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Creating labeled training sets has become one of the major roadblocks in machine learning. To address this, recent \emph{Weak Supervision (WS)} frameworks synthesize training labels from multiple potentially noisy supervision sources.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jieyu Zhang , Bohan Wang , Xiangchen Song , Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Jing Bai , Alexander Ratner

Current state-of-the-art methods for object detection rely on annotated bounding boxes of large data sets for training. However, obtaining such annotations is expensive and can require up to hundreds of hours of manual labor. This poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hannah Kniesel , Leon Sick , Tristan Payer , Tim Bergner , Kavitha Shaga Devan , Clarissa Read , Paul Walther , Timo Ropinski

Despite the advancements in deep learning for camera relocalization tasks, obtaining ground truth pose labels required for the training process remains a costly endeavor. While current weakly supervised methods excel in lightweight label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jialu Wang , Kaichen Zhou , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang

Point supervision has become a scalable solution to address dense annotation for infrared small target detection, but its performance is limited by two coupled bottlenecks: unstable pseudo-label evolution in cluttered, low-contrast infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhu Liu , Yuanhang Yao , Ping Qian , Zihang Chen , Risheng Liu

Programmatic Weak Supervision (PWS) enables supervised model training without direct access to ground truth labels, utilizing weak labels from heuristics, crowdsourcing, or pre-trained models. However, the absence of ground truth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-01 Felipe Maia Polo , Subha Maity , Mikhail Yurochkin , Moulinath Banerjee , Yuekai Sun

Detection of anomalous events in videos is an important problem in applications such as surveillance. Video anomaly detection (VAD) is well-studied in the one-class classification (OCC) and weakly supervised (WS) settings. However, fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Anas Al-lahham , Nurbek Tastan , Zaigham Zaheer , Karthik Nandakumar

Weakly-Supervised Concealed Object Segmentation (WSCOS) aims to segment objects well blended with surrounding environments using sparsely-annotated data for model training. It remains a challenging task since (1) it is hard to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Guoxia Xu , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

This paper proposes a novel method of learning by predicting view assignments with support samples (PAWS). The method trains a model to minimize a consistency loss, which ensures that different views of the same unlabeled instance are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Mahmoud Assran , Mathilde Caron , Ishan Misra , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Nicolas Ballas , Michael Rabbat

Pseudo-supervised learning methods have been shown to be effective for weakly supervised object localization tasks. However, the effectiveness depends on the powerful regularization ability of deep neural networks. Based on the assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kangbo Sun , Jie Zhu

We explore the value of weak labels in learning transferable representations for medical images. Compared to hand-labeled datasets, weak or inexact labels can be acquired in large quantities at significantly lower cost and can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Boon Peng Yap , Beng Koon Ng

This paper investigates the problem of image classification with limited or no annotations, but abundant unlabeled data. The setting exists in many tasks such as semi-supervised image classification, image clustering, and image retrieval.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) is introduced to narrow the gap for semantic segmentation performance from pixel-level supervision to image-level supervision. Most advanced approaches are based on class activation maps (CAMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Sanghyun Jo , In-Jae Yu

We consider weakly supervised segmentation where only a fraction of pixels have ground truth labels (scribbles) and focus on a self-labeling approach optimizing relaxations of the standard unsupervised CRF/Potts loss on unlabeled pixels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhongwen Zhang , Yuri Boykov

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods targeting scene images have seen a rapid growth recently, and they mostly rely on either a dedicated dense matching mechanism or a costly unsupervised object discovery module. This paper shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Jianxin Wu

Weakly-supervised object detection attempts to limit the amount of supervision by dispensing the need for bounding boxes, but still assumes image-level labels on the entire training set. In this work, we study the problem of training an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Zhaohui Yang , Miaojing Shi , Chao Xu , Vittorio Ferrari , Yannis Avrithis

Lesion segmentation on nasal endoscopic images is challenging due to its complex lesion features. Fully-supervised deep learning methods achieve promising performance with pixel-level annotations but impose a significant annotation burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pengyu Jie , Wanquan Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Yihui Wen , Rui He , Weiping Wen , Pengcheng Li , Jintao Zhang , Deyu Meng

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

Scribble-based weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using sparse scribble supervision is gaining traction as it reduces annotation costs when compared to fully annotated alternatives. Existing methods primarily generate pseudo-labels by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Lujia Jin , Yanye Lu

Recently, One-stage Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has gained increasing interest due to simplification over its cumbersome multi-stage counterpart. Limited by the inherent ambiguity of Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuanchen Wu , Xichen Ye , Kequan Yang , Jide Li , Xiaoqiang Li