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Annotation-efficient segmentation of the numerous mitochondria instances from various electron microscopy (EM) images is highly valuable for biological and neuroscience research. Although unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shan Xiong , Jiabao Chen , Ye Wang , Jialin Peng

Understanding 3D object shapes necessitates shape representation by object parts abstracted from results of instance and semantic segmentation. Promising shape representations enable computers to interpret a shape with meaningful parts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiaxin Li , Hongxing Wang , Jiawei Tan , Zhilong Ou , Junsong Yuan

This paper presents a semi-supervised learning framework for a customized semantic segmentation task using multiview image streams. A key challenge of the customized task lies in the limited accessibility of the labeled data due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yuan Yao , Hyun Soo Park

Non-destructive 3D imaging of large multi-particulate samples is essential for quantifying particle-level properties, such as size, shape, and spatial distribution, across applications in mining, materials science, and geology. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Philipp D. Lösel , Aleese Barron , Yulai Zhang , Matthias Fabian , Benjamin Young , Nicolas Francois , Andrew M. Kingston

Annotation is a major hurdle in the semantic segmentation of microscopy images and volumes due to its prerequisite expertise and effort. This work enables the training of semantic segmentation networks on images with only a single point for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Shijie Li , Neel Dey , Katharina Bermond , Leon von der Emde , Christine A. Curcio , Thomas Ach , Guido Gerig

Point annotations are considerably more time-efficient than bounding box annotations. However, how to use cheap point annotations to boost the performance of semi-supervised object detection remains largely unsolved. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yongtao Ge , Qiang Zhou , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li , Chunhua Shen

Tracking segmentation masks of multiple instances has been intensively studied, but still faces two fundamental challenges: 1) the requirement of large-scale, frame-wise annotation, and 2) the complexity of two-stage approaches. To resolve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yang Fu , Sifei Liu , Umar Iqbal , Shalini De Mello , Humphrey Shi , Jan Kautz

A 3D point cloud describes the real scene precisely and intuitively.To date how to segment diversified elements in such an informative 3D scene is rarely discussed. In this paper, we first introduce a simple and flexible framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Xinlong Wang , Shu Liu , Xiaoyong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Jiaya Jia

Supervised learning in large discriminative models is a mainstay for modern computer vision. Such an approach necessitates investing in large-scale human-annotated datasets for achieving state-of-the-art results. In turn, the efficacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Liang-Chieh Chen , Raphael Gontijo Lopes , Bowen Cheng , Maxwell D. Collins , Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Hartwig Adam , Jonathon Shlens

We study the problem of unsupervised 3D semantic segmentation on raw point clouds without needing human labels in training. Existing methods usually formulate this problem into learning per-point local features followed by a simple grouping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zihui Zhang , Weisheng Dai , Hongtao Wen , Bo Yang

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in new approaches improving the accuracy of semantic segmentation in a weakly supervised setting, i.e. with only image-level labels available for training. However, this has come at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Nikita Araslanov , Stefan Roth

We study the problem of 3D semantic segmentation from raw point clouds. Unlike existing methods which primarily rely on a large amount of human annotations for training neural networks, we propose the first purely unsupervised method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zihui Zhang , Bo Yang , Bing Wang , Bo Li

Rapid progress in 3D semantic segmentation is inseparable from the advances of deep network models, which highly rely on large-scale annotated data for training. To address the high cost and challenges of 3D point-level labeling, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Li Jiang , Shaoshuai Shi , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Lai , Shu Liu , Chi-Wing Fu , Jiaya Jia

3D object detection is an important task in computer vision. Most existing methods require a large number of high-quality 3D annotations, which are expensive to collect. Especially for outdoor scenes, the problem becomes more severe due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Hongyi Xu , Fengqi Liu , Qianyu Zhou , Jinkun Hao , Zhijie Cao , Zhengyang Feng , Lizhuang Ma

Instance segmentation is essential for applications such as automated monitoring of plant health, growth, and yield. However, extensive effort is required to create large-scale datasets with pixel-level annotations of each object instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Keyhan Najafian , Farhad Maleki , Lingling Jin , Ian Stavness

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

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

We present a weakly supervised instance segmentation algorithm based on deep community learning with multiple tasks. This task is formulated as a combination of weakly supervised object detection and semantic segmentation, where individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Jaedong Hwang , Seohyun Kim , Jeany Son , Bohyung Han

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene