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Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have shown impressive results in learning visual representations from unlabeled images. This paper aims to improve their performance further by utilizing the architectural advantages of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sukmin Yun , Hankook Lee , Jaehyung Kim , Jinwoo Shin

Positional encoding is important for vision transformer (ViT) to capture the spatial structure of the input image. General effectiveness has been proven in ViT. In our work we propose to train ViT to recognize the positional label of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhemin Zhang , Xun Gong

Building a large image dataset with high-quality object masks for semantic segmentation is costly and time consuming. In this paper, we introduce a principled semi-supervised framework that only uses a small set of fully supervised images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Mostafa S. Ibrahim , Arash Vahdat , Mani Ranjbar , William G. Macready

Transformer has been very successful in various computer vision tasks and understanding the working mechanism of transformer is important. As touchstones, weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) and class activation map (CAM) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Lianghui Zhu , Yingyue Li , Jiemin Fang , Yan Liu , Hao Xin , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Weakly supervised segmentation requires assigning a label to every pixel based on training instances with partial annotations such as image-level tags, object bounding boxes, labeled points and scribbles. This task is challenging, as coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Tsung-Wei Ke , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Stella X. Yu

Semi-weakly supervised semantic segmentation (SWSSS) aims to train a model to identify objects in images based on a small number of images with pixel-level labels, and many more images with only image-level labels. Most existing SWSSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wonho Bae , Junhyug Noh , Milad Jalali Asadabadi , Danica J. Sutherland

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

This work addresses the task of completely weakly supervised class-incremental learning for semantic segmentation to learn segmentation for both base and additional novel classes using only image-level labels. While class-incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Minkwan Kim , Soeun Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

Few shot segmentation (FSS) aims to learn pixel-level classification of a target object in a query image using only a few annotated support samples. This is challenging as it requires modeling appearance variations of target objects and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Soopil Kim , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to categorize each pixel in an image into a corresponding class without the use of annotated data. It is a widely researched area as obtaining labeled datasets is expensive. While previous works in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yau Shing Jonathan Cheung , Xi Chen , Lihe Yang , Hengshuang Zhao

Weakly-supervised learning approaches have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the effort required for human annotations in training neural networks. This paper investigates a framework for weakly-supervised object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Byeongkeun Kang , Sinhae Cha , Yeejin Lee

Pre-trained vision-language models learn massive data to model unified representations of images and natural languages, which can be widely applied to downstream machine learning tasks. In addition to zero-shot inference, in order to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qian-Wei Wang , Yuqiu Xie , Letian Zhang , Zimo Liu , Shu-Tao Xia

While deep learning, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced classification performance, its typical reliance on extensive annotated datasets presents a major obstacle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matheus Vinícius Todescato , Joel Luís Carbonera

In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised semantic segmentation approach for food images which takes advantage of the zero-shot capabilities and promptability of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) along with the attention mechanisms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos , Anastasios Delopoulos

The few-shot learning ability of vision transformers (ViTs) is rarely investigated though heavily desired. In this work, we empirically find that with the same few-shot learning frameworks, \eg~Meta-Baseline, replacing the widely used CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Bowen Dong , Pan Zhou , Shuicheng Yan , Wangmeng Zuo

We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

Semi- and weakly-supervised learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the object detection literature since they can alleviate the cost of annotation needed to successfully train deep learning models. State-of-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akhil Meethal , Marco Pedersoli , Zhongwen Zhu , Francisco Perdigon Romero , Eric Granger

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

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

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have proven effective in solving the task of semantic segmentation. However, their efficiency heavily relies on the pixel-level annotations that are expensive to get and often require domain expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Ostap Viniavskyi , Mariia Dobko , Oles Dobosevych