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Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) based on image-level labels has attracted much attention due to low annotation costs. Existing methods often rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) that measures the correlation between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qi Chen , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS), which relies only on image-level labels, has attracted significant attention for its cost-effectiveness and scalability. Existing methods mainly enhance inter-class distinctions and employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yiyang Fu , Hui Li , Wangyu Wu

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS), which leverages image-level labels, has garnered significant attention due to its cost-effectiveness. The previous methods mainly strengthen the inter-class differences to avoid class semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Wangyu Wu , Xianglin Qiu , Siqi Song , Xiaowei Huang , Fei Ma , Jimin Xiao

We address the problem of weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using bounding box annotations. Although object bounding boxes are good indicators to segment corresponding objects, they do not specify object boundaries, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Youngmin Oh , Beomjun Kim , Bumsub Ham

Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

The rapid development of deep learning has driven significant progress in image semantic segmentation - a fundamental task in computer vision. Semantic segmentation algorithms often depend on the availability of pixel-level labels (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

Existing studies in weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) have utilized class activation maps (CAMs) to localize the class objects. However, since a classification loss is insufficient for providing precise object regions, CAMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sung-Hoon Yoon , Hyeokjun Kweon , Jaeseok Jeong , Hyeonseong Kim , Shinjeong Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun

Semi-weakly supervised semantic segmentation (SWSSS) aims to train a model to identify objects in images based on a small number of images with pixel-level labels, and many more images with only image-level labels. Most existing SWSSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wonho Bae , Junhyug Noh , Milad Jalali Asadabadi , Danica J. Sutherland

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS), a fundamental computer vision task, which aims to segment out the object within only class-level labels. The traditional methods adopt the CNN-based network and utilize the class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

Collecting labeled data for the task of semantic segmentation is expensive and time-consuming, as it requires dense pixel-level annotations. While recent Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based semantic segmentation approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xiangyun Zhao , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Philip Mansfield , Boqing Gong , Bradley Green , Lior Shapira , Ying Wu

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) performs pixel-wise classification given only image-level labels for training. Despite the difficulty of this task, the research community has achieved promising results over the last five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Cheolhyun Mun , Sanghuk Lee , Youngjung Uh , Junsuk Choe , Hyeran Byun

Whole-slide image (WSI) analysis plays a crucial role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. In addressing the demands of this critical task, self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have emerged as a valuable resource, leveraging their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Gia-Bao Le , Van-Tien Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Minh-Triet Tran

Digital histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) provide gigapixel-scale high-resolution images that are highly useful for disease diagnosis. However, digital histopathology image analysis faces significant challenges due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bodong Zhang , Xiwen Li , Hamid Manoochehri , Xiaoya Tang , Deepika Sirohi , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) is a task that detects objects in an image using a model trained only on image-level annotations. Current state-of-the-art models benefit from self-supervised instance-level supervision, but since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jinhwan Seo , Wonho Bae , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh , Daijin Kim

Semantic segmentation has been continuously investigated in the last ten years, and majority of the established technologies are based on supervised models. In recent years, image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Peng Zhu , Tianyang Zhang , Chen Li , Huiyu Zhou , Licheng Jiao

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Compared to conventional semantic segmentation with pixel-level supervision, Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels poses the challenge that it always focuses on the most discriminative regions, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jingxuan He , Lechao Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Zunlei Feng , Tingting Mu , Mingli Song

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) models are trained using only image-level class labels. They can predict both the object class and spatial regions corresponding to the object, without requiring explicit bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Alexis Guichemerre , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger