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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Andrii Zadaianchuk , Matthaeus Kleindessner , Yi Zhu , Francesco Locatello , Thomas Brox

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

Recent mainstream weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) approaches mainly relies on image-level classification learning, which has limited representation capacity. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Junliang Chen , Xiaodong Zhao , Minmin Liu , Linlin Shen

Class-incremental semantic image segmentation assumes multiple model updates, each enriching the model to segment new categories. This is typically carried out by providing expensive pixel-level annotations to the training algorithm for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Subhankar Roy , Riccardo Volpi , Gabriela Csurka , Diane Larlus

We present a causal inference framework to improve Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS). Specifically, we aim to generate better pixel-level pseudo-masks by using only image-level labels -- the most crucial step in WSSS. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Dong Zhang , Hanwang Zhang , Jinhui Tang , Xiansheng Hua , Qianru Sun

We present a self-supervised learning (SSL) method suitable for semi-global tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. We enforce local consistency between self-learned features, representing corresponding image locations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ashraful Islam , Ben Lundell , Harpreet Sawhney , Sudipta Sinha , Peter Morales , Richard J. Radke

Point cloud analysis has received much attention recently; and segmentation is one of the most important tasks. The success of existing approaches is attributed to deep network design and large amount of labelled training data, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Xun Xu , Gim Hee Lee

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn novel visual categories from very few samples, which is a challenging problem in real-world applications. Many methods of few-shot classification work well on general images to learn global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojian He , Jinfu Lin , Junming Shen

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with only image-level labels saves large human effort to annotate pixel-level labels. Cutting-edge approaches rely on various innovative constraints and heuristic rules to generate the masks for every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan , Chunfeng Song , Jun Xiao

A consistent trend throughout the research of oriented object detection has been the pursuit of maintaining comparable performance with fewer and weaker annotations. This is particularly crucial in the remote sensing domain, where the dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wei Zhang , Xiang Liu , Ningjing Liu , Mingxin Liu , Wei Liao , Chunyan Xu , Xue Yang

Weakly supervised segmentation methods using bounding box annotations focus on obtaining a pixel-level mask from each box containing an object. Existing methods typically depend on a class-agnostic mask generator, which operates on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jungbeom Lee , Jihun Yi , Chaehun Shin , Sungroh Yoon

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in new approaches improving the accuracy of semantic segmentation in a weakly supervised setting, i.e. with only image-level labels available for training. However, this has come at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Nikita Araslanov , Stefan Roth

Most micro- and macro-expression spotting methods in untrimmed videos suffer from the burden of video-wise collection and frame-wise annotation. Weakly-supervised expression spotting (WES) based on video-level labels can potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wang-Wang Yu , Kai-Fu Yang , Hong-Mei Yan , Yong-Jie Li

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

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) approaches typically rely on class activation maps (CAMs) for initial seed generation, which often fail to capture global context due to limited supervision from image-level labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soojin Jang , Jungmin Yun , Junehyoung Kwon , Eunju Lee , Youngbin Kim

Object counting is a fundamental task in computer vision, with broad applicability in many real-world scenarios. Fully-supervised counting methods require costly point-level annotations per object. Few weakly-supervised methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiaowen Zhang , Zijie Yue , Yong Luo , Cairong Zhao , Qijun Chen , Miaojing Shi

In many real-world scenarios, obtaining large amounts of labeled data can be a daunting task. Weakly supervised learning techniques have gained significant attention in recent years as an alternative to traditional supervised learning, as…

Weakly-supervised object localization methods tend to fail for object classes that consistently co-occur with the same background elements, e.g. trains on tracks. We propose a method to overcome these failures by adding a very small amount…

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