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Semantic segmentation has achieved huge progress via adopting deep Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN). However, the performance of FCN based models severely rely on the amounts of pixel-level annotations which are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Chunfeng Song , Yan Huang , Wanli Ouyang , Liang Wang

The pixel-wise dense prediction tasks based on weakly supervisions currently use Class Attention Maps (CAM) to generate pseudo masks as ground-truth. However, the existing methods typically depend on the painstaking training modules, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

Despite the remarkable progress, weakly supervised segmentation approaches are still inferior to their fully supervised counterparts. We obverse the performance gap mainly comes from their limitation on learning to produce high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yunchao Wei , Huaxin Xiao , Honghui Shi , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Thomas S. Huang

Most existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) to extract coarse class-specific localization maps using image-level labels. Prior works have commonly used an off-line heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lian Xu , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Wanli Ouyang , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation~(CISS), within Incremental Learning for semantic segmentation, targets segmenting new categories while reducing the catastrophic forgetting on the old categories.Besides, background shifting, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Anqi Zhang , Guangyu Gao

In recent years, Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has been widely applied to Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) tasks due to its powerful cross-modal semantic understanding capabilities. This paper proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiuli Bi , Die Xiao , Junchao Fan , Bin Xiao

Recent weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods strive to incorporate contextual knowledge to improve the completeness of class activation maps (CAM). In this work, we argue that the knowledge bias between instances and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Feilong Tang , Zhongxing Xu , Zhaojun Qu , Wei Feng , Xingjian Jiang , Zongyuan Ge

Obtaining accurate pixel-level localization from class labels is a crucial process in weakly supervised semantic segmentation and object localization. Attribution maps from a trained classifier are widely used to provide pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jungbeom Lee , Eunji Kim , Jisoo Mok , Sungroh Yoon

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging problem that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of advanced solutions exploit class activation map (CAM). However, CAMs can hardly serve as the object mask due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Pretrained detectors perform well on benchmarks but often suffer performance degradation in real-world deployments due to distribution gaps between training data and target environments. COCO-like benchmarks emphasize category diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Junwoo Park , Jangho Lee , Sunho Lim

Foreground segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, which includes salient object detection, forgery detection, defocus blur detection, shadow detection, and camouflage object detection. Previous works have typically relied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Weihuang Liu , Xi Shen , Chi-Man Pun , Xiaodong Cun

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Obtaining object response maps is one important step to achieve weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using image-level labels. However, existing methods rely on the classification task, which could result in a response map only attending…

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

Few-shot semantic segmentation task aims at performing segmentation in query images with a few annotated support samples. Currently, few-shot segmentation methods mainly focus on leveraging foreground information without fully utilizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Xiwen Yao , Junwei Han

Surface defect detection plays a critical role in industrial quality inspection. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have significantly enhanced the automation level of detection processes. However, conventional semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hang-Cheng Dong , Lu Zou , Bingguo Liu , Dong Ye , Guodong Liu

Although point-based networks are demonstrated to be accurate for 3D point cloud modeling, they are still falling behind their voxel-based competitors in 3D detection. We observe that the prevailing set abstraction design for down-sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Chen Chen , Zhe Chen , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we address the problem of weakly supervised object localization (WSL), which trains a detection network on the dataset with only image-level annotations. The proposed approach is built on the observation that the proposal set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Wenju Xu , Yuanwei Wu , Wenchi Ma , Guanghui Wang

Weakly-supervised image segmentation (WSIS) is a critical task in computer vision that relies on image-level class labels. Multi-stage training procedures have been widely used in existing WSIS approaches to obtain high-quality pseudo-masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chunyan Wang , Dong Zhang , Rui Yan

Foreground segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, encompassing various subdivision tasks. Previous research has typically designed task-specific architectures for each task, leading to a lack of unification. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zuyao You , Lingyu Kong , Lingchen Meng , Zuxuan Wu