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This paper studies the problem of learning semantic segmentation from image-level supervision only. Current popular solutions leverage object localization maps from classifiers as supervision signals, and struggle to make the localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Guolei Sun , Wenguan Wang , Jifeng Dai , Luc Van Gool

Existing studies in weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) have utilized class activation maps (CAMs) to localize the class objects. However, since a classification loss is insufficient for providing precise object regions, CAMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sung-Hoon Yoon , Hyeokjun Kweon , Jaeseok Jeong , Hyeonseong Kim , Shinjeong Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at generating precise object masks from input prompts but lacks semantic awareness, failing to associate its generated masks with specific object categories. To address this limitation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rohit Kundu , Sudipta Paul , Arindam Dutta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using only image-level labels can greatly reduce the annotation cost and therefore has attracted considerable research interest. However, its performance is still inferior to the fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Qi Yao , Xiaojin Gong

We explore the potential of large-scale noisily labeled data to enhance feature learning by pretraining semantic segmentation models within a multi-modal framework for geospatial applications. We propose a novel Cross-modal Sample Selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chenying Liu , Conrad Albrecht , Yi Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Effective reef monitoring requires the quantification of coral growth via accurate volumetric and surface area estimates, which is a challenging task due to the complex morphology of corals. We propose a novel, lightweight, and scalable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Diego Eustachio Farchione , Ramzi Idoughi , Peter Wonka

Coral reefs formulate the most valuable and productive marine ecosystems, providing habitat for many marine species. Coral reef surveying and analysis are currently confined to coral experts who invest substantial effort in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Zheng Ziqiang , Xie Yaofeng , Liang Haixin , Yu Zhibin , Sai-Kit Yeung

Marine Saliency Segmentation (MSS) plays a pivotal role in various vision-based marine exploration tasks. However, existing marine segmentation techniques face the dilemma of object mislocalization and imprecise boundaries due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Laibin Chang , Yunke Wang , JiaXing Huang , Longxiang Deng , Bo Du , Chang Xu

A consistent trend throughout the research of oriented object detection has been the pursuit of maintaining comparable performance with fewer and weaker annotations. This is particularly crucial in the remote sensing domain, where the dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wei Zhang , Xiang Liu , Ningjing Liu , Mingxin Liu , Wei Liao , Chunyan Xu , Xue Yang

The pixel-wise dense prediction tasks based on weakly supervisions currently use Class Attention Maps (CAM) to generate pseudo masks as ground-truth. However, the existing methods typically depend on the painstaking training modules, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models by weak labels, which is receiving significant attention due to its low annotation cost. Existing approaches focus on generating pseudo labels for supervision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Linshan Wu , Zhun Zhong , Jiayi Ma , Yunchao Wei , Hao Chen , Leyuan Fang , Shutao Li

Increasing attention is being diverted to data-efficient problem settings like Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) which deals with segmenting an arbitrary object that may or may not be seen during training. The closest standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Prashant Pandey , Mustafa Chasmai , Monish Natarajan , Brejesh Lall

Compared to conventional semantic segmentation with pixel-level supervision, Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels poses the challenge that it always focuses on the most discriminative regions, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jingxuan He , Lechao Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Zunlei Feng , Tingting Mu , Mingli Song

Weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation methods that require 1\% or fewer labels, hoping to realize almost the same performance as fully supervised approaches, which recently, have attracted extensive research attention. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Tianfang Sun , Zhizhong Zhang , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) aims to improve segmentation performance by utilizing large amounts of unlabeled data with limited labeled samples. Existing methods often suffer from coupling, where over-reliance on initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ebenezer Tarubinga , Jenifer Kalafatovich , Seong-Whan Lee

Contextual information in human environments, such as signs, symbols, and objects provide important information for robots to use for exploration and navigation. To identify and segment contextual information from complex images obtained in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Daniel Dworakowski , Goldie Nejat

Semantic segmentation neural networks require pixel-level annotations in large quantities to achieve a good performance. In the medical domain, such annotations are expensive, because they are time-consuming and require expert knowledge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Grzegorz Chlebus , Andrea Schenk , Horst K. Hahn , Bram van Ginneken , Hans Meine

To minimize the annotation costs associated with the training of semantic segmentation models, researchers have extensively investigated weakly-supervised segmentation approaches. In the current weakly-supervised segmentation methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Wataru Shimoda , Keiji Yanai

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on class activation maps (CAMs) for pseudo labels generation. As CAMs only highlight the most discriminative regions of objects, the generated pseudo labels are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

In this paper, we develop a new weakly-supervised learning algorithm to learn to segment cancerous regions in histopathology images. Our work is under a multiple instance learning framework (MIL) with a new formulation, deep weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Zhipeng Jia , Xingyi Huang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu