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Weakly-supervised object localization methods tend to fail for object classes that consistently co-occur with the same background elements, e.g. trains on tracks. We propose a method to overcome these failures by adding a very small amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Alexander Kolesnikov , Christoph H. Lampert

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to learn representations that encode object location using only image-level category labels. However, many objects can be labeled at different levels of granularity. Is it an animal, a bird,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Elijah Cole , Kimberly Wilber , Grant Van Horn , Xuan Yang , Marco Fornoni , Pietro Perona , Serge Belongie , Andrew Howard , Oisin Mac Aodha

Training object detectors with only image-level annotations is very challenging because the target objects are often surrounded by a large number of background clutters. Many existing approaches tackle this problem through object proposal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Wenhui Jiang , Thuyen Ngo , B. S. Manjunath , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

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

Weakly supervised object detection has recently received much attention, since it only requires image-level labels instead of the bounding-box labels consumed in strongly supervised learning. Nevertheless, the save in labeling expense is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Jiajie Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Rui Zhang

Despite weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) being a promising step toward evading strong instance-level annotations, its capability is confined to closed-set categories within a single training dataset. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jianghang Lin , Yunhang Shen , Bingquan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Ke Li , Liujuan Cao

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) is a challenging task when provided with image category supervision but required to simultaneously learn object locations and object detectors. Many WSOD approaches adopt multiple instance learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Fang Wan , Chang Liu , Wei Ke , Xiangyang Ji , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) focuses on training object detector with only image-level annotations, and is challenging due to the gap between the supervision and the objective. Most of existing approaches model WSOD as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yan Gao , Boxiao Liu , Nan Guo , Xiaochun Ye , Fang Wan , Haihang You , Dongrui Fan

Weakly supervised object localization is a challenging task in which the object of interest should be localized while learning its appearance. State-of-the-art methods recycle the architecture of a standard CNN by using the activation maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Akhil Meethal , Marco Pedersoli , Soufiane Belharbi , Eric Granger

Pointwise localization allows more precise localization and accurate interpretability, compared to bounding box, in applications where objects are highly unstructured such as in medical domain. In this work, we focus on weakly supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Soufiane Belharbi , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize target objects in images using only image-level labels. Despite recent progress, many approaches still rely on multi-stage pipelines or full fine-tuning of large backbones, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Arian Sabaghi , José Oramas

We present a two-stage learning framework for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL). While most previous efforts rely on high-level feature based CAMs (Class Activation Maps), this paper proposes to localize objects using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jinheng Xie , Cheng Luo , Xiangping Zhu , Ziqi Jin , Weizeng Lu , Linlin Shen

Weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) has emerged as an inspiring recent topic to avoid expensive instance-level object annotations. However, the bounding boxes of most existing WSOD methods are mainly determined by precomputed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Bowen Dong , Zitong Huang , Yuelin Guo , Qilong Wang , Zhenxing Niu , Wangmeng Zuo

The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne 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

Weakly supervised object detection~(WSOD) has recently attracted much attention. However, the lack of bounding-box supervision makes its accuracy much lower than fully supervised object detection (FSOD), and currently modern FSOD techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Lin Sui , Chen-Lin Zhang , Jianxin Wu

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) aims to classify and locate objects with only image-level supervision. Many WSOD approaches adopt multiple instance learning as the initial model, which is prone to converge to the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Wenlong Gao , Ying Chen , Yong Peng

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

Weakly-supervised object detection (WOD) is a challenging problems in computer vision. The key problem is to simultaneously infer the exact object locations in the training images and train the object detectors, given only the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Dingwen Zhang , Deyu Meng , Long Zhao , Junwei Han

In recent years, weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted much attention due to its low labeling cost. The success of recent WSOD models is often ascribed to the two-stage multi-class classification (MCC) task, i.e., multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yufei Yin , Lechao Cheng , Wengang Zhou , Jiajun Deng , Zhou Yu , Houqiang Li