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Semantic segmentation aims to classify every pixel of an input image. Considering the difficulty of acquiring dense labels, researchers have recently been resorting to weak labels to alleviate the annotation burden of segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yazhou Yao , Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Chuanyi Zhang , Fumin Shen , Qi Wu , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

To minimize the annotation costs associated with the training of semantic segmentation models, researchers have extensively investigated weakly-supervised segmentation approaches. In the current weakly-supervised segmentation methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Wataru Shimoda , Keiji Yanai

Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

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

Pixel-wise clean annotation is necessary for fully-supervised semantic segmentation, which is laborious and expensive to obtain. In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised 2D semantic segmentation model by incorporating sparse bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

Semantic segmentation has been continuously investigated in the last ten years, and majority of the established technologies are based on supervised models. In recent years, image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Peng Zhu , Tianyang Zhang , Chen Li , Huiyu Zhou , Licheng Jiao

Current state of the art methods for generating semantic segmentation rely heavily on a large set of images that have each pixel labeled with a class of interest label or background. Coming up with such labels, especially in domains that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 R. Austin McEver , B. S. Manjunath

Recently proposed methods for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation have achieved impressive performance in predicting pixel classes despite being trained with only image labels which lack positional information. Because image annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Lyndon Chan , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on class activation maps (CAMs) for pseudo labels generation. As CAMs only highlight the most discriminative regions of objects, the generated pseudo labels are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

Thanks to the advantages of the friendly annotations and the satisfactory performance, Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) approaches have been extensively studied. Recently, the single-stage WSSS was awakened to alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Chunyan Wang , Dong Zhang , Liyan Zhang , Jinhui Tang

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in recent years. Traditional approaches often rely on external modules like Class Activation Maps to highlight regions of interest and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Joelle Hanna , Damian Borth

Current weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) frameworks usually contain the separated mask-refinement model and the main semantic region mining model. These approaches would contain redundant feature extraction backbones and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Dingwen Zhang , Wenyuan Zeng , Guangyu Guo , Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Ming-Ming Cheng , Junwei Han

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

We present a causal inference framework to improve Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS). Specifically, we aim to generate better pixel-level pseudo-masks by using only image-level labels -- the most crucial step in WSSS. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Dong Zhang , Hanwang Zhang , Jinhui Tang , Xiansheng Hua , Qianru Sun

In weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level class labels, a problem with CNN-based Class Activation Maps (CAM) is that they tend to activate the most discriminative local regions of objects. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Izumi Fujimori , Masaki Oono , Masami Shishibori

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level labels has gained significant attention due to its cost-effectiveness. The typical framework involves using image-level labels as training data to generate pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Wangyu Wu , Tianhong Dai , Zhenhong Chen , Xiaowei Huang , Jimin Xiao , Fei Ma , Renrong Ouyang

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental topic in computer vision. Several deep learning methods have been proposed for semantic segmentation with outstanding results. However, these models require a lot of densely annotated images. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jhony H. Giraldo , Vincenzo Scarrica , Antonino Staiano , Francesco Camastra , Thierry Bouwmans