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When performing classification tasks, raw high dimensional features often contain redundant information, and lead to increased computational complexity and overfitting. In this paper, we assume the data samples lie on a single underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Bowen Jiang , Maohao Shen

Semantic segmentation on 3D point clouds is an important task for 3D scene understanding. While dense labeling on 3D data is expensive and time-consuming, only a few works address weakly supervised semantic point cloud segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiacheng Wei , Guosheng Lin , Kim-Hui Yap , Fayao Liu , Tzu-Yi Hung

In this paper, we propose a new framework for segmenting feature-based moving objects under affine subspace model. Since the feature trajectories in practice are high-dimensional and contain a lot of noise, we firstly apply the sparse PCA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Michael Ying Yang , Hanno Ackermann , Weiyao Lin , Sitong Feng , Bodo Rosenhahn

This paper proposes a new parallel approach to solve connected components on a 2D binary image implemented with CUDA. We employ the following strategies to accelerate neighborhood exploration after dividing an input image into independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Jun Chen , Keisuke Nonaka , Ryosuke Watanabe , Hiroshi Sankoh , Houari Sabirin , Sei Naito

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to bypass the need for laborious pixel-level annotation by using only image-level annotation. Most existing methods rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) to derive pixel-level pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tianle Chen , Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Wei-lun Chao

We argue that existing training-free segmentation methods rely on an implicit and limiting assumption, that segmentation is a spectral graph partitioning problem over diffusion-derived affinities. Such approaches, based on global graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kunal Mahatha , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

Despite the success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. The fact is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jialin Shi , Ji Wu

We address the problem of minimizing a class of energy functions consisting of data and smoothness terms that commonly occur in machine learning, computer vision, and pattern recognition. While discrete optimization methods are able to give…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zhakshylyk Nurlanov , Daniel Cremers , Florian Bernard

Pixel-level labels are particularly expensive to acquire. Hence, pretraining is a critical step to improve models on a task like semantic segmentation. However, prominent algorithms for pretraining neural networks use image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mathilde Caron , Neil Houlsby , Cordelia Schmid

Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

A major obstacle in instance segmentation is that existing methods often need many per-pixel labels in order to be effective. These labels require large human effort and for certain applications, such labels are not readily available. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Issam H. Laradji , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt

In a setting where segmentation models have to be built for multiple datasets, each with its own corresponding label set, a straightforward way is to learn one model for every dataset and its labels. Alternatively, multi-task architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Deepa Anand , Bipul Das , Vyshnav Dangeti , Antony Jerald , Rakesh Mullick , Uday Patil , Pakhi Sharma , Prasad Sudhakar

Large scale object detection with thousands of classes introduces the problem of many contradicting false positive detections, which have to be suppressed. Class-independent non-maximum suppression has traditionally been used for this step,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Damian Mrowca , Marcus Rohrbach , Judy Hoffman , Ronghang Hu , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell

We motivate weakly supervised learning as an effective learning paradigm for problems where curating perfectly annotated datasets is expensive and may require domain expertise such as fine-grained classification. We focus on Partial Label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Darshana Saravanan , Naresh Manwani , Vineet Gandhi

This paper investigates the computational complexity of sparse label propagation which has been proposed recently for processing network structured data. Sparse label propagation amounts to a convex optimization problem and might be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-30 Alexander Jung

In semantic segmentation, the accuracy of models heavily depends on the high-quality annotations. However, in many practical scenarios, such as medical imaging and remote sensing, obtaining true annotations is not straightforward and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ryu Tadokoro , Tsukasa Takagi , Shin-ichi Maeda

Semi-supervised instance segmentation poses challenges due to limited labeled data, causing difficulties in accurately localizing distinct object instances. Current teacher-student frameworks still suffer from performance constraints due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Heeji Yoon , Heeseong Shin , Eunbeen Hong , Hyunwook Choi , Hansang Cho , Daun Jeong , Seungryong Kim

Based on the observation that semantic segmentation errors are partially predictable, we propose a compact formulation using confusion statistics of the trained classifier to refine (re-estimate) the initial pixel label hypotheses. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 James W. Davis , Christopher Menart , Muhammad Akbar , Roman Ilin

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems of network analysis, for which a number of methods have been proposed. Most model-based or criteria-based methods have to solve an optimization problem over a discrete set of labels to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-12 Can M. Le , Elizaveta Levina , Roman Vershynin

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb