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With the advent of deep learning, object detection drifted from a bottom-up to a top-down recognition problem. State of the art algorithms enumerate a near-exhaustive list of object locations and classify each into: object or not. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Xingyi Zhou , Jiacheng Zhuo , Philipp Krähenbühl

The requirement of expensive annotations is a major burden for training a well-performed instance segmentation model. In this paper, we present an economic active learning setting, named active pointly-supervised instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chufeng Tang , Lingxi Xie , Gang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Xiaolin Hu

In this work, we present a novel and effective framework to facilitate object detection with the instance-level segmentation information that is only supervised by bounding box annotation. Starting from the joint object detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Xiangyun Zhao , Shuang Liang , Yichen Wei

Instance segmentation is essential for numerous computer vision applications, including robotics, human-computer interaction, and autonomous driving. Currently, popular models bring impressive performance in instance segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Cuong Manh Hoang

Deep learning-based methods are gaining traction in digital pathology, with an increasing number of publications and challenges that aim at easing the work of systematically and exhaustively analyzing tissue slides. These methods often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Ting-An Yen , Hung-Chun Hsu , Pushpak Pati , Maria Gabrani , Antonio Foncubierta-Rodríguez , Pau-Choo Chung

Semi-supervised crowd analysis is a prominent area of research, as unlabeled data are typically abundant and inexpensive to obtain. However, traditional point-based annotations constrain performance because individual regions are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jiyang Huang , Hongru Cheng , Wei Lin , Jia Wan , Antoni B. Chan

This paper presents a weakly-supervised approach to object instance segmentation. Starting with known or predicted object bounding boxes, we learn object masks by playing a game of cut-and-paste in an adversarial learning setup. A mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Tal Remez , Jonathan Huang , Matthew Brown

Text segmentation is a challenging vision task with many downstream applications. Current text segmentation methods require pixel-level annotations, which are expensive in the cost of human labor and limited in application scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyan Zu , Haiyang Yu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Weakly supervised instance segmentation using only bounding box annotations has recently attracted much research attention. Most of the current efforts leverage low-level image features as extra supervision without explicitly exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Ruihuang Li , Chenhang He , Yabin Zhang , Shuai Li , Liyi Chen , Lei Zhang

State-of-the-art instance-aware semantic segmentation algorithms use axis-aligned bounding boxes as an intermediate processing step to infer the final instance mask output. This often leads to coarse and inaccurate mask proposals due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Patrick Follmann , Rebecca König

In this paper, we focus on improving binary 2D instance segmentation to assist humans in labeling ground truth datasets with polygons. Humans labeler just have to draw boxes around objects, and polygons are generated automatically. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Darshan Ganganna Ravindra , Laslo Dinges , Al-Hamadi Ayoub , Vasili Baranau

Automatic medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in computer aided diagnosis. However, fully supervised learning approaches often require extensive and labor-intensive annotation efforts. To address this challenge, weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Lei Shi , Xi Fang , Naiyu Wang , Junxing Zhang

Instance segmentation is of great importance for many biological applications, such as study of neural cell interactions, plant phenotyping, and quantitatively measuring how cells react to drug treatment. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jingru Yi , Pengxiang Wu , Hui Tang , Bo Liu , Qiaoying Huang , Hui Qu , Lianyi Han , Wei Fan , Daniel J. Hoeppner , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Point annotations are considerably more time-efficient than bounding box annotations. However, how to use cheap point annotations to boost the performance of semi-supervised object detection remains largely unsolved. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yongtao Ge , Qiang Zhou , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li , Chunhua Shen

Point cloud instance segmentation has achieved huge progress with the emergence of deep learning. However, these methods are usually data-hungry with expensive and time-consuming dense point cloud annotations. To alleviate the annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Yongbin Liao , Hongyuan Zhu , Yanggang Zhang , Chuangguan Ye , Tao Chen , Jiayuan Fan

We present a high-performance method that can achieve mask-level instance segmentation with only bounding-box annotations for training. While this setting has been studied in the literature, here we show significantly stronger performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Xinlong Wang , Hao Chen

Instance segmentation on 3D point clouds (3DIS) is a longstanding challenge in computer vision, where state-of-the-art methods are mainly based on full supervision. As annotating ground truth dense instance masks is tedious and expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Tuan Duc Ngo , Binh-Son Hua , Khoi Nguyen

Weakly supervised instance segmentation with image-level labels, instead of expensive pixel-level masks, remains unexplored. In this paper, we tackle this challenging problem by exploiting class peak responses to enable a classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Yanzhao Zhou , Yi Zhu , Qixiang Ye , Qiang Qiu , Jianbin Jiao

In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Instance segmentation methods require large datasets with expensive and thus limited instance-level mask labels. Partially supervised instance segmentation aims to improve mask prediction with limited mask labels by utilizing the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 David Biertimpel , Sindi Shkodrani , Anil S. Baslamisli , Nóra Baka