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Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

Semantic segmentation is the problem of assigning a class label to every pixel in an image, and is an important component of an autonomous vehicle vision stack for facilitating scene understanding and object detection. However, many of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

Methods that move towards less supervised scenarios are key for image segmentation, as dense labels demand significant human intervention. Generally, the annotation burden is mitigated by labeling datasets with weaker forms of supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Semantic mapping based on the supervised object detectors is sensitive to image distribution. In real-world environments, the object detection and segmentation performance can lead to a major drop, preventing the use of semantic mapping in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Chuhao Liu , Ke Wang , Jieqi Shi , Zhijian Qiao , Shaojie Shen

Accurately segmenting objects without any manual annotations remains one of the core challenges in computer vision. In this work, we introduce Selfment, a fully self-supervised framework that segments foreground objects directly from raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zuyao You , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We explore the transformative potential of SAM 2, a vision foundation model, in advancing gaze estimation and eye tracking technologies. By significantly reducing annotation time, lowering technical barriers through its ease of deployment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Virmarie Maquiling , Sean Anthony Byrne , Diederick C. Niehorster , Marco Carminati , Enkelejda Kasneci

In recent years, computer vision has transformed fields such as medical imaging, object recognition, and geospatial analytics. One of the fundamental tasks in computer vision is semantic image segmentation, which is vital for precise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dinar Sharafutdinov , Stanislav Kuskov , Saian Protasov , Alexey Voropaev

Open-vocabulary instance segmentation aims at segmenting novel classes without mask annotations. It is an important step toward reducing laborious human supervision. Most existing works first pretrain a model on captioned images covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dat Huynh , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Jiuxiang Gu , Ehsan Elhamifar

Detecting semantic parts of an object is a challenging task in computer vision, particularly because it is hard to construct large annotated datasets due to the difficulty of annotating semantic parts. In this paper we present an approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Yutong Bai , Qing Liu , Lingxi Xie , Weichao Qiu , Yan Zheng , Alan Yuille

Adnexal mass evaluation via ultrasound is a challenging clinical task, often hindered by subjective interpretation and significant inter-observer variability. While automated segmentation is a foundational step for quantitative risk…

Dense semantic segmentation is essential for autonomous driving, yet many multi-modal datasets lack pixel-level annotations. The Zenseact Open Dataset (ZOD) provides rich multi-sensor data but only bounding-box labels, limiting its use for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Toomas Tahves , Mauro Bellone , Junyi Gu , Raivo Sell

Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaochuan Ma , Jia Fu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang

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

Models based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly improved the performance of semantic segmentation. However, learning these models requires a large amount of training images with pixel-level labels, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task for robot navigation and safety. However, it requires huge amounts of pixelwise annotations to yield accurate results. While recent progress in computer vision algorithms has been heavily boosted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Alina Marcu , Dragos Costea , Vlad Licaret , Marius Leordeanu

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation typically requires large amount of labeled data for training, making it less applicable in clinical settings due to high annotation cost. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Yichi Zhang , Bohao Lv , Le Xue , Wenbo Zhang , Yuchen Liu , Yu Fu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Generalized Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation aims to segment both seen and unseen categories only under the supervision of the seen ones. To tackle this, existing methods adopt the large-scale Vision Language Models (VLMs) which obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jialei Chen , Daisuke Deguchi , Chenkai Zhang , Xu Zheng , Hiroshi Murase

Pixel-level annotation demands expensive human efforts and limits the performance of deep networks that usually benefits from more such training data. In this work we aim to achieve high quality instance and semantic segmentation results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Chuang Niu , Shenghan Ren , Jimin Liang

The goal of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localize and segment the sounding source objects from video frames. Research on AVS suffers from data scarcity due to the high cost of fine-grained manual annotations. Recent works attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kyungbok Lee , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

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