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Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications, but its real-world impact has been significantly limited by the prohibitive annotation costs necessary to enable deployment. Segmentation methods that forgo supervision can side-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Gyungin Shin , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie

Semi-supervised learning utilizes insights from unlabeled data to improve model generalization, thereby reducing reliance on large labeled datasets. Most existing studies focus on limited samples and fail to capture the overall data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xiuzhen Guo , Lianyuan Yu , Ji Shi , Na Lei , Hongxiao Wang

Large text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating diverse, high-quality images. Additionally, these models have been successfully leveraged to edit input images by just changing the text prompt. But when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Anant Khandelwal

We are considering in this paper the task of label-efficient fine-tuning of segmentation models: We assume that a large labeled dataset is available and allows to train an accurate segmentation model in one domain, and that we have to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Bruno Sauvalle , Mathieu Salzmann

A plethora of text-guided image editing methods has recently been developed by leveraging the impressive capabilities of large-scale diffusion-based generative models especially Stable Diffusion. Despite the success of diffusion models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Qihe Pan , Zhen Zhao , Zicheng Wang , Sifan Long , Yiming Wu , Wei Ji , Haoran Liang , Ronghua Liang

We propose a novel method for unsupervised semantic image segmentation based on mutual information maximization between local and global high-level image features. The core idea of our work is to leverage recent progress in self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Robert Harb , Patrick Knöbelreiter

The robustness of image segmentation has been an important research topic in the past few years as segmentation models have reached production-level accuracy. However, like classification models, segmentation models can be vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Othmane Laousy , Alexandre Araujo , Guillaume Chassagnon , Marie-Pierre Revel , Siddharth Garg , Farshad Khorrami , Maria Vakalopoulou

3D part assembly aims to understand part relationships and predict their 6-DoF poses to construct realistic 3D shapes, addressing the growing demand for autonomous assembly, which is crucial for robots. Existing methods mainly estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Ruiyuan Zhang , Qi Wang , Jiaxiang Liu , Yu Zhang , Yuchi Huo , Chao Wu

Given the inherently costly and time-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation, the generation of synthetic datasets comprising sufficiently diverse synthetic images paired with ground-truth pixel-level annotations has garnered increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haoyu Wang , Lei Zhang , Wenrui Liu , Dengyang Jiang , Wei Wei , Chen Ding

This work proposes a novel method for object co-segmentation, i.e. pixel-level localization of a common object in a set of images, that uses no pixel-level supervision for training. Two pre-trained Vision Transformer (ViT) models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Nikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis , Ondřej Chum

Training-free diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generating multi-subject consistent images within open-domain scenarios. The key idea of these methods is to incorporate reference subject information within the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Huiguo He , Qiuyue Wang , Yuan Zhou , Yuxuan Cai , Hongyang Chao , Jian Yin , Huan Yang

In this paper, we aim to improve the performance of semantic image segmentation in a semi-supervised setting in which training is effectuated with a reduced set of annotated images and additional non-annotated images. We present a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jizong Peng , Guillermo Estrada , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers

Standard Latent Diffusion Models rely on a complex, three-part architecture consisting of a separate encoder, decoder, and diffusion network, which are trained in multiple stages. This modular design is computationally inefficient, leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

Diffusion models can synthesize realistic co-speech video from audio for various applications, such as video creation and virtual agents. However, existing diffusion-based methods are slow due to numerous denoising steps and costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Beijia Lu , Ziyi Chen , Jing Xiao , Jun-Yan Zhu

Temporally consistent dense video annotations are scarce and hard to collect. In contrast, image segmentation datasets (and pre-trained models) are ubiquitous, and easier to label for any novel task. In this paper, we introduce a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Aharon Azulay , Tavi Halperin , Orestis Vantzos , Nadav Borenstein , Ofir Bibi

Object segmentation is a crucial problem that is usually solved by using supervised learning approaches over very large datasets composed of both images and corresponding object masks. Since the masks have to be provided at pixel level,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Mickaël Chen , Thierry Artières , Ludovic Denoyer

Although powerful for image generation, consistent and controllable video is a longstanding problem for diffusion models. Video models require extensive training and computational resources, leading to high costs and large environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Muhammad Haaris Khan , Hadrien Reynaud , Bernhard Kainz

Deep learning models achieve high accuracy in segmentation tasks among others, yet domain shift often degrades the models' performance, which can be critical in real-world scenarios where no target images are available. This paper proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Hiroki Azuma , Yusuke Matsui , Atsuto Maki

Surgical instrument segmentation is a key component in developing context-aware operating rooms. Existing works on this task heavily rely on the supervision of a large amount of labeled data, which involve laborious and expensive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Daochang Liu , Yuhui Wei , Tingting Jiang , Yizhou Wang , Rulin Miao , Fei Shan , Ziyu Li

We propose a zero-shot method for generating images in arbitrary spaces (e.g., a sphere for 360{\deg} panoramas and a mesh surface for texture) using a pretrained image diffusion model. The zero-shot generation of various visual content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kyeongmin Yeo , Jaihoon Kim , Minhyuk Sung