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Semi-supervised semantic segmentation requires the model to effectively propagate the label information from limited annotated images to unlabeled ones. A challenge for such a per-pixel prediction task is the large intra-class variation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hai-Ming Xu , Lingqiao Liu , Qiuchen Bian , Zhen Yang

We introduce a novel unsupervised loss function for learning semantic segmentation with deep convolutional neural nets (ConvNet) when densely labeled training images are not available. More specifically, the proposed loss function penalizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Mehran Javanmardi , Mehdi Sajjadi , Ting Liu , Tolga Tasdizen

In semi-supervised learning (SSL) for enhancing the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) with unlabeled data, introducing mutually independent decision factors for cross-validation is regarded as an effective strategy to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Long Wang , Kai Liu

The segmentation of the pubic symphysis and fetal head (PSFH) constitutes a pivotal step in monitoring labor progression and identifying potential delivery complications. Despite the advances in deep learning, the lack of annotated medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jianmei Jiang , Huijin Wang , Jieyun Bai , Shun Long , Shuangping Chen , Victor M. Campello , Karim Lekadir

Transvaginal ultrasound is a critical imaging modality for evaluating cervical anatomy and detecting physiological changes. However, accurate segmentation of cervical structures remains challenging due to low contrast, shadow artifacts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Tran Quoc Khanh Le , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Ha-Hieu Pham , Xuan-Loc Huynh , Tien-Huy Nguyen , Minh Huu Nhat Le , Quan Nguyen , Hien D. Nguyen

The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka

Semi-supervised learning has made significant strides in the medical domain since it alleviates the heavy burden of collecting abundant pixel-wise annotated data for semantic segmentation tasks. Existing semi-supervised approaches enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xu Zheng , Chong Fu , Haoyu Xie , Jialei Chen , Xingwei Wang , Chiu-Wing Sham

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn a robust model from source domains that generalize well on unseen target domains. Recent studies focus on generating novel domain samples or features to diversify distributions complementary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Chenming Li , Daoan Zhang , Wenjian Huang , Jianguo Zhang

Deep learning models have achieved significant results across various computer vision tasks. However, due to the large number of parameters in these models, deploying them in real-time scenarios is a critical challenge, specifically in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Amir M. Mansourian , Arya Jalali , Rozhan Ahmadi , Shohreh Kasaei

In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised feature learning framework, namely Deep Sparse Coding (DeepSC), that extends sparse coding to a multi-layer architecture for visual object recognition tasks. The main innovation of the framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Yunlong He , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Yun Wang , Arthur Szlam , Yanjun Qi

Despite the remarkable progress, weakly supervised segmentation approaches are still inferior to their fully supervised counterparts. We obverse the performance gap mainly comes from their limitation on learning to produce high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yunchao Wei , Huaxin Xiao , Honghui Shi , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Thomas S. Huang

The ability to understand visual information from limited labeled data is an important aspect of machine learning. While image-level classification has been extensively studied in a semi-supervised setting, dense pixel-level classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sudhanshu Mittal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Thomas Brox

This work presents a novel approach for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. The key element of this approach is our contrastive learning module that enforces the segmentation network to yield similar pixel-level feature representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Inigo Alonso , Alberto Sabater , David Ferstl , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

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

Semantic segmentation has made tremendous progress in recent years. However, satisfying performance highly depends on a large number of pixel-level annotations. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the semi-supervised segmentation problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Li Jiang , Shu Liu , Hengshuang Zhao , Liwei Wang , Jiaya Jia

Deep learning usually requires large amounts of labeled training data, but annotating data is costly and tedious. The framework of semi-supervised learning provides the means to use both labeled data and arbitrary amounts of unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Christoph Baur , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

Are we using the right potential functions in the Conditional Random Field models that are popular in the Vision community? Semantic segmentation and other pixel-level labelling tasks have made significant progress recently due to the deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Måns Larsson , Anurag Arnab , Fredrik Kahl , Shuai Zheng , Philip Torr

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been proven beneficial for mitigating the issue of limited labeled data especially on the task of volumetric medical image segmentation. Unlike previous SSL methods which focus on exploring highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Qingjie Zeng , Yutong Xie , Zilin Lu , Mengkang Lu , Yong Xia

The performance of supervised deep learning methods for medical image segmentation is often limited by the scarcity of labeled data. As a promising research direction, semi-supervised learning addresses this dilemma by leveraging unlabeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Zihang Liu , Chunhui Zhao

Deep convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation achieve outstanding accuracy, however they also have a couple of major drawbacks: first, they do not generalize well to distributions slightly different from the one of the…

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