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Semantic segmentation of low-altitude UAV imagery presents unique challenges due to extreme scale variations, complex object boundaries, and limited computational resources on edge devices. Existing transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Da Zhang , Gao Junyu , Zhao Zhiyuan

It is challenging for weakly supervised object detection network to precisely predict the positions of the objects, since there are no instance-level category annotations. Most existing methods tend to solve this problem by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ke Yang , Dongsheng Li , Yong Dou

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

Weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation is essential for 3D scene understanding, especially as the growing scale of data and high annotation costs associated with fully supervised approaches. Existing methods primarily rely on two forms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Xu Wang

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

In minimally invasive surgery, surgical instrument localization is a crucial task for endoscopic videos, which enables various applications for improving surgical outcomes. However, annotating the instrument localization in endoscopic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Rongfeng Wei , Jinlin Wu , Xuexue Bai , Ming Feng , Zhen Lei , Hongbin Liu , Zhen Chen

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a task that aims to segment the target object in all video frames based on a sentence describing the object. Although existing RVOS methods have achieved significant performance, they depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wangbo Zhao , Kepan Nan , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Yang You

We study the problem of weakly semi-supervised object detection with points (WSSOD-P), where the training data is combined by a small set of fully annotated images with bounding boxes and a large set of weakly-labeled images with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shilong Zhang , Zhuoran Yu , Liyang Liu , Xinjiang Wang , Aojun Zhou , Kai Chen

Volumetric lesion segmentation via medical imaging is a powerful means to precisely assess multiple time-point lesion/tumor changes. Because manual 3D segmentation is prohibitively time consuming and requires radiological experience,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Jinzheng Cai , Youbao Tang , Le Lu , Adam P. Harrison , Ke Yan , Jing Xiao , Lin Yang , Ronald M. Summers

Annotation of medical images, such as MRI and CT scans, is crucial for evaluating treatment efficacy and planning radiotherapy. However, the extensive workload of medical professionals limits their ability to annotate large image datasets,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Eichi Takaya , Shinnosuke Yamamoto

Cell shape analysis is important in biomedical research. Deep learning methods may perform to segment individual cells if they use sufficient training data that the boundary of each cell is annotated. However, it is very time-consuming for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Kazuya Nishimura , Dai Fei Elmer Ker , Ryoma Bise

Segmentation for tracking surgical instruments plays an important role in robot-assisted surgery. Segmentation of surgical instruments contributes to capturing accurate spatial information for tracking. In this paper, a novel network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Zhen-Liang Ni , Gui-Bin Bian , Xiao-Liang Xie , Zeng-Guang Hou , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Yan-Jie Zhou

Few-shot instance segmentation extends the few-shot learning paradigm to the instance segmentation task, which tries to segment instance objects from a query image with a few annotated examples of novel categories. Conventional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Minh-Quan Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Thanh-Toan Do , Minh N. Do , Minh-Triet Tran

Image segmentation methods are usually trained with pixel-level annotations, which require significant human effort to collect. The most common solution to address this constraint is to implement weakly-supervised pipelines trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Weakly supervised visual recognition using inexact supervision is a critical yet challenging learning problem. It significantly reduces human labeling costs and traditionally relies on multi-instance learning and pseudo-labeling. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lianghui Zhu , Junwei Zhou , Yan Liu , Xin Hao , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

We propose instance segmentation as a useful tool for image analysis in materials science. Instance segmentation is an advanced technique in computer vision which generates individual segmentation masks for every object of interest that is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-06 Ryan Cohn , Iver Anderson , Tim Prost , Jordan Tiarks , Emma White , Elizabeth Holm

Point-based interactive image segmentation can ease the burden of mask annotation in applications such as semantic segmentation and image editing. However, fully extracting the target mask with limited user inputs remains challenging. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chaowei Fang , Ziyin Zhou , Junye Chen , Hanjing Su , Qingyao Wu , Guanbin Li

Segmentation of surgical instruments is crucial for enhancing surgeon performance and ensuring patient safety. Conventional techniques such as binary, semantic, and instance segmentation share a common drawback: they do not accommodate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ruohua Shi , Zhaochen Liu , Lingyu Duan , Tingting Jiang

Hispathological image segmentation algorithms play a critical role in computer aided diagnosis technology. The development of weakly supervised segmentation algorithm alleviates the problem of medical image annotation that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ziniu Qian , Kailu Li , Maode Lai , Eric I-Chao Chang , Bingzheng Wei , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

Accurate segmentation of organelle instances, e.g., mitochondria, is essential for electron microscopy analysis. Despite the outstanding performance of fully supervised methods, they highly rely on sufficient per-pixel annotated data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Dafei Qiu , Jiajin Yi , Jialin Peng