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We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

Surface defect detection plays a critical role in industrial quality inspection. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have significantly enhanced the automation level of detection processes. However, conventional semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hang-Cheng Dong , Lu Zou , Bingguo Liu , Dong Ye , Guodong Liu

Reliable classification and detection of certain medical conditions, in images, with state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, require vast amounts of pixel-wise annotation. However, the public availability of such datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Erik Ostrowski , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Muhammad Shafique

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) techniques explore individual regularization strategies to refine Class Activation Maps (CAMs). In this work, we first analyze complementary WSSS techniques in the literature, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Lucas David , Helio Pedrini , Zanoni Dias

This work addresses the task of completely weakly supervised class-incremental learning for semantic segmentation to learn segmentation for both base and additional novel classes using only image-level labels. While class-incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Minkwan Kim , Soeun Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

Surface cracks are a common sight on public infrastructure nowadays. Recent work has been addressing this problem by supporting structural maintenance measures using machine learning methods. Those methods are used to segment surface cracks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jacob König , Mark Jenkins , Mike Mannion , Peter Barrie , Gordon Morison

Split Federated Learning (SplitFed) combines federated and split learning to preserve privacy while reducing client-side computation. However, in medical image segmentation, heterogeneous label quality across clients can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Zahra Hafezi Kafshgari , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging task aiming to learn the segmentation labels from class-level labels. In the literature, exploiting the information obtained from Class Activation Maps (CAMs) is widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Cenk Bircanoglu , Nafiz Arica

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation has attracted much research interest in recent years considering its advantage of low labeling cost. Most of the advanced algorithms follow the design principle that expands and constrains the seed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Extracting class activation maps (CAM) is arguably the most standard step of generating pseudo masks for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). Yet, we find that the crux of the unsatisfactory pseudo masks is the binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Tan Wang , Xiongwei Wu , Xian-Sheng Hua , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun

High annotation costs are a major bottleneck for the training of semantic segmentation systems. Therefore, methods working with less annotation effort are of special interest. This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Olga Zatsarynna , Johann Sawatzky , Juergen Gall

This work explores the application of Federated Learning (FL) to Unsupervised Semantic image Segmentation (USS). Recent USS methods extract pixel-level features using frozen visual foundation models and refine them through self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Evangelos Charalampakis , Vasileios Mygdalis , Ioannis Pitas

Amid growing demands for data privacy and advances in computational infrastructure, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed learning paradigm. Nevertheless, differences in data distribution (such as covariate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhenyuan Huang , Hui Zhang , Wenzhong Tang , Haijun Yang

Pixel-level vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, require extensive and high-quality annotated data, which is costly to obtain. Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) has emerged as a solution to alleviate the labeling burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Danhui Chen , Ziquan Liu , Chuxi Yang , Dan Wang , Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji

Semi-supervised domain generalization (SSDG) in medical image segmentation offers a promising solution for generalizing to unseen domains during testing, addressing domain shift challenges and minimizing annotation costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jincai Song , Haipeng Chen , Jun Qin , Na Zhao

In many critical applications, sensitive data is inherently distributed and cannot be centralized due to privacy concerns. A wide range of federated learning approaches have been proposed to train models locally at each client without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Amr Abourayya , Jens Kleesiek , Kanishka Rao , Erman Ayday , Bharat Rao , Geoff Webb , Michael Kamp

The success of large language models has inspired the computer vision community to explore image segmentation foundation model that is able to zero/few-shot generalize through prompt engineering. Segment-Anything(SAM), among others, is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Haojie Zhang , Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

We propose a simple, data-efficient pipeline that augments an implicit reconstruction network based on neural SDF-based CAD parts with a part-segmentation head trained under PartField-generated supervision. Unlike methods tied to fixed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shen Fan , Przemyslaw Musialski

3D point cloud semantic segmentation has a wide range of applications. Recently, weakly supervised point cloud segmentation methods have been proposed, aiming to alleviate the expensive and laborious manual annotation process by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xiawei Li , Qingyuan Xu , Jing Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu