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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

In recent years, several Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WS3) methods have been proposed that use class activation maps (CAMs) generated by a classifier to produce pseudo-ground truths for training segmentation models. While CAMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 M. Maruf , Arka Daw , Amartya Dutta , Jie Bu , Anuj Karpatne

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

This paper proposes a new transformer-based framework to learn class-specific object localization maps as pseudo labels for weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). Inspired by the fact that the attended regions of the one-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Dan Xu

Semantic segmentation has recently achieved notable advances by exploiting "class-level" contextual information during learning. However, these approaches simply concatenate class-level information to pixel features to boost the pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ye Huang , Di Kang , Liang Chen , Wenjing Jia , Xiangjian He , Lixin Duan , Xuefei Zhe , Linchao Bao

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level labels has gained significant attention due to its cost-effectiveness. The typical framework involves using image-level labels as training data to generate pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Wangyu Wu , Tianhong Dai , Zhenhong Chen , Xiaowei Huang , Jimin Xiao , Fei Ma , Renrong Ouyang

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

CNN visualization and interpretation methods, like class-activation maps (CAMs), are typically used to highlight the image regions linked to class predictions. These models allow to simultaneously classify images and extract class-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Soufiane Belharbi , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) based on image-level labels is challenging since it is hard to obtain complete semantic regions. To address this issue, we propose a self-training method that utilizes fused multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Guoqing Yang , Chuang Zhu , Yu Zhang

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) 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

As advanced image manipulation techniques emerge, detecting the manipulation becomes increasingly important. Despite the success of recent learning-based approaches for image manipulation detection, they typically require expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuanhao Zhai , Tianyu Luan , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan

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

In recent years, Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has been widely applied to Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) tasks due to its powerful cross-modal semantic understanding capabilities. This paper proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiuli Bi , Die Xiao , Junchao Fan , Bin Xiao

Weakly supervised object localization aims to find a target object region in a given image with only weak supervision, such as image-level labels. Most existing methods use a class activation map (CAM) to generate a localization map;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Eunji Kim , Siwon Kim , Jungbeom Lee , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon

In industrial settings, weakly supervised (WS) methods are usually preferred over their fully supervised (FS) counterparts as they do not require costly manual annotations. Unfortunately, the segmentation masks obtained in the WS regime are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Andrea Marelli , Luca Magri , Federica Arrigoni , Giacomo Boracchi

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level labels can greatly reduce the annotation cost and therefore has attracted considerable research interest. However, its performance is still inferior to the fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Qi Yao , Xiaojin Gong

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation has attracted much research interest in recent years considering its advantage of low labeling cost. Most of the advanced algorithms follow the design principle that expands and constrains the seed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Generating precise class-aware pseudo ground-truths, a.k.a, class activation maps (CAMs), is essential for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation. The original CAM method usually produces incomplete and inaccurate localization maps. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jinlong Li , Zequn Jie , Xu Wang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is a challenging problem when given image category labels but requires to learn object localization models. Optimizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for classification tends to activate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Wei Gao , Fang Wan , Xingjia Pan , Zhiliang Peng , Qi Tian , Zhenjun Han , Bolei Zhou , Qixiang Ye