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Class Activation Mapping (CAM) methods have recently gained much attention for weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) tasks. They allow for CNN visualization and interpretation without training on fully annotated image datasets. CAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Soufiane Belharbi , Aydin Sarraf , Marco Pedersoli , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects using only image-level labels. Recently a new paradigm has emerged by generating a foreground prediction map (FPM) to achieve localization task. Existing FPM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Pingyu Wu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao

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

Localizing objects with weak supervision in an image is a key problem of the research in computer vision community. Many existing Weakly-Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) approaches tackle this problem by estimating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Pei Lv , Haiyu Yu , Junxiao Xue , Junjin Cheng , Lisha Cui , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang

We address a practical yet challenging problem of training robot agents to navigate in an environment following a path described by some language instructions. The instructions often contain descriptions of objects in the environment. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Peihao Chen , Dongyu Ji , Kunyang Lin , Runhao Zeng , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

In this work, we focus on the task of weakly supervised affordance grounding, where a model is trained to identify affordance regions on objects using human-object interaction images and egocentric object images without dense labels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Peiran Xu , Yadong Mu

Weakly supervised instance segmentation (WSIS) using only image-level labels is a challenging task due to the difficulty of aligning coarse annotations with the finer task. However, with the advancement of deep neural networks (DNNs), WSIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Zecheng Li , Zening Zeng , Yuqi Liang , Jin-Gang Yu

Weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) enables finding an object using a dataset without any localization information. By simply training a classification model using only image-level annotations, the feature map of the model can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jeesoo Kim , Junsuk Choe , Sangdoo Yun , Nojun Kwak

Unlike fully supervised semantic segmentation, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on weaker forms of supervision to perform dense prediction tasks. Among the various types of weak supervision, WSSS with image level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Wang Zhang

Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) methods, reliant on image-level labels indicating object presence, lack explicit correspondence between labels and regions of interest (ROIs), posing a significant challenge. Despite this, WSS methods…

Weakly supervised instance segmentation using only bounding box annotations has recently attracted much research attention. Most of the current efforts leverage low-level image features as extra supervision without explicitly exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Ruihuang Li , Chenhang He , Yabin Zhang , Shuai Li , Liyi Chen , Lei Zhang

Recently, increasing efforts have been focused on Weakly Supervised Scene Graph Generation (WSSGG). The mainstream solution for WSSGG typically follows the same pipeline: they first align text entities in the weak image-level supervisions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xingchen Li , Long Chen , Wenbo Ma , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

This paper presents a fresh perspective on the role of saliency maps in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) and offers new insights and research directions based on our empirical findings. We conduct comprehensive experiments and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Beomyoung Kim , Donghyun Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

We propose an approach to discover class-specific pixels for the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation task. We show that properly combining saliency and attention maps allows us to obtain reliable cues capable of significantly boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Arslan Chaudhry , Puneet K. Dokania , Philip H. S. Torr

Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS) aligns audio and video at the pixel level but requires costly per-frame annotations. We introduce Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (WSAVSS), which uses only video-level labels to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chengzhi Li , Heyan Huang , Ping Jian , Yanghao Zhou

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels aims to achieve segmentation tasks without dense annotations. However, attributed to the frequent coupling of co-occurring objects and the limited supervision from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Zhiwei Yang , Kexue Fu , Minghong Duan , Linhao Qu , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging problem that has been deeply studied in recent years. Most of advanced solutions exploit class activation map (CAM). However, CAMs can hardly serve as the object mask due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yude Wang , Jie Zhang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Weakly supervised object localization and semantic segmentation aim to localize objects using only image-level labels. Recently, a new paradigm has emerged by generating a foreground prediction map (FPM) to achieve pixel-level localization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Wei Zhai , Pingyu Wu , Kai Zhu , Yang Cao , Feng Wu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Interpreting complex deep networks, notably pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), is a formidable challenge. Current Class Activation Map (CAM) methods highlight regions revealing the model's decision-making basis but lack clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yuguang Yang , Runtang Guo , Sheng Wu , Yimi Wang , Linlin Yang , Bo Fan , Jilong Zhong , Juan Zhang , Baochang Zhang

Extracting class activation maps (CAM) from a classification model often results in poor coverage on foreground objects, i.e., only the discriminative region (e.g., the "head" of "sheep") is recognized and the rest (e.g., the "leg" of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun