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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

In semantic segmentation, generalizing a visual system to both seen categories and novel categories at inference time has always been practically valuable yet challenging. To enable such functionality, existing methods mainly rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuhuan Yang , Chaofan Ma , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Deep learning has not been routinely employed for semantic segmentation of seabed environment for synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery due to the implicit need of abundant training data such methods necessitate. Abundant training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yung-Chen Sun , Isaac D. Gerg , Vishal Monga

Point cloud understanding aims to acquire robust and general feature representations from unlabeled data. Masked point modeling-based methods have recently shown significant performance across various downstream tasks. These pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yixin Zha , Chuxin Wang , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang

Recently, deep neural networks have greatly advanced histopathology image segmentation but usually require abundant annotated data. However, due to the gigapixel scale of whole slide images and pathologists' heavy daily workload, obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Wentao Pan , Jiangpeng Yan , Hanbo Chen , Jiawei Yang , Zhe Xu , Xiu Li , Jianhua Yao

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention in medical image segmentation due to challenges in acquiring pixel-wise image annotations, which is a crucial step for building high-performance deep learning methods. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shuailin Li , Chuyu Zhang , Xuming He

Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has produced a diverse landscape of vision transformers (ViTs) whose pretrained representations support a wide range of downstream tasks. Towards a better understanding of these models, a body of work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoyan Yu , Lisa Mais , Jannik Franzen , Peter Hirsch , Nick Lechtenbörger , Andreas Mardt , Dagmar Kainmüller

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging problem that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of advanced solutions exploit class activation map (CAM). However, CAMs can hardly serve as the object mask due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

We present an unsupervised method for co-segmentation of a set of 3D shapes from the same class with the aim of segmenting the input shapes into consistent semantic parts and establishing their correspondence across the set. Starting from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jun Yang , Zhenhua Tian

Part-level features are crucial for image understanding, but few studies focus on them because of the lack of fine-grained labels. Although unsupervised part discovery can eliminate the reliance on labels, most of them cannot maintain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jiahao Xia , Yike Wu , Wenjian Huang , Jianguo Zhang , Jian Zhang

We tackle the challenge of open-vocabulary segmentation, where we need to identify objects from a wide range of categories in different environments, using text prompts as our input. To overcome this challenge, existing methods often use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yu-Jhe Li , Xinyang Zhang , Kun Wan , Lantao Yu , Ajinkya Kale , Xin Lu

Existing works on semantic segmentation typically consider a small number of labels, ranging from tens to a few hundreds. With a large number of labels, training and evaluation of such task become extremely challenging due to correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yufei Wang , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jianming Zhang , Scott Cohen

Semantic segmentation is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision. However, in many applications, a frequent obstacle is the lack of labeled images, due to the high cost of pixel-level labeling. In this scenario, it makes sense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Adrian Peláez-Vegas , Pablo Mesejo , Julián Luengo

Automated semantic segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopic images is crucial for disease diagnosis and tissue microenvironment analysis. Nonetheless, this task presents challenges due to the complexity and heterogeneity of cells. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Zhuchen Shao , Sourya Sengupta , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio

Since acquiring pixel-wise annotations for training convolutional neural networks for semantic image segmentation is time-consuming, weakly supervised approaches that only require class tags have been proposed. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Johann Sawatzky , Debayan Banerjee , Juergen Gall

Deep neural networks have enabled major progresses in semantic segmentation. However, even the most advanced neural architectures suffer from important limitations. First, they are vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting, i.e. they perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Buló , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

Parts provide a good intermediate representation of objects that is robust with respect to the camera, pose and appearance variations. Existing works on part segmentation is dominated by supervised approaches that rely on large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Wei-Chih Hung , Varun Jampani , Sifei Liu , Pavlo Molchanov , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

Assigning meaning to parts of image data is the goal of semantic image segmentation. Machine learning methods, specifically supervised learning is commonly used in a variety of tasks formulated as semantic segmentation. One of the major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski , Shiwei Liu , Mykola Pechenizkiy