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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) plays a critical role in maritime surveillance, yet deep learning for SAR analysis is limited by the lack of pixel-level annotations. This paper explores how general-purpose vision foundation models can enable…

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Instance segmentation enables the analysis of spatial and temporal properties of cells in microscopy images by identifying the pixels belonging to each cell. However, progress is constrained by the scarcity of high-quality labeled…

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The growing popularity of robotic minimally invasive surgeries has made deep learning-based surgical training a key area of research. A thorough understanding of the surgical scene components is crucial, which semantic segmentation models…

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Often in medical imaging, it is prohibitively challenging to produce enough boundary annotations to train deep neural networks for accurate tumor segmentation. We propose the use of weak labels about whether an image presents tumor or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Eugene Vorontsov , Pavlo Molchanov , Christopher Beckham , Jan Kautz , Samuel Kadoury

Pixel-level vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, require extensive and high-quality annotated data, which is costly to obtain. Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) has emerged as a solution to alleviate the labeling burden…

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Spannotation is an open source user-friendly tool developed for image annotation for semantic segmentation specifically in autonomous navigation tasks. This study provides an evaluation of Spannotation, demonstrating its effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Samuel O. Folorunsho , William R. Norris

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation typically requires large amount of labeled data for training, making it less applicable in clinical settings due to high annotation cost. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Yichi Zhang , Bohao Lv , Le Xue , Wenbo Zhang , Yuchen Liu , Yu Fu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Incompletely-Supervised Concealed Object Segmentation (ISCOS) involves segmenting objects that seamlessly blend into their surrounding environments, utilizing incompletely annotated data, such as weak and semi-annotations, for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Ziyun Yang , Youwei Pang , Longxiang Tang , Chengyu Fang , Yulun Zhang , Linghe Kong , Xiu Li , Sina Farsiu

Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentations depend on two components: (i) a pseudo label generation model that provides instances which are consistent with a given annotation; and (ii) an instance segmentation model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Aditya Arun , C. V. Jawahar , M. Pawan Kumar

Automatic medical image segmentation plays a critical role in scientific research and medical care. Existing high-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large training datasets with high-quality manual annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shanshan Wang , Cheng Li , Rongpin Wang , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hongna Tan , Yaping Wu , Xinfeng Liu , Hui Sun , Rui Yang , Xin Liu , Jie Chen , Huihui Zhou , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hairong Zheng

Standard segmentation of medical images based on full-supervised convolutional networks demands accurate dense annotations. Such learning framework is built on laborious manual annotation with restrict demands for expertise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Liyan Sun , Jianxiong Wu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Due to the lack of expertise for medical image annotation, the investigation of label-efficient methodology for medical image segmentation becomes a heated topic. Recent progresses focus on the efficient utilization of weak annotations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Junwen Pan , Qi Bi , Yanzhan Yang , Pengfei Zhu , Cheng Bian

Non-destructive 3D imaging of large multi-particulate samples is essential for quantifying particle-level properties, such as size, shape, and spatial distribution, across applications in mining, materials science, and geology. However,…

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Deep learning-based nuclei segmentation and classification in pathology images typically rely on large-scale pixel-level manual annotations, which are costly and difficult to obtain across diverse tissues and staining conditions. To address…

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Few-shot video object segmentation aims to reduce annotation costs; however, existing methods still require abundant dense frame annotations for training, which are scarce in the medical domain. We investigate an extremely low-data regime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zixuan Zheng , Yilei Shi , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Semantic segmentation is one of the basic, yet essential scene understanding tasks for an autonomous agent. The recent developments in supervised machine learning and neural networks have enjoyed great success in enhancing the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 S. Ehsan Mirsadeghi , Ali Royat , Hamid Rezatofighi

We propose an approach to instance-level image segmentation that is built on top of category-level segmentation. Specifically, for each pixel in a semantic category mask, its corresponding instance bounding box is predicted using a deep…

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In-context segmentation (ICS) aims to segment arbitrary concepts, e.g., objects, parts, or personalized instances, given one annotated visual examples. Existing work relies on (i) fine-tuning vision foundation models (VFMs), which improves…

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Due to the few annotated labels of 3D point clouds, how to learn discriminative features of point clouds to segment object instances is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective 3D instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Linghua Tang , Le Hui , Jin Xie