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Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methods only require image level labels as opposed to expensive bounding box annotations required by fully supervised algorithms. We study the problem of learning localization model on target…

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The application of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) research powerful cross-modal semantic understanding capabilities. Existing methods attempt to optimize input text prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhongxing Xu , Feilong Tang , Zhe Chen , Yingxue Su , Zhiyi Zhao , Ge Zhang , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge

Recent progress in vision-language pretraining has enabled significant improvements to many downstream computer vision applications, such as classification, retrieval, segmentation and depth prediction. However, a fundamental capability…

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) aims at learning precise object detectors with only image-level tags. In spite of intensive research on deep learning (DL) approaches over the past few years, there is still a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Qi Lai , ChiMan Vong

Modern deep learning models require large amounts of accurately annotated data, which is often difficult to satisfy. Hence, weakly supervised tasks, including weakly supervised object localization~(WSOL) and detection~(WSOD), have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Chen-Lin Zhang , Yin Li , Jianxin Wu

Vision-language models such as CLIP have boosted the performance of open-vocabulary object detection, where the detector is trained on base categories but required to detect novel categories. Existing methods leverage CLIP's strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL), which aims to localize objects by only using image-level labels, has attracted much attention because of its low annotation cost in real applications. Current studies focus on the Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xi Yang , Songsong Duan , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

We introduce count-guided weakly supervised localization (C-WSL), an approach that uses per-class object count as a new form of supervision to improve weakly supervised localization (WSL). C-WSL uses a simple count-based region selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Mingfei Gao , Ang Li , Ruichi Yu , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) methods with image-level labels generally train a classification network to generate the Class Activation Maps (CAMs) as the initial coarse segmentation labels. However, current WSSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Lixiang Ru , Bo Du , Yibing Zhan , Chen Wu

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels typically leverages Class Activation Maps (CAMs) to achieve pixel-level predictions. Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been introduced to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zhiwei Yang , Pengfei Song , Yucong Meng , Kexue Fu , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

Prompt learning has emerged as a valuable technique in enhancing vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP for downstream tasks in specific domains. Existing work mainly focuses on designing various learning forms of prompts, neglecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Zheng Li , Xiang Li , Xinyi Fu , Xin Zhang , Weiqiang Wang , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang

Weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) has gained popularity over the last years for its promise to train localization models with only image-level labels. Since the seminal WSOL work of class activation mapping (CAM), the field has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Junsuk Choe , Seong Joon Oh , Sanghyuk Chun , Seungho Lee , Zeynep Akata , Hyunjung Shim

Learning discriminative 3D representations that generalize well to unknown testing categories is an emerging requirement for many real-world 3D applications. Existing well-established methods often struggle to attain this goal due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhichuan Wang , Yang Zhou , Jinhai Xiang , Yulong Wang , Xinwei He

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is a challenging task aiming to localize objects with only image-level supervision. Recent works apply visual transformer to WSOL and achieve significant success by exploiting the long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Pingyu Wu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha

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

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation aims to assign category labels to each pixel using weak annotations, significantly reducing manual annotation costs. Although existing methods have achieved remarkable progress in well-lit scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chunyan Wang , Dong Zhang , Jinhui Tang

In this paper, we address the problem of weakly supervised object localization (WSL), which trains a detection network on the dataset with only image-level annotations. The proposed approach is built on the observation that the proposal set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Wenju Xu , Yuanwei Wu , Wenchi Ma , Guanghui Wang

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) techniques learn the object location only using image-level labels, without location annotations. A common limitation for these techniques is that they cover only the most discriminative part of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Junsuk Choe , Hyunjung Shim

Using deep learning models to diagnose cancer from histology data presents several challenges. Cancer grading and localization of regions of interest (ROIs) in these images normally relies on both image- and pixel-level labels, the latter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jérôme Rony , Soufiane Belharbi , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Crossmodal knowledge distillation (KD) aims to enhance a unimodal student using a multimodal teacher model. In particular, when the teacher's modalities include the student's, additional complementary information can be exploited to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Chenqi Guo , Mengshuo Rong , Qianli Feng , Rongfan Feng , Yinglong Ma