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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

Weakly-supervised instance segmentation, which could greatly save labor and time cost of pixel mask annotation, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The commonly used pipeline firstly utilizes conventional image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Shisha Liao , Yongqing Sun , Chenqiang Gao , Pranav Shenoy K P , Song Mu , Jun Shimamura , Atsushi Sagata

The task of unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to cluster pixels into semantically meaningful groups. Specifically, pixels assigned to the same cluster should share high-level semantic properties like their object or part category.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Luc Van Gool

We address an essential problem in computer vision, that of unsupervised object segmentation in video, where a main object of interest in a video sequence should be automatically separated from its background. An efficient solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Emanuela Haller , Marius Leordeanu

We present an approach for jointly matching and segmenting object instances of the same category within a collection of images. In contrast to existing algorithms that tackle the tasks of semantic matching and object co-segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yun-Chun Chen , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jia-Bin Huang

A major obstacle in instance segmentation is that existing methods often need many per-pixel labels in order to be effective. These labels require large human effort and for certain applications, such labels are not readily available. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Issam H. Laradji , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt

Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have paved the way for unsupervised methods tackling tasks such as object discovery and instance segmentation. However, discovering objects in an image with no supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Oriane Siméoni , Chloé Sekkat , Gilles Puy , Antonin Vobecky , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez

We propose a new approach to learn to segment multiple image objects without manual supervision. The method can extract objects form still images, but uses videos for supervision. While prior works have considered motion for segmentation, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Laurynas Karazija , Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Object parts serve as crucial intermediate representations in various downstream tasks, but part-level representation learning still has not received as much attention as other vision tasks. Previous research has established that Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jiahao Xia , Wenjian Huang , Min Xu , Jianguo Zhang , Haimin Zhang , Ziyu Sheng , Dong Xu

Deep convolutional networks for semantic image segmentation typically require large-scale labeled data, e.g. ImageNet and MS COCO, for network pre-training. To reduce annotation efforts, self-supervised semantic segmentation is recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Xiaohang Zhan , Ziwei Liu , Ping Luo , Xiaoou Tang , Chen Change Loy

We propose a novel unsupervised image segmentation algorithm, which aims to segment an image into several coherent parts. It requires no user input, no supervised learning phase and assumes an unknown number of segments. It achieves this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Aleksandar Dimitriev , Matej Kristan

Instance segmentation is an active topic in computer vision that is usually solved by using supervised learning approaches over very large datasets composed of object level masks. Obtaining such a dataset for any new domain can be very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Zhenzhen Weng , Mehmet Giray Ogut , Shai Limonchik , Serena Yeung

While supervised object detection and segmentation methods achieve impressive accuracy, they generalize poorly to images whose appearance significantly differs from the data they have been trained on. To address this when annotating data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Isinsu Katircioglu , Helge Rhodin , Victor Constantin , Jörg Spörri , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

In this work, we propose a new unsupervised image segmentation approach based on mutual information maximization between different constructed views of the inputs. Taking inspiration from autoregressive generative models that predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

Partially-supervised instance segmentation is a task which requests segmenting objects from novel unseen categories via learning on limited seen categories with annotated masks thus eliminating demands of heavy annotation burden. The key to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xuehui Wang , Kai Zhao , Ruixin Zhang , Shouhong Ding , Yan Wang , Wei Shen

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at assigning the pixels with similar feature into a same cluster without annotation, which is an important task in computer vision. Due to lack of prior knowledge, most of existing model usually need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhichao Wu , Lei Guo , Hao Zhang , Dan Xu

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

Object segmentation is a crucial problem that is usually solved by using supervised learning approaches over very large datasets composed of both images and corresponding object masks. Since the masks have to be provided at pixel level,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Mickaël Chen , Thierry Artières , Ludovic Denoyer

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

Unsupervised panoptic segmentation aims to partition an image into semantically meaningful regions and distinct object instances without training on manually annotated data. In contrast to prior work on unsupervised panoptic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers , Christian Rupprecht , Stefan Roth