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This work presents a novel approach for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. The key element of this approach is our contrastive learning module that enforces the segmentation network to yield similar pixel-level feature representations…

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The problem of unsupervised learning and segmentation of hyperspectral images is a significant challenge in remote sensing. The high dimensionality of hyperspectral data, presence of substantial noise, and overlap of classes all contribute…

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Sclera segmentation is crucial for developing automatic eye-related medical computer-aided diagnostic systems, as well as for personal identification and verification, because the sclera contains distinct personal features. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Guanjun Wang , Lu Wang , Ning Niu , Qiaoyi Yao , Yixuan Wang , Sufen Ren , Shengchao Chen

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress when a large amount of labeled data are available. However, annotating medical image segmentation datasets is expensive due to the requirement of professional skills. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tao Wang , Zhongzheng Huang , Jiawei Wu , Yuanzheng Cai , Zuoyong Li

Contrastive learning and self-supervised techniques have gained prevalence in computer vision for the past few years. It is essential for medical image analysis, which is often notorious for its lack of annotations. Most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Jun Li , Quan Quan , S. Kevin Zhou

Medical image segmentation is a critical yet challenging task, primarily due to the difficulty of obtaining extensive datasets of high-quality, expert-annotated images. Contrastive learning presents a potential but still problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuang Zeng , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Hangzhou He , Yanye Lu

Pixel-level labels are particularly expensive to acquire. Hence, pretraining is a critical step to improve models on a task like semantic segmentation. However, prominent algorithms for pretraining neural networks use image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mathilde Caron , Neil Houlsby , Cordelia Schmid

Standard segmentation of medical images based on full-supervised convolutional networks demands accurate dense annotations. Such learning framework is built on laborious manual annotation with restrict demands for expertise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Liyan Sun , Jianxiong Wu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

The advancement of deep learning has greatly improved supervised image classification. However, labeling data is costly, prompting research into unsupervised learning methods such as contrastive learning. In real-world scenarios, fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shogo Nakayama , Masahiro Okuda

Deep learning based semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods have achieved strong performance in medical image segmentation, which can alleviate doctors' expensive annotation by utilizing a large amount of unlabeled data. Unlike most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Zihang Xu , Zhenghua Xu , Shuo Zhang , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Contrastive learning has shown great promise over annotation scarcity problems in the context of medical image segmentation. Existing approaches typically assume a balanced class distribution for both labeled and unlabeled medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Chenyu You , Weicheng Dai , Yifei Min , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Label distribution learning (LDL) is a paradigm that each sample is associated with a label distribution. At present, the existing approaches are proposed for the single-view LDL problem with labeled data, while the multi-view LDL problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yanshan Xiao , Kaihong Wu , Bo Liu

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Graph clustering is crucial for unraveling intricate data structures, yet it presents significant challenges due to its unsupervised nature. Recently, goal-directed clustering techniques have yielded impressive results, with contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Enhao Cheng , Shoujia Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Li Jin , Liqiang Nie

In the context of the global coronavirus pandemic, different deep learning solutions for infected subject detection using chest X-ray images have been proposed. However, deep learning models usually need large labelled datasets to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Saul Calderon-Ramirez , Shengxiang Yang , David Elizondo , Armaghan Moemeni

Multi-label image classification, which can be categorized into label-dependency and region-based methods, is a challenging problem due to the complex underlying object layouts. Although region-based methods are less likely to encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jiawei Zhan , Jun Liu , Wei Tang , Guannan Jiang , Xi Wang , Bin-Bin Gao , Tianliang Zhang , Wenlong Wu , Wei Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yuan Xie

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress on a variety of medical image computing tasks. A common problem when applying supervised deep learning methods to medical images is the lack of labeled data, which is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Xing , Pheng-Ann Heng

In fine-grained road scene understanding, semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling vehicles to perceive and comprehend their surroundings. By assigning a specific class label to each pixel in an image, it allows for precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuting Hong , Yongkang Wu , Hui Xiao , Huazheng Hao , Xiaojie Qiu , Baochen Yao , Chengbin Peng

In practical domains, high-dimensional data are usually associated with diverse semantic labels, whereas traditional feature selection methods are designed for single-label data. Moreover, existing multi-label methods encounter two main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yan Zhong , Xingyu Wu , Xinping Zhao , Li Zhang , Xinyuan Song , Lei Shi , Bingbing Jiang

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many clinical approaches. Semi-supervised learning has been widely applied to medical image segmentation tasks since it alleviates the heavy burden of acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Yichi Zhang , Rushi Jiao , Qingcheng Liao , Dongyang Li , Jicong Zhang