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Learning semantic segmentation models requires a huge amount of pixel-wise labeling. However, labeled data may only be available abundantly in a domain different from the desired target domain, which only has minimal or no annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sujoy Paul , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Samuel Schulter , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Manmohan Chandraker

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to generalize to novel categories with only a few samples. Recent approaches incorporate large language models (LLMs) to enrich visual representations with semantic embeddings derived from class names. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wenhao Li , Xianjing Meng , Qiangchang Wang , Zhongyi Han , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin

Accurate biomedical image classification under low-resource conditions remains challenging due to limited annotations, subtle inter-class visual differences, and complex disease semantics. While vision--language models offer a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xiaoliu Luo , Minxue Xiao , Ting Xie , Mengzhu Wang , Huiqing Qi , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Taiping Zhang , Xu Wang

Video-language alignment is a crucial multi-modal task that benefits various downstream applications, e.g., video-text retrieval and video question answering. Existing methods either utilize multi-modal information in video-text pairs or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shi-Xue Zhang , Hongfa Wang , Xiaobin Zhu , Weibo Gu , Tianjin Zhang , Chun Yang , Wei Liu , Xu-Cheng Yin

Despite the evolution of deep-learning-based visual-textual processing systems, precise multi-modal matching remains a challenging task. In this work, we tackle the task of cross-modal retrieval through image-sentence matching based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

Learning medical visual representations from paired images and reports is a promising direction in representation learning. However, current vision-language pretraining methods in the medical domain often simplify clinical reports into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Wei Li , Xun Gong , Jiao Li , Xiaobin Sun

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

Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) is a task to localize the temporal moment in untrimmed video specified by natural language query. For VMR, several methods that require full supervision for training have been proposed. Unfortunately, acquiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Minuk Ma , Sunjae Yoon , Junyeong Kim , Youngjoon Lee , Sunghun Kang , Chang D. Yoo

Recently, Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) techniques have greatly benefited various vision-language tasks by jointly learning visual and textual representations, which intuitively helps in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Yu Hao , Shijian Lu , Philip Torr , Song Bai

In this paper, we present a neat yet effective transformer-based framework for visual grounding, namely TransVG, to address the task of grounding a language query to the corresponding region onto an image. The state-of-the-art methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Human language is grounded on multimodal knowledge including visual knowledge like colors, sizes, and shapes. However, current large-scale pre-trained language models rely on text-only self-supervised training with massive text data, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weizhi Wang , Li Dong , Hao Cheng , Haoyu Song , Xiaodong Liu , Xifeng Yan , Jianfeng Gao , Furu Wei

The purpose of few-shot recognition is to recognize novel categories with a limited number of labeled examples in each class. To encourage learning from a supplementary view, recent approaches have introduced auxiliary semantic modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Siteng Huang , Min Zhang , Yachen Kang , Donglin Wang

Few-shot learning is a fundamental and challenging problem since it requires recognizing novel categories from only a few examples. The objects for recognition have multiple variants and can locate anywhere in images. Directly comparing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Congqi Cao , Yanning Zhang

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to precisely outline audible objects in a visual scene at the pixel level. Existing AVS methods require fine-grained annotations of audio-mask pairs in supervised learning fashion. This limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Swapnil Bhosale , Haosen Yang , Diptesh Kanojia , Xiatian Zhu

The goal of weakly-supervised video moment retrieval is to localize the video segment most relevant to the given natural language query without access to temporal annotations during training. Prior strongly- and weakly-supervised approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Reuben Tan , Huijuan Xu , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer

Open-vocabulary grounding requires accurate vision-language alignment under weak supervision, yet existing methods either rely on global sentence embeddings that lack fine-grained expressiveness or introduce token-level alignment with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Junyi Hu , Tian Bai , Fengyi Wu , Wenyan Li , Zhenming Peng , Yi Zhang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

Unsupervised visible-infrared person re-identification (USL-VI-ReID) seeks to match pedestrian images of the same individual across different modalities without human annotations for model learning. Previous methods unify pseudo-labels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 De Cheng , Lingfeng He , Nannan Wang , Dingwen Zhang , Xinbo Gao

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels typically utilizes Class Activation Map (CAM) to generate the pseudo labels. Limited by the local structure perception of CNN, CAM usually cannot identify the integral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Lixiang Ru , Heliang Zheng , Yibing Zhan , Bo Du