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Despite the remarkable progress, weakly supervised segmentation approaches are still inferior to their fully supervised counterparts. We obverse the performance gap mainly comes from their limitation on learning to produce high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yunchao Wei , Huaxin Xiao , Honghui Shi , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Thomas S. Huang

Medical experts often manually segment images to obtain diagnostic statistics and discard the resulting annotations. We aim to train segmentation models to alleviate this burden, but constrained to the retained summary statistics (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Omkar Kulkarni , Edward Raff , Tim Oates

Though performed almost effortlessly by humans, segmenting 2D gray-scale or color images into respective regions of interest (e.g.~background, objects, or portions of objects) constitutes one of the greatest challenges in science and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

This work proposes a self-supervised learning system for segmenting rigid objects in RGB images. The proposed pipeline is trained on unlabeled RGB-D videos of static objects, which can be captured with a camera carried by a mobile robot. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shiyang Lu , Yunfu Deng , Abdeslam Boularias , Kostas Bekris

Learning from weakly-supervised data is one of the main challenges in machine learning and computer vision, especially for tasks such as image semantic segmentation where labeling is extremely expensive and subjective. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Xianming Liu , Amy Zhang , Tobias Tiecke , Andreas Gros , Thomas S. Huang

The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wonjik Kim , Asako Kanezaki , Masayuki Tanaka

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment unseen class objects with the guidance of only a few support images. Most previous methods rely on the pixel-level label of support images. In this paper, we focus on a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haohan Wang , Liang Liu , Wuhao Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Haoqian Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

Segmenting objects in images and separating sound sources in audio are challenging tasks, in part because traditional approaches require large amounts of labeled data. In this paper we develop a neural network model for visual object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Andrew Rouditchenko , Hang Zhao , Chuang Gan , Josh McDermott , Antonio Torralba

Deep learning for unsupervised image segmentation remains challenging due to the absence of human labels. The common idea is to train a segmentation head, with the supervision of pixel-wise pseudo-labels generated based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yi Zhang , Chengyi Wu

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation and localiza- tion have a problem of focusing only on the most important parts of an image since they use only image-level annota- tions. In this paper, we solve this problem fundamentally via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Dahun Kim , Donghyeon Cho , Donggeun Yoo , In So Kweon

Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for safe and reliable autonomous mobile systems like self-driving cars, improving the reliability and robustness of subsequent tasks like SLAM or path planning. While the segmentation of camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Leon Schwarzer , Matthias Zeller , Daniel Casado Herraez , Simon Dierl , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

State-of-the-art learning based boundary detection methods require extensive training data. Since labelling object boundaries is one of the most expensive types of annotations, there is a need to relax the requirement to carefully annotate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Anna Khoreva , Rodrigo Benenson , Mohamed Omran , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Current state-of-the-art methods for object detection rely on annotated bounding boxes of large data sets for training. However, obtaining such annotations is expensive and can require up to hundreds of hours of manual labor. This poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hannah Kniesel , Leon Sick , Tristan Payer , Tim Bergner , Kavitha Shaga Devan , Clarissa Read , Paul Walther , Timo Ropinski

This paper proposes a novel self-supervised based Cut-and-Paste GAN to perform foreground object segmentation and generate realistic composite images without manual annotations. We accomplish this goal by a simple yet effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Kunal Chaturvedi , Ali Braytee , Jun Li , Mukesh Prasad

We tackle biomedical image segmentation in the scenario of only a few labeled brain MR images. This is an important and challenging task in medical applications, where manual annotations are time-consuming. Current multi-atlas based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Hyeon Woo Lee , Mert R. Sabuncu , Adrian V. Dalca

Self-supervised vision transformers can generate accurate localization maps of the objects in an image. However, since they decompose the scene into multiple maps containing various objects, and they do not rely on any explicit supervisory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Shakeeb Murtaza , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Aydin Sarraf , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as an appealing alternative to alleviate the need for large labeled datasets in semantic segmentation. Most current approaches exploit class activation maps (CAMs), which can be generated from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Gaurav Patel , Jose Dolz

A common problem with segmentation of medical images using neural networks is the difficulty to obtain a significant number of pixel-level annotated data for training. To address this issue, we proposed a semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ange Lou , Kareem Tawfik , Xing Yao , Ziteng Liu , Jack Noble