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Unsupervised image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision. It enables dense scene understanding without human annotations, which is especially valuable in domains where labelled data is scarce. However, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Boujemaa Guermazi , Riadh Ksantini , Naimul Khan

This paper aims to achieve universal segmentation of arbitrary semantic level. Despite significant progress in recent years, specialist segmentation approaches are limited to specific tasks and data distribution. Retraining a new model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Cairong Zhang , Yitong Wang , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang , Yansong Tang

Image segmentation, one of the most critical vision tasks, has been studied for many years. Most of the early algorithms are unsupervised methods, which use hand-crafted features to divide the image into many regions. Recently, owing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qinghong Lin , Weichan Zhong , Jianglin Lu

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to automatically partition images into semantically meaningful regions by identifying global semantic categories within an image corpus without any form of annotation. Building upon recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Oliver Hahn , Nikita Araslanov , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task where classification is performed at a pixel level. Due to this, the process of labeling images for semantic segmentation is time-consuming and expensive. To mitigate this cost there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Javier Montalvo , Álvaro García-Martín , Pablo Carballeira , Juan C. SanMiguel

Existing approaches for the problem of ultrasound image segmentation, whether supervised or semi-supervised, are typically specialized for specific anatomical structures or tasks, limiting their practical utility in clinical settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yaxiong Chen , Qicong Wang , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

We develop and approach to unsupervised semantic medical image segmentation that extends previous work with generative adversarial networks. We use existing edge detection methods to construct simple edge diagrams, train a generative model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Umaseh Sivanesan , Luis H. Braga , Ranil R. Sonnadara , Kiret Dhindsa

While significant attention has been recently focused on designing supervised deep semantic segmentation algorithms for vision tasks, there are many domains in which sufficient supervised pixel-level labels are difficult to obtain. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Xide Xia , Brian Kulis

Weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation methods that require 1\% or fewer labels, hoping to realize almost the same performance as fully supervised approaches, which recently, have attracted extensive research attention. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Tianfang Sun , Zhizhong Zhang , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

Image segmentation is about grouping pixels with different semantics, e.g., category or instance membership, where each choice of semantics defines a task. While only the semantics of each task differ, current research focuses on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Ishan Misra , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov , Rohit Girdhar

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

Video instance segmentation requires classifying, segmenting, and tracking every object across video frames. Unlike existing approaches that rely on masks, boxes, or category labels, we propose UVIS, a novel Unsupervised Video Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Shuaiyi Huang , Saksham Suri , Kamal Gupta , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ser-nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

In recent years, instance segmentation has garnered significant attention across various applications. However, training a fully-supervised instance segmentation model requires costly both instance-level and pixel-level annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuchen Shen , Dong Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Liyong Fu , Qiaolin Ye

In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limits the quantity of labels available for training in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Tarun Kalluri , Girish Varma , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

Unsupervised semantic segmentation (USS) aims to achieve high-quality segmentation without manual pixel-level annotations. Existing USS models provide coarse category classification for regions, but the results often have blurry and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tingting Li , Gensheng Pei , Xinhao Cai , Huafeng Liu , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao

Along with the breakthrough of convolutional neural networks, learning-based segmentation has emerged in many research works. Most of them are based on supervised learning, requiring plenty of annotated data; however, to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Junhuan Yang , Yi Sheng , Yuzhou Zhang , Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang

We present two practical improvement techniques for unsupervised segmentation learning. These techniques address limitations in the resolution and accuracy of predicted segmentation maps of recent state-of-the-art methods. Firstly, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alp Eren Sari , Francesco Locatello , Paolo Favaro

The universal model emerges as a promising trend for medical image segmentation, paving up the way to build medical imaging large model (MILM). One popular strategy to build universal models is to encode each task as a one-hot vector and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Yiwen Ye , Yutong Xie , Jianpeng Zhang , Ziyang Chen , Yong Xia