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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

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to obtain high-level semantic representation on low-level visual features without manual annotations. Most existing methods are bottom-up approaches that try to group pixels into regions based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhaoyuan Yin , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Xianzhe Xu , Hanling Zhang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

The low-level details and high-level semantics are both essential to the semantic segmentation task. However, to speed up the model inference, current approaches almost always sacrifice the low-level details, which leads to a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Changqian Yu , Changxin Gao , Jingbo Wang , Gang Yu , Chunhua Shen , Nong Sang

Semantic segmentation is a challenging vision problem that usually necessitates the collection of large amounts of finely annotated data, which is often quite expensive to obtain. Coarsely annotated data provides an interesting alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Isay Katsman , Rohun Tripathi , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie

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 segmentation methods have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the reliance on costly pixel-level annotations during model training. However, the current weakly supervised nuclei segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Ye Zhang , Yifeng Wang , Zijie Fang , Hao Bian , Linghan Cai , Ziyue Wang , Yongbing Zhang

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

Collecting annotated data for semantic segmentation is time-consuming and hard to scale up. In this paper, we for the first time propose a unified framework, termed as Multi-Dataset Pretraining, to take full advantage of the fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Bowen Shi , Xiaopeng Zhang , Haohang Xu , Wenrui Dai , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Current weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) frameworks usually contain the separated mask-refinement model and the main semantic region mining model. These approaches would contain redundant feature extraction backbones and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Dingwen Zhang , Wenyuan Zeng , Guangyu Guo , Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Ming-Ming Cheng , Junwei Han

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved high ac-curacy in the field of image recognition. By inspired from human learning method, we propose a semantic segmentation method using cooperative learning which shares the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Ryota Ikedo , Kazuhiro Hotta

The performance of deep learning based semantic segmentation models heavily depends on sufficient data with careful annotations. However, even the largest public datasets only provide samples with pixel-level annotations for rather limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Huaxin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Yu Liu , Maojun Zhang , Jiashi Feng

This work addresses weakly-supervised image semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels. One common approach to this task is to propagate the activation scores of Class Activation Maps (CAMs) using a random-walk mechanism in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Shun-Yi Pan , Cheng-You Lu , Shih-Po Lee , Wen-Hsiao Peng

This study presents a novel deep learning architecture for multi-class classification and localization of abnormalities in medical imaging illustrated through experiments on mammograms. The proposed network combines two learning branches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ran Bakalo , Jacob Goldberger , Rami Ben-Ari

Semantic segmentation of microscopic cell images using deep learning is an important technique, however, it requires a large number of images and ground truth labels for training. To address the above problem, we consider an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sota Kato , Kazuhiro Hotta

Text segmentation is a challenging vision task with many downstream applications. Current text segmentation methods require pixel-level annotations, which are expensive in the cost of human labor and limited in application scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyan Zu , Haiyang Yu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Semantic segmentation is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision. However, in many applications, a frequent obstacle is the lack of labeled images, due to the high cost of pixel-level labeling. In this scenario, it makes sense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Adrian Peláez-Vegas , Pablo Mesejo , Julián Luengo

Weakly supervised segmentation is an important problem in medical image analysis due to the high cost of pixelwise annotation. Prior methods, while often focusing on weak labels of 2D images, exploit few structural cues of volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qian He , Shuailin Li , Xuming He

Semantic segmentation is a task that traditionally requires a large dataset of pixel-level ground truth labels, which is time-consuming and expensive to obtain. Recent advancements in the weakly-supervised setting show that reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Erik Stammes , Tom F. H. Runia , Michael Hofmann , Mohsen Ghafoorian

Weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation is essential for 3D scene understanding, especially as the growing scale of data and high annotation costs associated with fully supervised approaches. Existing methods primarily rely on two forms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Xu Wang

Self-attention is of vital importance in semantic segmentation as it enables modeling of long-range context, which translates into improved performance. We argue that it is equally important to model short-range context, especially to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza