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There are two challenges presented in parsing road scenes from UAV images: the complexity of processing high-resolution images and the dependency on extensive manual annotations required by traditional supervised deep learning methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zihan Ma , Yongshang Li , Ronggui Ma , Chen Liang

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to discover and localize semantically meaningful categories within image corpora without any form of annotation. To solve this task, algorithms must produce features for every pixel that are both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mark Hamilton , Zhoutong Zhang , Bharath Hariharan , Noah Snavely , William T. Freeman

Unsupervised semantic segmentation requires assigning a label to every pixel without any human annotations. Despite recent advances in self-supervised representation learning for individual images, unsupervised semantic segmentation with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Wenbin He , William Surmeier , Arvind Kumar Shekar , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Unsupervised learning methods have a soft inspiration in cognition models. To this day, the most successful unsupervised learning methods revolve around clustering samples in a mathematical space. In this paper we propose a primitive-based,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alfredo Ibias , Hector Antona , Guillem Ramirez-Miranda , Enric Guinovart , Eduard Alarcon

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

We present a framework for efficient perceptual inference that explicitly reasons about the segmentation of its inputs and features. Rather than being trained for any specific segmentation, our framework learns the grouping process in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Klaus Greff , Antti Rasmus , Mathias Berglund , Tele Hotloo Hao , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Harri Valpola

In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limits the quantity of labels available for training in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Tarun Kalluri , Girish Varma , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

Can we automatically group images into semantically meaningful clusters when ground-truth annotations are absent? The task of unsupervised image classification remains an important, and open challenge in computer vision. Several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Marc Proesmans , Luc Van Gool

Training deep networks for semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled training data, which presents a major challenge in practice, as labeling segmentation masks is a highly labor-intensive process. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Yuhua Chen , Adrian Köring , Suman Saha , Luc Van Gool

As a powerful way of realizing semi-supervised segmentation, the cross supervision method learns cross consistency based on independent ensemble models using abundant unlabeled images. However, the wrong pseudo labeling information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Yunyang Zhang , Zhiqiang Gong , Xiaohu Zheng , Xiaoyu Zhao , Wen Yao

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Changjian Li

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at grouping different semantic patterns in an image without the use of human annotation. Similarly, image clustering searches for groupings of images based on their semantic content without supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Isaac Wasserman , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Image segmentation, one of the most critical vision tasks, has been studied for many years. Most of the early algorithms are unsupervised methods, which use hand-crafted features to divide the image into many regions. Recently, owing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qinghong Lin , Weichan Zhong , Jianglin Lu

Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in clinical decision-making, enabling precise localization of lesions and guiding interventions. Despite significant advances in segmentation accuracy, the black-box nature of most deep models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Limai Jiang , Ruitao Xie , Bokai Yang , Huazhen Huang , Juan He , Yufu Huo , Zikai Wang , Yang Wei , Yunpeng Cai

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 novel incremental learning approach for unsupervised word segmentation that combines features from probabilistic modeling and model selection. This includes super-additive penalties for addressing the cognitive burden imposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Ruey-Cheng Chen

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental computer vision task with a vast number of applications. State of the art methods increasingly rely on deep learning models, known to incorrectly estimate uncertainty and being overconfident in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Luís Almeida , Inês Dutra , Francesco Renna

Unsupervised semantic segmentation is a long-standing challenge in computer vision with great significance. Spectral clustering is a theoretically grounded solution to it where the spectral embeddings for pixels are computed to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhijie Deng , Yucen Luo

Referring medical image segmentation targets delineating lesions indicated by textual descriptions. Aligning visual and textual cues is challenging due to their distinct data properties. Inspired by large-scale pre-trained vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yaxiong Chen , Minghong Wei , Zixuan Zheng , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) aims to train a machine learning model using both labelled and unlabelled data. While the unlabelled data have been used in various ways to improve the prediction accuracy, the reason why unlabelled data could…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Archer Moore , Heejung Shim , Jingge Zhu , Mingming Gong