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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

Hyperspectral target detection is good at finding dim and small objects based on spectral characteristics. However, existing representation-based methods are hindered by the problem of the unknown background dictionary and insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Dunbin Shen , Xiaorui Ma , Wenfeng Kong , Jiacheng Tian , Hongyu Wang

Traditional fine-grained image classification generally requires abundant labeled samples to deal with the low inter-class variance but high intra-class variance problem. However, in many scenarios we may have limited samples for some novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chaofei Wang , Shiji Song , Qisen Yang , Xiang Li , Gao Huang

Fine-grained visual categorization is a classification task for distinguishing categories with high intra-class and small inter-class variance. While global approaches aim at using the whole image for performing the classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

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

Fine-grained categories are more difficulty distinguished than generic categories due to the similarity of inter-class and the diversity of intra-class. Therefore, the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is considered as one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Guo Lihua , Guo Chenggan

Conventional few-shot medical image segmentation (FSMIS) approaches face performance bottlenecks that hinder broader clinical applicability. Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits strong category-agnostic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuntian Bo , Yazhou Zhu , Piotr Koniusz , Haofeng Zhang

We propose a weakly-supervised framework for the semantic segmentation of circular-scan synthetic-aperture-sonar (CSAS) imagery. The first part of our framework is trained in a supervised manner, on image-level labels, to uncover a set of…

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to segment objects of unseen classes in query images with only a few annotated support images. Existing FSS algorithms typically focus on mining category representations from the single-view support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methodsusually rely on fully convolutional networks in order to ob-tain class activation maps(CAMs) of targeted labels. How-ever, these networks always highlight the most discriminativeparts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ziyi Kou , Wentian Zhao , Guofeng Cui , Shaojie Wang

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang

We propose to model complex visual scenes using a non-parametric Bayesian model learned from weakly labelled images abundant on media sharing sites such as Flickr. Given weak image-level annotations of objects and attributes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Zhiyuan Shi , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

Fine-grained open-set recognition (FineOSR) aims to recognize images belonging to classes with subtle appearance differences while rejecting images of unknown classes. A recent trend in OSR shows the benefit of generative models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wentao Bao , Qi Yu , Yu Kong

We focus on the real-world problem of training accurate deep models for image classification of a small number of rare categories. In these scenarios, almost all images belong to the background category in the dataset (>95% of the dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ravi Teja Mullapudi , Fait Poms , William R. Mark , Deva Ramanan , Kayvon Fatahalian

Fine-grained Visual Recognition (FGVR) involves distinguishing between visually similar categories, which is inherently challenging due to subtle inter-class differences and the need for large, expert-annotated datasets. In domains like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla , Sai Srinivas Kancheti , Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Training a fine-grained image recognition model with limited data presents a significant challenge, as the subtle differences between categories may not be easily discernible amidst distracting noise patterns. One commonly employed strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Avraham Chapman , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu

It is well accepted that image segmentation can benefit from utilizing multilevel cues. The paper focuses on utilizing the FCNN-based dense semantic predictions in the bottom-up image segmentation, arguing to take semantic cues into account…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Qiyang Zhao , Lewis D Griffin

Classifying fine-grained lesions is challenging due to minor and subtle differences in medical images. This is because learning features of fine-grained lesions with highly minor differences is very difficult in training deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Wongi Park , Jongbin Ryu

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has been widely studied to relieve the annotation burden of the traditional segmentation task. In this paper, we show that existing fully-annotated base categories can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Siyuan Zhou , Li Niu , Jianlou Si , Chen Qian , Liqing Zhang