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Unsupervised machine learning, and in particular data clustering, is a powerful approach for the analysis of datasets and identification of characteristic features occurring throughout a dataset. It is gaining popularity across scientific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Maria El Abbassi , Jan Overbeck , Oliver Braun , Michel Calame , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Mickael L. Perrin

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to discover and localize semantically meaningful categories within image corpora without any form of annotation. To solve this task, algorithms must produce features for every pixel that are both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mark Hamilton , Zhoutong Zhang , Bharath Hariharan , Noah Snavely , William T. Freeman

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Recent studies on semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSS) have seen fast progress. Despite their promising performance, current state-of-the-art methods tend to increasingly complex designs at the cost of introducing more network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Zhen Zhao , Lihe Yang , Sifan Long , Jimin Pi , Luping Zhou , Jingdong Wang

Semantic segmentation is a critical step in automated image interpretation and analysis where pixels are classified into one or more predefined semantically meaningful classes. Deep learning approaches for semantic segmentation rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tushar Kataria , Beatrice Knudsen , Shireen Elhabian

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Deep learning frameworks allowed for a remarkable advancement in semantic segmentation, but the data hungry nature of convolutional networks has rapidly raised the demand for adaptation techniques able to transfer learned knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Marco Toldo , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Progress in sentence simplification has been hindered by a lack of labeled parallel simplification data, particularly in languages other than English. We introduce MUSS, a Multilingual Unsupervised Sentence Simplification system that does…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Louis Martin , Angela Fan , Éric de la Clergerie , Antoine Bordes , Benoît Sagot

We introduce a new setting of Novel Class Discovery in Semantic Segmentation (NCDSS), which aims at segmenting unlabeled images containing new classes given prior knowledge from a labeled set of disjoint classes. In contrast to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yuyang Zhao , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Gim Hee Lee

Semi-supervised learning is increasingly popular in medical image segmentation due to its ability to leverage large amounts of unlabeled data to extract additional information. However, most existing semi-supervised segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Rong Wu , Dehua Li , Cong Zhang

Consistency regularization describes a class of approaches that have yielded ground breaking results in semi-supervised classification problems. Prior work has established the cluster assumption - under which the data distribution consists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Geoff French , Samuli Laine , Timo Aila , Michal Mackiewicz , Graham Finlayson

Ultrasound imaging is challenging to interpret due to non-uniform intensities, low contrast, and inherent artifacts, necessitating extensive training for non-specialists. Advanced representation with clear tissue structure separation could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Oleksandra Tmenova , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Nassir Navab

The generalization ability of deep learning has been extensively studied in supervised settings, yet it remains less explored in unsupervised scenarios. Recently, the Unsupervised Domain Generalization (UDG) task has been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tan Pan , Kaiyu Guo , Dongli Xu , Zhaorui Tan , Chen Jiang , Deshu Chen , Xin Guo , Brian C. Lovell , Limei Han , Yuan Cheng , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

We propose a new fast fully unsupervised method to discover semantic patterns. Our algorithm is able to hierarchically find visual categories and produce a segmentation mask where previous methods fail. Through the modeling of what is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Francesco Pelosin , Andrea Gasparetto , Andrea Albarelli , Andrea Torsello

This paper introduces a solid state-of-the-art baseline for a class-incremental semantic segmentation (CISS) problem. While the recent CISS algorithms utilize variants of the knowledge distillation (KD) technique to tackle the problem, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Sungmin Cha , Beomyoung Kim , Youngjoon Yoo , Taesup Moon

Semantic segmentation plays a fundamental role in a broad variety of computer vision applications, providing key information for the global understanding of an image. Yet, the state-of-the-art models rely on large amount of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Gabriela Csurka , Riccardo Volpi , Boris Chidlovskii

Traditionally, algorithms that learn to segment object instances in 2D images have heavily relied on large amounts of human-annotated data. Only recently, novel approaches have emerged tackling this problem in an unsupervised fashion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Semantic segmentation using convolutional neural networks (CNN) is a crucial component in image analysis. Training a CNN to perform semantic segmentation requires a large amount of labeled data, where the production of such labeled data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ying Chen , Xu Ouyang , Kaiyue Zhu , Gady Agam

Unlabeled data learning has attracted considerable attention recently. However, it is still elusive to extract the expected high-level semantic feature with mere unsupervised learning. In the meantime, semi-supervised learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

Traditionally, training neural networks to perform semantic segmentation required expensive human-made annotations. But more recently, advances in the field of unsupervised learning have made significant progress on this issue and towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski