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Although deep neural networks have achieved remarkable results for the task of semantic segmentation, they usually fail to generalize towards new domains, especially when performing synthetic-to-real adaptation. Such domain shift is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Adriano Cardace , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Supervised deep learning methods for segmentation require large amounts of labelled training data, without which they are prone to overfitting, not generalizing well to unseen images. In practice, obtaining a large number of annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Krishna Chaitanya , Neerav Karani , Christian Baumgartner , Olivio Donati , Anton Becker , Ender Konukoglu

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to obtain high-level semantic representation on low-level visual features without manual annotations. Most existing methods are bottom-up approaches that try to group pixels into regions based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhaoyuan Yin , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Xianzhe Xu , Hanling Zhang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

In this work, we investigate performing semantic segmentation solely through the training on image-sentence pairs. Due to the lack of dense annotations, existing text-supervised methods can only learn to group an image into semantic regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yabo Zhang , Zihao Wang , Jun Hao Liew , Jingjia Huang , Manyu Zhu , Jiashi Feng , Wangmeng Zuo

Producing quality segmentation masks for images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recent research has explored large-scale supervised training to enable zero-shot segmentation on virtually any image style and unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Junjiao Tian , Lavisha Aggarwal , Andrea Colaco , Zsolt Kira , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

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

Surgical instrument segmentation is a key component in developing context-aware operating rooms. Existing works on this task heavily rely on the supervision of a large amount of labeled data, which involve laborious and expensive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Daochang Liu , Yuhui Wei , Tingting Jiang , Yizhou Wang , Rulin Miao , Fei Shan , Ziyu Li

Medical image data is less accessible than in other domains due to privacy and regulatory constraints. In addition, labeling requires costly, time-intensive manual image annotation by clinical experts. To overcome these challenges,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Fangyijie Wang , Kevin Whelan , Félix Balado , Kathleen M. Curran , Guénolé Silvestre

In recent years, semantic segmentation has become a pivotal tool in processing and interpreting satellite imagery. Yet, a prevalent limitation of supervised learning techniques remains the need for extensive manual annotations by experts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aysim Toker , Marvin Eisenberger , Daniel Cremers , Laura Leal-Taixé

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont

Current deep networks are very data-hungry and benefit from training on largescale datasets, which are often time-consuming to collect and annotate. By contrast, synthetic data can be generated infinitely using generative models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Hao Chen , Yuchao Gu , Rui Zhao , Yefei He , Hong Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou , Chunhua Shen

This paper presents a semi-supervised learning framework for a customized semantic segmentation task using multiview image streams. A key challenge of the customized task lies in the limited accessibility of the labeled data due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yuan Yao , Hyun Soo Park

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving. However, to train CNNs requires a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Boqing Gong

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success across a wide range of generative tasks. However, they often suffer from spatially inconsistent generation, arguably due to the inherent locality of their denoising mechanisms. This can yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Zhiyuan Li , Yi Zhao , Mohammad Hassan Vali , Martin Trapp , Joni Pajarinen , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

Semantic segmentation demands dense pixel-level annotations, which can be prohibitively expensive - especially under extremely constrained labeling budgets. In this paper, we address the problem of low-budget active learning for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jeongin Kim , Wonho Bae , YouLee Han , Giyeong Oh , Youngjae Yu , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh

Semantic segmentation, like other fields of computer vision, has seen a remarkable performance advance by the use of deep convolution neural networks. However, considering that neighboring pixels are heavily dependent on each other, both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hyojin Park , Jisoo Jeong , Youngjoon Yoo , Nojun Kwak

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

Semantic segmentation requires large amounts of pixel-wise annotations to learn accurate models. In this paper, we present a video prediction-based methodology to scale up training sets by synthesizing new training samples in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Yi Zhu , Karan Sapra , Fitsum A. Reda , Kevin J. Shih , Shawn Newsam , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 James M. Murphy , Mauro Maggioni

Semantic segmentation takes pivotal roles in various applications such as autonomous driving and medical image analysis. When deploying segmentation models in practice, it is critical to test their behaviors in varied and complex scenes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zijin Yin , Bing Li , Kongming Liang , Hao Sun , Zhongjiang He , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo