaries and scarce annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xinjian Wu , Ruisong Zhang , Jie Qin , Shijie Ma , Cheng-Lin Liu

Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS) aligns audio and video at the pixel level but requires costly per-frame annotations. We introduce Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (WSAVSS), which uses only video-level labels to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chengzhi Li , Heyan Huang , Ping Jian , Yanghao Zhou

We address the problem of weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using bounding box annotations. Although object bounding boxes are good indicators to segment corresponding objects, they do not specify object boundaries, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Youngmin Oh , Beomjun Kim , Bumsub Ham

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…

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