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In the realm of high-resolution (HR), fine-grained image segmentation, the primary challenge is balancing broad contextual awareness with the precision required for detailed object delineation, capturing intricate details and the finest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qian Yu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

In this work, we study the problem of training deep networks for semantic image segmentation using only a fraction of annotated images, which may significantly reduce human annotation efforts. Particularly, we propose a strategy that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Aniket Agarwal , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

The goal of this paper is to extract the visual-language correspondence from a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model, in the form of segmentation map, i.e., simultaneously generating images and segmentation masks for the corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ziyi Li , Qinye Zhou , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image level labels aims to produce pixel level predictions without requiring dense annotations. While recent approaches have leveraged generative models to augment existing data, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Wangyu Wu , Zhenhong Chen , Xiaowei Huang , Fei Ma , Jimin Xiao

Collecting and annotating datasets for pixel-level semantic segmentation tasks are highly labor-intensive. Data augmentation provides a viable solution by enhancing model generalization without additional real-world data collection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Huy Che , Dinh-Duy Phan , Duc-Khai Lam

To synthesize high-fidelity samples, diffusion models typically require auxiliary data to guide the generation process. However, it is impractical to procure the painstaking patch-level annotation effort required in specialized domains like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Minh-Quan Le , Saarthak Kapse , Prateek Prasanna , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

Fully-supervised category-level pose estimation aims to determine the 6-DoF poses of unseen instances from known categories, requiring expensive mannual labeling costs. Recently, various self-supervised category-level pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jingtao Sun , Yaonan Wang , Mingtao Feng , Chao Ding , Mike Zheng Shou , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Deep learning models in computational pathology often fail to generalize across cohorts and institutions due to domain shift. Existing approaches either fail to leverage unlabeled data from the target domain or rely on image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tengyue Zhang , Ruiwen Ding , Luoting Zhuang , Yuxiao Wu , Erika F. Rodriguez , William Hsu

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation aims to utilize limited labeled images and abundant unlabeled images to achieve label-efficient learning, wherein the weak-to-strong consistency regularization framework, popularized by FixMatch, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Wentao Pan , Zhe Xu , Jiangpeng Yan , Zihan Wu , Raymond Kai-yu Tong , Xiu Li , Jianhua Yao

Semantic segmentation is an important and popular research area in computer vision that focuses on classifying pixels in an image based on their semantics. However, supervised deep learning requires large amounts of data to train models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lingyan Ran , Yali Li , Guoqiang Liang , Yanning Zhang

In the medical domain, acquiring large datasets is challenging due to both accessibility issues and stringent privacy regulations. Consequently, data availability and privacy protection are major obstacles to applying machine learning in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Wenwu Tang , Khaled Seyam , Bin Yang

Controllable image synthesis models allow creation of diverse images based on text instructions or guidance from a reference image. Recently, denoising diffusion probabilistic models have been shown to generate more realistic imagery than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xihui Liu , Dong Huk Park , Samaneh Azadi , Gong Zhang , Arman Chopikyan , Yuxiao Hu , Humphrey Shi , Anna Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell

Few-shot learning is a promising way for reducing the label cost in new categories adaptation with the guidance of a small, well labeled support set. But for few-shot semantic segmentation, the pixel-level annotations of support images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jing Wang , Yuang Liu , Qiang Zhou , Fan Wang

Open-world semantic segmentation presently relies significantly on extensive image-text pair datasets, which often suffer from a lack of fine-grained pixel annotations on sufficient categories. The acquisition of such data is rendered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kaixin Cai , Pengzhen Ren , Jianhua Han , Yi Zhu , Hang Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable performance in image super-resolution (SR), but their high computational cost limits practical deployment in remote sensing applications. To address this issue, we propose SlimDiffSR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun

We propose an approach to domain adaptation for semantic segmentation that is both practical and highly accurate. In contrast to previous work, we abandon the use of computationally involved adversarial objectives, network ensembles and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Nikita Araslanov , Stefan Roth

This paper considers the problem of utilizing a large-scale text-to-image diffusion model to tackle the challenging Inexact Segmentation (IS) task. Unlike traditional approaches that rely heavily on discriminative-model-based paradigms or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianjiao Zhang , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Semantic Image Segmentation facilitates a multitude of real-world applications ranging from autonomous driving over industrial process supervision to vision aids for human beings. These models are usually trained in a supervised fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Volker Knauthe , Arne Rak , Tristan Wirth , Thomas Pöllabauer , Simon Metzler , Arjan Kuijper , Dieter W. Fellner

Semantic communication is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu