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When one wants to train a neural network to perform semantic segmentation, creating pixel-level annotations for each of the images in the database is a tedious task. If he works with aerial or satellite images, which are usually very large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Adrien Nivaggioli , Hicham Randrianarivo

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

An efficient strategy for weakly-supervised segmentation is to impose constraints or regularization priors on target regions. Recent efforts have focused on incorporating such constraints in the training of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Jizong Peng , Hoel Kervadec , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers

Semantic labelling and instance segmentation are two tasks that require particularly costly annotations. Starting from weak supervision in the form of bounding box detection annotations, we propose a new approach that does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Anna Khoreva , Rodrigo Benenson , Jan Hosang , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Autonomous robotic systems applied to new domains require an abundance of expensive, pixel-level dense labels to train robust semantic segmentation models under full supervision. This study proposes a model-agnostic Depth Edge Alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Vasileios Belagiannis , Lazaros Nalpantidis

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

We focus on tackling weakly supervised semantic segmentation with scribble-level annotation. The regularized loss has been proven to be an effective solution for this task. However, most existing regularized losses only leverage static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yao Zhao

Annotating new datasets for machine learning tasks is tedious, time-consuming, and costly. For segmentation applications, the burden is particularly high as manual delineations of relevant image content are often extremely expensive or can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Javier Gamazo Tejero , Martin S. Zinkernagel , Sebastian Wolf , Raphael Sznitman , Pablo Márquez Neila

Deep learning has proven to be an essential tool for medical image analysis. However, the need for accurately labeled input data, often requiring time- and labor-intensive annotation by experts, is a major limitation to the use of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Darvin Yi , Endre Grøvik , Michael Iv , Elizabeth Tong , Greg Zaharchuk , Daniel Rubin

Deep convolutional neural networks have driven substantial advancements in the automatic understanding of images. Requiring a large collection of images and their associated annotations is one of the main bottlenecks limiting the adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zahra Mirikharaji , Yiqi Yan , Ghassan Hamarneh

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has been widely studied to relieve the annotation burden of the traditional segmentation task. In this paper, we show that existing fully-annotated base categories can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Siyuan Zhou , Li Niu , Jianlou Si , Chen Qian , Liqing Zhang

Semantic scene parsing is suffering from the fact that pixel-level annotations are hard to be collected. To tackle this issue, we propose a Point-based Distance Metric Learning (PDML) in this paper. PDML does not require dense annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Rui Qian , Yunchao Wei , Honghui Shi , Jiachen Li , Jiaying Liu , Thomas Huang

Despite great progress in supervised semantic segmentation,a large performance drop is usually observed when deploying the model in the wild. Domain adaptation methods tackle the issue by aligning the source domain and the target domain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haoran Wang , Tong Shen , Wei Zhang , Lingyu Duan , Tao Mei

We propose adversarial constrained-CNN loss, a new paradigm of constrained-CNN loss methods, for weakly supervised medical image segmentation. In the new paradigm, prior knowledge is encoded and depicted by reference masks, and is further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Pengyi Zhang , Yunxin Zhong , Xiaoqiong Li

Deep learning based image segmentation methods have achieved great success, even having human-level accuracy in some applications. However, due to the black box nature of deep learning, the best method may fail in some situations. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Leixin Zhou , Wenxiang Deng , Xiaodong Wu

Trained using only image class label, deep weakly supervised methods allow image classification and ROI segmentation for interpretability. Despite their success on natural images, they face several challenges over histology data where ROI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Soufiane Belharbi , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

In response to the growing importance of geospatial data, its analysis including semantic segmentation becomes an increasingly popular task in computer vision today. Convolutional neural networks are powerful visual models that yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Alexey Bokhovkin , Evgeny Burnaev

Transfer learning is a powerful way to adapt existing deep learning models to new emerging use-cases in remote sensing. Starting from a neural network already trained for semantic segmentation, we propose to modify its label space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Gaston Lenczner , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Nicola Luminari , Bertrand Le Saux

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of imaging and vision. Supervised deep learning for segmentation has achieved unparalleled success when sufficient training data with annotated labels are available. However, annotation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Hongrun Zhang , Liam Burrows , Yanda Meng , Declan Sculthorpe , Abhik Mukherjee , Sarah E Coupland , Ke Chen , Yalin Zheng

Thesedays, Convolutional Neural Networks are widely used in semantic segmentation. However, since CNN-based segmentation networks produce low-resolution outputs with rich semantic information, it is inevitable that spatial details (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Youngeun Kim , Seunghyeon Kim , Taekyung Kim , Changick Kim