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Given multiple datasets with different label spaces, the goal of this work is to train a single object detector predicting over the union of all the label spaces. The practical benefits of such an object detector are obvious and significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiangyun Zhao , Samuel Schulter , Gaurav Sharma , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Manmohan Chandraker , Ying Wu

In this paper, we propose an effective knowledge transfer framework to boost the weakly supervised object detection accuracy with the help of an external fully-annotated source dataset, whose categories may not overlap with the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yuanyi Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Jian Peng , Lei Zhang

A consistent trend throughout the research of oriented object detection has been the pursuit of maintaining comparable performance with fewer and weaker annotations. This is particularly crucial in the remote sensing domain, where the dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wei Zhang , Xiang Liu , Ningjing Liu , Mingxin Liu , Wei Liao , Chunyan Xu , Xue Yang

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods leverage unlabeled data by pseudo-labeling them. Thus the success of these methods hinges on the reliablility of the pseudo-labels. Existing methods mostly choose high-confidence pixels in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Prantik Howlader , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Image-level weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) reduces the usually vast data annotation cost by surrogate segmentation masks during training. The typical approach involves training an image classification network using global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Arvi Jonnarth , Yushan Zhang , Michael Felsberg

The deficiency of segmentation labels is one of the main obstacles to semantic segmentation in the wild. To alleviate this issue, we present a novel framework that generates segmentation labels of images given their image-level class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jiwoon Ahn , Suha Kwak

Deep learning-based video salient object detection has recently achieved great success with its performance significantly outperforming any other unsupervised methods. However, existing data-driven approaches heavily rely on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Pengxiang Yan , Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Zhen Li , Chuan Wang , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin

We consider the task of learning a classifier for semantic segmentation using weak supervision in the form of image labels which specify the object classes present in the image. Our method uses deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Qinbin Hou , Puneet Kumar Dokania , Daniela Massiceti , Yunchao Wei , Ming-Ming Cheng , Philip Torr

Existing weak supervision approaches use all the data covered by weak signals to train a classifier. We show both theoretically and empirically that this is not always optimal. Intuitively, there is a tradeoff between the amount of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-08 Hunter Lang , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan , David Sontag

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

Pixel-level annotations are expensive and time consuming to obtain. Hence, weak supervision using only image tags could have a significant impact in semantic segmentation. Recently, CNN-based methods have proposed to fine-tune pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Jose M. Alvarez , Stephen Gould

This paper studies the problem of learning semantic segmentation from image-level supervision only. Current popular solutions leverage object localization maps from classifiers as supervision signals, and struggle to make the localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Guolei Sun , Wenguan Wang , Jifeng Dai , Luc Van Gool

I present the Lower Biased Teacher model, an enhancement of the Unbiased Teacher model, specifically tailored for semi-supervised object detection tasks. The primary innovation of this model is the integration of a localization loss into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shuang Wang

Existing Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale pixel-annotated training sets, which are both time-consuming and labor-intensive. Although weakly supervised methods offer higher annotation efficiency, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jin Zhang , Ruiheng Zhang , Yanjiao Shi , Zhe Cao , Nian Liu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

The performance of the state-of-the-art image segmentation methods heavily relies on the high-quality annotations, which are not easily affordable, particularly for medical data. To alleviate this limitation, in this study, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-20 Aliasghar Mortazi , Naji Khosravan , Drew A. Torigian , Sila Kurugol , Ulas Bagci

Discovering visual knowledge from weakly labeled data is crucial to scale up computer vision recognition system, since it is expensive to obtain fully labeled data for a large number of concept categories. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Bolei Zhou , Vignesh Jagadeesh , Robinson Piramuthu

Fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great success in human parsing in recent years. In conventional human parsing tasks, pixel-level labeling is required for guiding the training, which usually involves enormous human labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Zhonghua Wu , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai

Many ways of annotating a dataset for machine learning classification tasks that go beyond the usual class labels exist in practice. These are of interest as they can simplify or facilitate the collection of annotations, while not greatly…

Semi-supervised 3D object detection is a common strategy employed to circumvent the challenge of manually labeling large-scale autonomous driving perception datasets. Pseudo-labeling approaches to semi-supervised learning adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Philip Jacobson , Yichen Xie , Mingyu Ding , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan , Ming C. Wu