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Instance segmentation of surgical instruments is a long-standing research problem, crucial for the development of many applications for computer-assisted surgery. This problem is commonly tackled via fully-supervised training of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Luca Sestini , Benoit Rosa , Elena De Momi , Giancarlo Ferrigno , Nicolas Padoy

We propose a method to annotate segmentation masks accurately and automatically using invisible marker for object manipulation. Invisible marker is invisible under visible (regular) light conditions, but becomes visible under invisible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Kuniyuki Takahashi , Kenta Yonekura

Precise boundary annotations of image regions can be crucial for downstream applications which rely on region-class semantics. Some document collections contain densely laid out, highly irregular and overlapping multi-class region instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Abhishek Trivedi , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for semantic segmentation typically requires to collect a large amount of accurate pixel-level annotations, a hard and expensive task. In contrast, simple image tags are easier to gather. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Carolina Redondo-Cabrera , Marcos Baptista-Ríos , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Intra-operative ultrasound is an increasingly important imaging modality in neurosurgery. However, manual interaction with imaging data during the procedures, for example to select landmarks or perform segmentation, is difficult and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Julia Rackerseder , Rüdiger Göbl , Nassir Navab , Christoph Hennersperger

Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

High-quality training data play a key role in image segmentation tasks. Usually, pixel-level annotations are expensive, laborious and time-consuming for the large volume of training data. To reduce labelling cost and improve segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuying Hao , Yi Liu , Zewu Wu , Lin Han , Yizhou Chen , Guowei Chen , Lutao Chu , Shiyu Tang , Zhiliang Yu , Zeyu Chen , Baohua Lai

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

We propose a new approach to interactive full-image semantic segmentation which enables quickly collecting training data for new datasets with previously unseen semantic classes (A demo is available at https://youtu.be/yUk8D5gEX-o). We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Mykhaylo Andriluka , Stefano Pellegrini , Stefan Popov , Vittorio Ferrari

Compared with tedious per-pixel mask annotating, it is much easier to annotate data by clicks, which costs only several seconds for an image. However, applying clicks to learn video semantic segmentation model has not been explored before.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Peidong Liu , Zibin He , Xiyu Yan , Yong Jiang , Shutao Xia , Feng Zheng , Maowei Hu

Despite the great progress made by deep CNNs in image semantic segmentation, they typically require a large number of densely-annotated images for training and are difficult to generalize to unseen object categories. Few-shot segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Kaixin Wang , Jun Hao Liew , Yingtian Zou , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has become a promising solution to alleviate the annotation burden of deep learning-based medical image segmentation models. While recent advances in foundation model-driven SSL have pushed the boundary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yichi Zhang , Le Xue , Bichun Xu , Judong Luo , Zhigang Wu , Yu Fu , Zixin Hu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in biomedical image analysis. Recent advances in deep learning have achieved promising results on many biomedical image segmentation benchmarks. However, due to large variations in biomedical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Lin Yang , Yizhe Zhang , Jianxu Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Danny Z. Chen

Semantic segmentation is the task of classifying each pixel in an image. Training a segmentation model achieves best results using annotated images, where each pixel is annotated with the corresponding class. When obtaining fine annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jort de Jong , Mike Holenderski

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

The semantic image segmentation task presents a trade-off between test time accuracy and training-time annotation cost. Detailed per-pixel annotations enable training accurate models but are very time-consuming to obtain, image-level class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Amy Bearman , Olga Russakovsky , Vittorio Ferrari , Li Fei-Fei

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Semantic segmentation aims to robustly predict coherent class labels for entire regions of an image. It is a scene understanding task that powers real-world applications (e.g., autonomous navigation). One important application, the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuxiang Zhang , Sachin Mehta , Anat Caspi

Manually annotating object segmentation masks is very time-consuming. While interactive segmentation methods offer a more efficient alternative, they become unaffordable at a large scale because the cost grows linearly with the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Ethan Weber , Antonio Torralba

Semantic segmentation plays an important role in intelligent vehicles, providing pixel-level semantic information about the environment. However, the labeling budget is expensive and time-consuming when semantic segmentation model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weihao Yan , Yeqiang Qian , Yueyuan Li , Tao Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang