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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

Semantic segmentation is a task that traditionally requires a large dataset of pixel-level ground truth labels, which is time-consuming and expensive to obtain. Recent advancements in the weakly-supervised setting show that reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Erik Stammes , Tom F. H. Runia , Michael Hofmann , Mohsen Ghafoorian

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methods only require image level labels as opposed to expensive bounding box annotations required by fully supervised algorithms. We study the problem of learning localization model on target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amir Rahimi , Amirreza Shaban , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Richard Hartley , Byron Boots

Object category localization is a challenging problem in computer vision. Standard supervised training requires bounding box annotations of object instances. This time-consuming annotation process is sidestepped in weakly supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Jakob Verbeek , Cordelia Schmid

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 2021-11-22 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Weakly supervised object localization aims to find a target object region in a given image with only weak supervision, such as image-level labels. Most existing methods use a class activation map (CAM) to generate a localization map;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Eunji Kim , Siwon Kim , Jungbeom Lee , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

Learning semantic segmentation models under image-level supervision is far more challenging than under fully supervised setting. Without knowing the exact pixel-label correspondence, most weakly-supervised methods rely on external models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Zi-Yi Ke , Chiou-Ting Hsu

Semi-weakly supervised semantic segmentation (SWSSS) aims to train a model to identify objects in images based on a small number of images with pixel-level labels, and many more images with only image-level labels. Most existing SWSSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wonho Bae , Junhyug Noh , Milad Jalali Asadabadi , Danica J. Sutherland

We address the problem of localisation of objects as bounding boxes in images with weak labels. This weakly supervised object localisation problem has been tackled in the past using discriminative models where each object class is localised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Zhiyuan Shi , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

We consider the task of training classifiers without labels. We propose a weakly supervised method---adversarial label learning---that trains classifiers to perform well against an adversary that chooses labels for training data. The weak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

Recent advances in supervised salient object detection has resulted in significant performance on benchmark datasets. Training such models, however, requires expensive pixel-wise annotations of salient objects. Moreover, many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Huaizu Jiang

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

Multi-label image classification, which can be categorized into label-dependency and region-based methods, is a challenging problem due to the complex underlying object layouts. Although region-based methods are less likely to encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jiawei Zhan , Jun Liu , Wei Tang , Guannan Jiang , Xi Wang , Bin-Bin Gao , Tianliang Zhang , Wenlong Wu , Wei Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yuan Xie

Existing weakly or semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods utilize image or box-level supervision to generate pseudo-labels for weakly labeled images. However, due to the lack of strong supervision, the generated pseudo-labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Sen Jia , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil D. B. Bruce

We propose an approach for unsupervised adaptation of object detectors from label-rich to label-poor domains which can significantly reduce annotation costs associated with detection. Recently, approaches that align distributions of source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Kuniaki Saito , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada , Kate Saenko

Weakly supervised object detection aims at learning precise object detectors, given image category labels. In recent prevailing works, this problem is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning module guided by an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaoyan Li , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Self-supervised vision transformers can generate accurate localization maps of the objects in an image. However, since they decompose the scene into multiple maps containing various objects, and they do not rely on any explicit supervisory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Aydin Sarraf , Eric Granger