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Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) faces persistent challenges in effectively leveraging unlabeled data, such as ineffective utilization of pseudo-labels, exacerbation of class imbalance biases, and neglect of prediction…

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Weakly-supervised image segmentation (WSIS) is a critical task in computer vision that relies on image-level class labels. Multi-stage training procedures have been widely used in existing WSIS approaches to obtain high-quality pseudo-masks…

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Recently, deep learning has experienced rapid expansion, contributing significantly to the progress of supervised learning methodologies. However, acquiring labeled data in real-world settings can be costly, labor-intensive, and sometimes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jicheng Yuan , Anh Le-Tuan , Ali Ganbarov , Manfred Hauswirth , Danh Le-Phuoc

Providing pixel-level supervisions for scene text segmentation is inherently difficult and costly, so that only few small datasets are available for this task. To face the scarcity of training data, previous approaches based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Simone Bonechi , Paolo Andreini , Monica Bianchini , Franco Scarselli

We introduce the problem of weakly supervised Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation, i.e. joint weakly supervised instance segmentation and multi-object tracking, in which we do not provide any kind of mask annotation. To address it, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Idoia Ruiz , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota Bulò , Peter Kontschieder , Joan Serrat

Reliable classification and detection of certain medical conditions, in images, with state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, require vast amounts of pixel-wise annotation. However, the public availability of such datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Erik Ostrowski , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Muhammad Shafique

Most of the recent Deep Semantic Segmentation algorithms suffer from large generalization errors, even when powerful hierarchical representation models based on convolutional neural networks have been employed. This could be attributed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Javed Iqbal , Mohsen Ali

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation helps assist diagnosis and accelerate the treatment process while the model training usually requires large-scale dense annotation datasets. Weakly semi-supervised medical image segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Shiman Li , Jiayue Zhao , Shaolei Liu , Xiaokun Dai , Chenxi Zhang , Zhijian Song

We propose to model complex visual scenes using a non-parametric Bayesian model learned from weakly labelled images abundant on media sharing sites such as Flickr. Given weak image-level annotations of objects and attributes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Zhiyuan Shi , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

Current methods for 3D semantic segmentation propose training models with limited annotations to address the difficulty of annotating large, irregular, and unordered 3D point cloud data. They usually focus on the 3D domain only, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Lechun You , Zhonghua Wu , Weide Liu , Xulei Yang , Jun Cheng , Wei Zhou , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Guosheng Lin

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) is a fundamental yet challenging computer vision task facilitating scene understanding and automatic driving. Most existing methods resort to classification-based Class Activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Jie Qin , Jie Wu , Xuefeng Xiao , Lujun Li , Xingang Wang

Current weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) frameworks usually contain the separated mask-refinement model and the main semantic region mining model. These approaches would contain redundant feature extraction backbones and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Dingwen Zhang , Wenyuan Zeng , Guangyu Guo , Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Ming-Ming Cheng , Junwei Han

Autonomous robotic systems applied to new domains require an abundance of expensive, pixel-level dense labels to train robust semantic segmentation models under full supervision. This study proposes a model-agnostic Depth Edge Alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Vasileios Belagiannis , Lazaros Nalpantidis

This work proposes a novel approach beyond supervised learning for effective pathological image analysis, addressing the challenge of limited robust labeled data. Pathological diagnosis of diseases like cancer has conventionally relied on…

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Efficiently training accurate deep models for weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels is challenging and important. Recently, end-to-end WSSS methods have become the focus of research due to their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Jiaxi Sun , Shibiao Xu , Weiliang Meng , Xiaopeng Zhang

Labeling training data has become one of the major roadblocks to using machine learning. Among various weak supervision paradigms, programmatic weak supervision (PWS) has achieved remarkable success in easing the manual labeling bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jieyu Zhang , Cheng-Yu Hsieh , Yue Yu , Chao Zhang , Alexander Ratner

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSS) is an important task that utilizes both labeled and unlabeled data to reduce expenses on labeling training examples. However, the effectiveness of SSS algorithms is limited by the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhibo Tain , Xiaolin Zhang , Peng Zhang , Kun Zhan

Class-incremental semantic image segmentation assumes multiple model updates, each enriching the model to segment new categories. This is typically carried out by providing expensive pixel-level annotations to the training algorithm for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Subhankar Roy , Riccardo Volpi , Gabriela Csurka , Diane Larlus

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has gained attention for its cost-effectiveness. Most existing methods emphasize inter-class separation, often neglecting the shared semantics among related categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wangyu Wu , Zhenhong Chen , Xiaowen Ma , Wenqiao Zhang , Xianglin Qiu , Siqi Song , Xiaowei Huang , Fei Ma , Jimin Xiao

Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for semantic segmentation typically requires to collect a large amount of accurate pixel-level annotations, a hard and expensive task. In contrast, simple image tags are easier to gather. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Carolina Redondo-Cabrera , Marcos Baptista-Ríos , Roberto J. López-Sastre