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Quality of deep convolutional neural network predictions strongly depends on the size of the training dataset and the quality of the annotations. Creating annotations, especially for 3D medical image segmentation, is time-consuming and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Matin Hosseinzadeh , Anindo Saha , Joeran Bosma , Henkjan Huisman

Background and objective: Employing deep learning models in critical domains such as medical imaging poses challenges associated with the limited availability of training data. We present a strategy for improving the performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Eva Pachetti , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Sara Colantonio

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using image-level labels. Existing methods typically entangle semantic recognition and object localization, which often leads models to focus exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qingze He , Fagui Liu , Dengke Zhang , Qingmao Wei , Quan Tang

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks heavily depends on a large amount of labeled data to supervise the training. On the other hand, the annotation of biomedical images requires domain knowledge and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xinrong Hu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

In material science, image segmentation is of great significance for quantitative analysis of microstructures. Here, we propose a novel Weighted Propagation Convolution Neural Network based on U-Net (WPU-Net) to detect boundary in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Wei Liu , Jiahao Chen , Chuni Liu , Xiaojuan Ban , Boyuan Ma , Hao Wang , Weihua Xue , Yu Guo

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation aims to learn from a small amount of labeled data and plenty of unlabeled ones for the segmentation task. The most common approach is to generate pseudo-labels for unlabeled images to augment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Rui Chen , Tao Chen , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao

Tree instance segmentation of airborne laser scanning (ALS) data is of utmost importance for forest monitoring, but remains challenging due to variations in the data caused by factors such as sensor resolution, vegetation state at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Swann Emilien Céleste Destouches , Jesse Lahaye , Laurent Valentin Jospin , Jan Skaloud

This paper focuses on a novel and challenging detection scenario: A majority of true objects/instances is unlabeled in the datasets, so these missing-labeled areas will be regarded as the background during training. Previous art on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Han Zhang , Fangyi Chen , Zhiqiang Shen , Qiqi Hao , Chenchen Zhu , Marios Savvides

Deep learning has achieved significant advancements in medical image segmentation. Currently, obtaining accurate segmentation outcomes is critically reliant on large-scale datasets with high-quality annotations. However, noisy annotations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Yuyang Fu , Xiuzhen Guo , Ji Shi

Instruction-driven image editing with unified multimodal generative models has advanced rapidly, yet their underlying visual reasoning remains limited, leading to suboptimal performance on reasoning-centric edits. Reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hengjia Li , Liming Jiang , Qing Yan , Yizhi Song , Hao Kang , Zichuan Liu , Xin Lu , Boxi Wu , Deng Cai

Deep learning based image segmentation methods have achieved great success, even having human-level accuracy in some applications. However, due to the black box nature of deep learning, the best method may fail in some situations. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Leixin Zhou , Wenxiang Deng , Xiaodong Wu

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

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

Accurately segmenting a variety of clinically significant lesions from whole body computed tomography (CT) scans is a critical task on precision oncology imaging, denoted as universal lesion segmentation (ULS). Manual annotation is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Youbao Tang , Jinzheng Cai , Ke Yan , Lingyun Huang , Guotong Xie , Jing Xiao , Jingjing Lu , Gigin Lin , Le Lu

Though image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has achieved great progress with Class Activation Maps (CAMs) as the cornerstone, the large supervision gap between classification and segmentation still hampers the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ye Du , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

We present a generic Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework optimized for crafting adversarial attacks on different model types spanning from ECG signal analysis (1D), image classification (2D), and video classification (3D). The framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Soumyendu Sarkar , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Sajad Mousavi , Vineet Gundecha , Avisek Naug , Sahand Ghorbanpour

Understanding surgical scenes can provide better healthcare quality for patients, especially with the vast amount of video data that is generated during MIS. Processing these videos generates valuable assets for training sophisticated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Fatmaelzahraa Ali Ahmed , Muhammad Arsalan , Abdulaziz Al-Ali , Khalid Al-Jalham , Shidin Balakrishnan

We address the task of weakly-supervised few-shot image classification and segmentation, by leveraging a Vision Transformer (ViT) pretrained with self-supervision. Our proposed method takes token representations from the self-supervised ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Dahyun Kang , Piotr Koniusz , Minsu Cho , Naila Murray

Weakly-supervised learning (WSL) has recently triggered substantial interest as it mitigates the lack of pixel-wise annotations. Given global image labels, WSL methods yield pixel-level predictions (segmentations), which enable to interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Soufiane Belharbi , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Instance segmentation is an important computer vision problem which remains challenging despite impressive recent advances due to deep learning-based methods. Given sufficient training data, fully supervised methods can yield excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Paul Hilt , Maedeh Zarvandi , Edgar Kaziakhmedov , Sourabh Bhide , Maria Leptin , Constantin Pape , Anna Kreshuk

Over the last decade, the use of machine learning (ML) approaches in medicinal applications has increased manifold. Most of these approaches are based on deep learning, which aims to learn representations from grid data (like medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Maha Ezzelarab , Midhila Madhusoodanan , Shrimanti Ghosh , Geetika Vadali , Jacob Jaremko , Abhilash Hareendranathan