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The goal of interactive segmentation is to assist users in producing segmentation masks as fast and as accurately as possible. Interactions have to be simple and intuitive and the number of interactions required to produce a satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Camille Dupont , Yanis Ouakrim , Quoc Cuong Pham

\textcolor{blue}{This is the pre-acceptance version, to read the final version please go to \href{https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11156113}{IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing on IEEE Xplore}.} Infrared small target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Guoyi Zhang , Guangsheng Xu , Siyang Chen , Han Wang , Xiaohu Zhang

The goal of click-based interactive image segmentation is to obtain precise object segmentation masks with limited user interaction, i.e., by a minimal number of user clicks. Existing methods require users to provide all the clicks: by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Qin Liu , Meng Zheng , Benjamin Planche , Srikrishna Karanam , Terrence Chen , Marc Niethammer , Ziyan Wu

LiDAR-based outdoor 3D object detection has received widespread attention. However, training 3D detectors from the LiDAR point cloud typically relies on expensive bounding box annotations. This paper presents SC3D, an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Qiming Xia , Hongwei Lin , Wei Ye , Hai Wu , Yadan Luo , Cheng Wang , Chenglu Wen

Nuclei segmentation is one of the important tasks for whole slide image analysis in digital pathology. With the drastic advance of deep learning, recent deep networks have demonstrated successful performance of the nuclei segmentation task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Inwan Yoo , Donggeun Yoo , Kyunghyun Paeng

Manually annotating object segmentation masks is very time-consuming. While interactive segmentation methods offer a more efficient alternative, they become unaffordable at a large scale because the cost grows linearly with the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Ethan Weber , Antonio Torralba

Infrared small target sequences exhibit strong similarities between frames and contain rich contextual information, which motivates us to achieve sequential infrared small target segmentation (IRSTS) with minimal data. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Bingbing Dan , Meihui Li , Tao Tang , Jing Zhang

Infrared small target detection(IRSTD) is widely recognized as a challenging task due to the inherent limitations of infrared imaging, including low signal-to-noise ratios, lack of texture details, and complex background interference. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yuxin Jing , Yuchen Zheng , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui , Tianpei Zhang

Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection aims to recognize small targets from clutter backgrounds. Recently, convolutional neural networks have achieved significant advantages in general object detection. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Yahao Lu , Yupei Lin , Han Wu , Xiaoyu Xian , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

With the advancement of aerospace technology and the increasing demands of military applications, the development of low false-alarm and high-precision infrared small target detection algorithms has emerged as a key focus of research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Taoran Yue , Xiaojin Lu , Jiaxi Cai , Yuanping Chen , Shibing Chu

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is challenging due to complex backgrounds, low signal-to-clutter ratios, and varying target sizes and shapes. Effective detection relies on capturing local contextual information at the appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Guoyi Zhang , Guangsheng Xu , Han Wang , Siyang Chen , Yunxiao Shan , Xiaohu Zhang

Infrared small target detection is crucial for remote sensing applications like disaster warning and maritime surveillance. However, due to the lack of distinctive texture and morphological features, infrared small targets are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiayi Zuo , Songwei Pei , Qian Li

For best performance, today's semantic segmentation methods use large and carefully labeled datasets, requiring expensive annotation budgets. In this work, we show that coarse annotation is a low-cost but highly effective alternative for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Anurag Das , Yongqin Xian , Yang He , Zeynep Akata , Bernt Schiele

Interactive segmentation enables users to extract binary masks of target objects through simple interactions such as clicks, scribbles, and boxes. However, existing methods often support only limited interaction forms and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xi Chen , Hengshuang Zhao

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task in digital pathology analysis and can be automated by deep learning-based methods. However, the development of such an automated method requires a large amount of data with precisely annotated masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Jiangbo Shi , Chang Jia , Zeyu Gao , Tieliang Gong , Chunbao Wang , Chen Li

Object detectors usually achieve promising results with the supervision of complete instance annotations. However, their performance is far from satisfactory with sparse instance annotations. Most existing methods for sparsely annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Tiancai Wang , Tong Yang , Jiale Cao , Xiangyu Zhang

Deep learning models are the state-of-the-art methods for semantic point cloud segmentation, the success of which relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. However, it can be extremely time-consuming and prohibitively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xian Shi , Xun Xu , Ke Chen , Lile Cai , Chuan Sheng Foo , Kui Jia

Instance segmentation methods often require costly per-pixel labels. We propose a method that only requires point-level annotations. During training, the model only has access to a single pixel label per object, yet the task is to output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Issam H. Laradji , Negar Rostamzadeh , Pedro O. Pinheiro , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt

Annotating tens or hundreds of tiny objects in a given image is laborious yet crucial for a multitude of Computer Vision tasks. Such imagery typically contains objects from various categories, yet the multi-class interactive annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chunggi Lee , Seonwook Park , Heon Song , Jeongun Ryu , Sanghoon Kim , Haejoon Kim , Sérgio Pereira , Donggeun Yoo

3D semantic scene understanding tasks have achieved great success with the emergence of deep learning, but often require a huge amount of manually annotated training data. To alleviate the annotation cost, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shichao Dong , Guosheng Lin