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Large annotated datasets are vital for training segmentation models, but pixel-level labeling is time-consuming, error-prone, and often requires scarce expert annotators, especially in medical imaging. In contrast, coarse annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Le Zhang , Fuping Wu , Arun Thirunavukarasu , Kevin Bronik , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Manually annotating object segmentation masks is very time consuming. Interactive object segmentation methods offer a more efficient alternative where a human annotator and a machine segmentation model collaborate. In this paper we make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Rodrigo Benenson , Stefan Popov , Vittorio Ferrari

The existing image feature extraction methods are primarily based on the content and structure information of images, and rarely consider the contextual semantic information. Regarding some types of images such as scenes and objects, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Chiranjibi Sitaula , Yong Xiang , Anish Basnet , Sunil Aryal , Xuequan Lu

The integration of artificial intelligence into digital pathology has the potential to automate and improve various tasks, such as image analysis and diagnostic decision-making. Yet, the inherent variability of tissues, together with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Ariel Larey , Nati Daniel , Eliel Aknin , Yael Fisher , Yonatan Savir

Artificial Intelligence (AI) based image analysis has an immense potential to support diagnostic histopathology, including cancer diagnostics. However, developing supervised AI methods requires large-scale annotated datasets. A potentially…

This paper proposes a novel self-supervised learning method for semantic segmentation using selective masking image reconstruction as the pretraining task. Our proposed method replaces the random masking augmentation used in most masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuemin Wang , Ian Stavness

Realistic synthetic image data rendered from 3D models can be used to augment image sets and train image classification semantic segmentation models. In this work, we explore how high quality physically-based rendering and domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jason W. Anderson , Marcin Ziolkowski , Ken Kennedy , Amy W. Apon

We introduce SketchYourSeg, a novel framework that establishes freehand sketches as a powerful query modality for subjective image segmentation across entire galleries through a single exemplar sketch. Unlike text prompts that struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Subhadeep Koley , Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song

We propose spatially-adaptive normalization, a simple but effective layer for synthesizing photorealistic images given an input semantic layout. Previous methods directly feed the semantic layout as input to the deep network, which is then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Taesung Park , Ming-Yu Liu , Ting-Chun Wang , Jun-Yan Zhu

Obtaining large-scale medical data, annotated or unannotated, is challenging due to stringent privacy regulations and data protection policies. In addition, annotating medical images requires that domain experts manually delineate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tushar Kataria , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Recent advances in deep learning-based object detection techniques have revolutionized their applicability in several fields. However, since these methods rely on unwieldy and large amounts of data, a common practice is to download models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 João Borrego , Atabak Dehban , Rui Figueiredo , Plinio Moreno , Alexandre Bernardino , José Santos-Victor

Purpose: Bone metastasis have a major impact on the quality of life of patients and they are diverse in terms of size and location, making their segmentation complex. Manual segmentation is time-consuming, and expert segmentations are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Emile Saillard , Aurélie Levillain , David Mitton , Jean-Baptiste Pialat , Cyrille Confavreux , Hélène Follet , Thomas Grenier

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image level labels aims to produce pixel level predictions without requiring dense annotations. While recent approaches have leveraged generative models to augment existing data, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Wangyu Wu , Zhenhong Chen , Xiaowei Huang , Fei Ma , Jimin Xiao

Deep neural network-based semantic segmentation generally requires large-scale cost extensive annotations for training to obtain better performance. To avoid pixel-wise segmentation annotations which are needed for most methods, recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian

Recently, increasing attention has been drawn to training semantic segmentation models using synthetic data and computer-generated annotation. However, domain gap remains a major barrier and prevents models learned from synthetic data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Xiaoran Chen , Luc Van Gool

Recently, the progress of learning-by-synthesis has proposed a training model for synthetic images, which can effectively reduce the cost of human and material resources. However, due to the different distribution of synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Jinjia Peng , Huibing Wang , Xianping Fu

We propose Semantic-Fast-SAM (SFS), a semantic segmentation framework that combines the Fast Segment Anything model with a semantic labeling pipeline to achieve real-time performance without sacrificing accuracy. FastSAM is an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byunghyun Kim

Image captioning requires numerous annotated image-text pairs, resulting in substantial annotation costs. Recently, large models (e.g. diffusion models and large language models) have excelled in producing high-quality images and text. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Feipeng Ma , Yizhou Zhou , Fengyun Rao , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

Automatic medical image segmentation plays a critical role in scientific research and medical care. Existing high-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large training datasets with high-quality manual annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shanshan Wang , Cheng Li , Rongpin Wang , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hongna Tan , Yaping Wu , Xinfeng Liu , Hui Sun , Rui Yang , Xin Liu , Jie Chen , Huihui Zhou , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hairong Zheng

In this paper, we present an approach to learning latent semantic analysis models from loosely annotated images for automatic image annotation and indexing. The given annotation in training images is loose due to: (1) ambiguous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-05-30 Hong Tang , Nozha Boujemma , Yunhao Chen