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This paper considers a semi-supervised learning framework for weakly labeled polyphonic sound event detection problems for the DCASE 2019 challenge's task4 by combining both the tri-training and adversarial learning. The goal of the task4…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Hyoungwoo Park , Sungrack Yun , Jungyun Eum , Janghoon Cho , Kyuwoong Hwang

Most recent studies on detecting and localizing temporal anomalies have mainly employed deep neural networks to learn the normal patterns of temporal data in an unsupervised manner. Unlike them, the goal of our work is to fully utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dongha Lee , Sehun Yu , Hyunjun Ju , Hwanjo Yu

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

Most activity localization methods in the literature suffer from the burden of frame-wise annotation requirement. Learning from weak labels may be a potential solution towards reducing such manual labeling effort. Recent years have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sujoy Paul , Sourya Roy , Amit K Roy-Chowdhury

Accurate detection of offensive content on social media demands high-quality labeled data; however, such data is often scarce due to the low prevalence of offensive instances and the high cost of manual annotation. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Han Wang , Deyi Ji , Junyu Lu , Lanyun Zhu , Hailong Zhang , Haiyang Wu , Liqun Liu , Peng Shu , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Weakly-Supervised Concealed Object Segmentation (WSCOS) aims to segment objects well blended with surrounding environments using sparsely-annotated data for model training. It remains a challenging task since (1) it is hard to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Guoxia Xu , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Programmatic Weak Supervision (PWS) enables supervised model training without direct access to ground truth labels, utilizing weak labels from heuristics, crowdsourcing, or pre-trained models. However, the absence of ground truth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-01 Felipe Maia Polo , Subha Maity , Mikhail Yurochkin , Moulinath Banerjee , Yuekai Sun

Deep learning (DL) models have become increasingly popular in identifying software vulnerabilities. Prior studies found that vulnerabilities across different vulnerable programs may exhibit similar vulnerable scopes, implicitly forming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Michael Fu , Trung Le , Van Nguyen , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Dinh Phung

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

Audio tagging aims to perform multi-label classification on audio chunks and it is a newly proposed task in the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2016 (DCASE 2016) challenge. This task encourages research efforts to…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Qiang Huang , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

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

Weakly-supervised action localization aims to recognize and localize action instancese in untrimmed videos with only video-level labels. Most existing models rely on multiple instance learning(MIL), where the predictions of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Guiqin Wang , Peng Zhao , Cong Zhao , Shusen Yang , Jie Cheng , Luziwei Leng , Jianxing Liao , Qinghai Guo

Most existing approaches to training object detectors rely on fully supervised learning, which requires the tedious manual annotation of object location in a training set. Recently there has been an increasing interest in developing weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Zhiyuan Shi , Parthipan Siva , Tao Xiang

The rapid development of deep learning has driven significant progress in image semantic segmentation - a fundamental task in computer vision. Semantic segmentation algorithms often depend on the availability of pixel-level labels (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

Weakly supervised object detection has recently received much attention, since it only requires image-level labels instead of the bounding-box labels consumed in strongly supervised learning. Nevertheless, the save in labeling expense is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Jiajie Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Rui Zhang

Multiple instance learning (MIL) problem is currently solved from either bag-classification or instance-classification perspective, both of which ignore important information contained in some instances and result in limited performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yingfan Ma , Xiaoyuan Luo , Mingzhi Yuan , Xinrong Chen , Manning Wang

Weakly Supervised Sound Event Detection (WSSED), which relies on audio tags without precise onset and offset times, has become prevalent due to the scarcity of strongly labeled data that includes exact temporal boundaries for events. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Yuliang Zhang , Defeng , Huang , Roberto Togneri

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal events in videos using only video-level labels. Recently, two-stage self-training methods have achieved significant improvements by self-generating pseudo labels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Chen Zhang , Guorong Li , Yuankai Qi , Shuhui Wang , Laiyun Qing , Qingming Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image-level weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) reduces the usually vast data annotation cost by surrogate segmentation masks during training. The typical approach involves training an image classification network using global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Arvi Jonnarth , Yushan Zhang , Michael Felsberg

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) leverages abundant unlabeled data alongside limited labeled data to enhance learning. As vision foundation models (VFMs) increasingly serve as the backbone of vision applications, it remains unclear how SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Ping Zhang , Zheda Mai , Quang-Huy Nguyen , Wei-Lun Chao