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3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

This paper addresses weakly supervised object detection with only image-level supervision at training stage. Previous approaches train detection models with entire images all at once, making the models prone to being trapped in sub-optimums…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Xiaopeng Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Local feature detection and description play an important role in many computer vision tasks, which are designed to detect and describe keypoints in "any scene" and "any downstream task". Data-driven local feature learning methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jingqian Wu , Rongtao Xu , Zach Wood-Doughty , Changwei Wang , Shibiao Xu , Edmund Y. Lam

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) aims to tackle the object detection problem using only labeled image categories as supervision. A common approach used in WSOD to deal with the lack of localization information is Multiple Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Luis Felipe Zeni , Claudio Jung

Acquiring sufficient ground-truth supervision to train deep visual models has been a bottleneck over the years due to the data-hungry nature of deep learning. This is exacerbated in some structured prediction tasks, such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Xueyi Li , Tianfei Zhou , Jianwu Li , Yi Zhou , Zhaoxiang Zhang

State-of-the-art visual recognition and detection systems increasingly rely on large amounts of training data and complex classifiers. Therefore it becomes increasingly expensive both to manually annotate datasets and to keep running times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Stefan Mathe , Cristian Sminchisescu

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) addresses the challenge of training segmentation models using only image-level annotations. Existing WSSS methods struggle with precise object boundary localization and focus only on the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ali Torabi , Sanjog Gaihre , MD Mahbubur Rahman , Yaqoob Majeed

Existing salient instance detection (SID) methods typically learn from pixel-level annotated datasets. In this paper, we present the first weakly-supervised approach to the SID problem. Although weak supervision has been considered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has achieved remarkable successes in the realm of natural image segmentation, but its deployment in the medical imaging sphere has encountered challenges. Specifically, the model struggles with medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Shreyank N Gowda , David A. Clifton

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims at predicting object locations in an image using only image-level category labels. Common challenges that image classification models encounter when localizing objects are, (a) they tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Saurav Gupta , Sourav Lakhotia , Abhay Rawat , Rahul Tallamraju

Recently, the first foundation model developed specifically for image segmentation tasks was developed, termed the "Segment Anything Model" (SAM). SAM can segment objects in input imagery based on cheap input prompts, such as one (or more)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Simiao Ren , Francesco Luzi , Saad Lahrichi , Kaleb Kassaw , Leslie M. Collins , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised semantic segmentation approach for food images which takes advantage of the zero-shot capabilities and promptability of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) along with the attention mechanisms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos , Anastasios Delopoulos

Weakly supervised monocular 3D detection, while less annotation-intensive, often struggles to capture the global context required for reliable 3D reasoning. Conventional label-efficient methods focus on object-centric features, neglecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chupeng Liu , Runkai Zhao , Weidong Cai

Weakly supervised learning of object detection is an important problem in image understanding that still does not have a satisfactory solution. In this paper, we address this problem by exploiting the power of deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) approaches typically rely on class activation maps (CAMs) for initial seed generation, which often fail to capture global context due to limited supervision from image-level labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soojin Jang , Jungmin Yun , Junehyoung Kwon , Eunju Lee , Youngbin Kim

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) marks a significant advancement in segmentation models, offering robust zero-shot abilities and dynamic prompting. However, existing medical SAMs are not suitable for the multi-scale nature of whole-slide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hong Liu , Haosen Yang , Paul J. van Diest , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta

Increasing attention is being diverted to data-efficient problem settings like Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) which deals with segmenting an arbitrary object that may or may not be seen during training. The closest standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Prashant Pandey , Mustafa Chasmai , Monish Natarajan , Brejesh Lall

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a compelling tool for object detection by reducing the need for strong supervision during training. However, major challenges remain: (1) differentiation of object instances can be ambiguous; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhongzheng Ren , Zhiding Yu , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Yong Jae Lee , Alexander G. Schwing , Jan Kautz

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation aims to reduce labeling costs by training semantic segmentation models using weak supervision, such as image-level class labels. However, most approaches struggle to produce accurate localization maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Sanghyun Jo , In-Jae Yu , Kyungsu Kim

Sparse labels have been attracting much attention in recent years. However, the performance gap between weakly supervised and fully supervised salient object detection methods is huge, and most previous weakly supervised works adopt complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Siyue Yu , Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Eng Gee Lim