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Recent object detection systems rely on two critical steps: (1) a set of object proposals is predicted as efficiently as possible, and (2) this set of candidate proposals is then passed to an object classifier. Such approaches have been…

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In this paper, we introduce a novel learning scheme named weakly semi-supervised instance segmentation (WSSIS) with point labels for budget-efficient and high-performance instance segmentation. Namely, we consider a dataset setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Beomyoung Kim , Joonhyun Jeong , Dongyoon Han , Sung Ju Hwang

Existing state-of-the-art salient object detection networks rely on aggregating multi-level features of pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Compared to high-level features, low-level features contribute less to performance but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Zhe Wu , Li Su , Qingming Huang

Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale datasets with pixel-wise annotations. However, due to the ambiguous boundary, annotating camouflage objects pixel-wisely is very time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruozhen He , Qihua Dong , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Background and objectives: Colorectal cancer histopathological grading depends on accurate segmentation of glandular structures. Current deep learning approaches rely on large scale pixel level annotations that are labor intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hikmat Khan , Wei Chen , Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi

Existing camouflage object detection (COD) methods typically rely on fully-supervised learning guided by mask annotations. However, obtaining mask annotations is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Compared to fully-supervised methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jingchen Ni , Quan Zhang , Dan Jiang , Keyu Lv , Ke Zhang , Chun Yuan

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment objects visually embedded in their surroundings, which is a very challenging task due to the high similarity between the objects and the background. To address it, most methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhennan Chen , Xuying Zhang , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Ying Tai

Semi- and weakly-supervised learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the object detection literature since they can alleviate the cost of annotation needed to successfully train deep learning models. State-of-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akhil Meethal , Marco Pedersoli , Zhongwen Zhu , Francisco Perdigon Romero , Eric Granger

Camouflaged object detection (COD) poses a significant challenge in computer vision due to the high similarity between objects and their backgrounds. Existing approaches often rely on heavy training and large computational resources. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wutao Liu , YiDan Wang , Pan Gao

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

In recent years, weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted much attention due to its low labeling cost. The success of recent WSOD models is often ascribed to the two-stage multi-class classification (MCC) task, i.e., multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yufei Yin , Lechao Cheng , Wengang Zhou , Jiajun Deng , Zhou Yu , Houqiang Li

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) with only image-level annotation has recently attracted wide attention. Many existing methods ignore the inter-image relationship of instances which share similar characteristics while can certainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yu Zhang , Chuang Zhu , Guoqing Yang , Siqi Chen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to bypass the need for laborious pixel-level annotation by using only image-level annotation. Most existing methods rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) to derive pixel-level pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tianle Chen , Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Wei-lun Chao

Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) refers to the task of discriminating the whole region of objects from the background within a scene without relying on labeled datasets, which benefits the task of bounding-box-level localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes , Yuchao Dai

Recently end-to-end scene text spotting has become a popular research topic due to its advantages of global optimization and high maintainability in real applications. Most methods attempt to develop various region of interest (RoI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Liang Qiao , Ying Chen , Zhanzhan Cheng , Yunlu Xu , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu

Weakly-Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) and Localization (WSOL), i.e., detecting multiple and single instances with bounding boxes in an image using image-level labels, are long-standing and challenging tasks in the CV community. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Feifei Shao , Long Chen , Jian Shao , Wei Ji , Shaoning Xiao , Lu Ye , Yueting Zhuang , Jun Xiao

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation under image tags supervision is a challenging task as it directly associates high-level semantic to low-level appearance. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose an iterative bottom-up and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xiang Wang , Shaodi You , Xi Li , Huimin Ma

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) focuses on segmenting specific camouflaged targets in a query image using category-aligned references. Despite recent advances, existing methods struggle with reference-target semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ye Wang , Kai Huang , Sumin Shen , Chenyang Ma

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects by only utilizing image-level labels. Class activation maps (CAMs) are the commonly used features to achieve WSOL. However, previous CAM-based methods did not take full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jun Wei , Qin Wang , Zhen Li , Sheng Wang , S. Kevin Zhou , Shuguang Cui