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Medical experts often manually segment images to obtain diagnostic statistics and discard the resulting annotations. We aim to train segmentation models to alleviate this burden, but constrained to the retained summary statistics (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Omkar Kulkarni , Edward Raff , Tim Oates

Unlike fully supervised semantic segmentation, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on weaker forms of supervision to perform dense prediction tasks. Among the various types of weak supervision, WSSS with image level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Wang Zhang

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

Reliable classification and detection of certain medical conditions, in images, with state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, require vast amounts of pixel-wise annotation. However, the public availability of such datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Erik Ostrowski , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Muhammad Shafique

Current methods for 3D semantic segmentation propose training models with limited annotations to address the difficulty of annotating large, irregular, and unordered 3D point cloud data. They usually focus on the 3D domain only, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Lechun You , Zhonghua Wu , Weide Liu , Xulei Yang , Jun Cheng , Wei Zhou , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Guosheng Lin

As one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision, semantic segmentation plays an important role in real world applications. Although numerous deep learning models have made notable progress on several mainstream datasets with the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Bin Zhang , Shengjie Zhao , Rongqing Zhang

Annotation burden has become one of the biggest barriers to semantic segmentation. Approaches based on click-level annotations have therefore attracted increasing attention due to their superior trade-off between supervision and annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hongjun Chen , Jinbao Wang , Hong Cai Chen , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Ling Shao

The vast majority of semantic segmentation approaches rely on pixel-level annotations that are tedious and time consuming to obtain and suffer from significant inter and intra-expert variability. To address these issues, recent approaches…

Accurate identification of breast masses is crucial in diagnosing breast cancer; however, it can be challenging due to their small size and being camouflaged in surrounding normal glands. Worse still, it is also expensive in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xinyu Xiong , Churan Wang , Wenxue Li , Guanbin Li

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

Semantic segmentation has been a long standing challenging task in computer vision. It aims at assigning a label to each image pixel and needs significant number of pixellevel annotated data, which is often unavailable. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Nasim Souly , Concetto Spampinato , Mubarak Shah

This paper proposes a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation method using image-level label only. The class-specific activation maps from the well-trained classifiers are used as cues to train a segmentation network. The well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Ting Sun , Lei Tai , Zhihan Gao , Ming Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of the common solutions exploit class activation map (CAM) to locate object regions. However, such response maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yukun Su , Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

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

We propose an approach for learning category-level semantic segmentation purely from image-level classification tags indicating presence of categories. It exploits localization cues that emerge from training classification-tasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Nicholas Kolkin , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Most existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) to extract coarse class-specific localization maps using image-level labels. Prior works have commonly used an off-line heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lian Xu , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Wanli Ouyang , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Deep neural networks have enabled major progresses in semantic segmentation. However, even the most advanced neural architectures suffer from important limitations. First, they are vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting, i.e. they perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Buló , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

Temporal action localization presents a trade-off between test performance and annotation-time cost. Fully supervised methods achieve good performance with time-consuming boundary annotations. Weakly supervised methods with cheaper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Tongliang Liu

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

Addressing the annotation challenge in 3D Point Cloud segmentation has inspired research into weakly supervised learning. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploiting manifold and pseudo-labeling to make use of large unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia