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Most state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods have to be trained on densely annotated images. While difficult in general, this requirement is especially daunting for biomedical images, where domain expertise is often required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Adrian Wolny , Qin Yu , Constantin Pape , Anna Kreshuk

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification aims to categorize each pixel in an HSI into a specific land cover class, which is crucial for applications such as remote sensing, environmental monitoring, and agriculture. Although deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Li Pang , Jing Yao , Kaiyu Li , Jun Zhou , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at grouping different semantic patterns in an image without the use of human annotation. Similarly, image clustering searches for groupings of images based on their semantic content without supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Isaac Wasserman , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Existing semantic segmentation approaches are often limited by costly pixel-wise annotations and predefined classes. In this work, we present CLIP-S$^4$ that leverages self-supervised pixel representation learning and vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Wenbin He , Suphanut Jamonnak , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

We present a novel clustering objective that learns a neural network classifier from scratch, given only unlabelled data samples. The model discovers clusters that accurately match semantic classes, achieving state-of-the-art results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Xu Ji , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

One of the main issues related to unsupervised machine learning is the cost of processing and extracting useful information from large datasets. In this work, we propose a classifier ensemble based on the transferable learning capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Luis Lucas , David Tomas , Jose Garcia-Rodriguez

We introduce a method that allows to automatically segment images into semantically meaningful regions without human supervision. Derived regions are consistent across different images and coincide with human-defined semantic classes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Daniil Pakhomov , Sanchit Hira , Narayani Wagle , Kemar E. Green , Nassir Navab

Labeling large image datasets with attributes such as facial age or object type is tedious and sometimes infeasible. Supervised machine learning methods provide a highly accurate solution, but require manual labels which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jonathan Kahana , Niv Cohen , Yedid Hoshen

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to discover and localize semantically meaningful categories within image corpora without any form of annotation. To solve this task, algorithms must produce features for every pixel that are both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mark Hamilton , Zhoutong Zhang , Bharath Hariharan , Noah Snavely , William T. Freeman

In the era of pre-trained models, effective classification can often be achieved using simple linear probing or lightweight readout layers. In contrast, many competitive clustering pipelines have a multi-modal design, leveraging large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yicen Li , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Anastasis Kratsios , Paul D. McNicholas

In this paper, we introduce a unique variant of the denoising Auto-Encoder and combine it with the perceptual loss to classify images in an unsupervised manner. The proposed method, called Pseudo Labelling, consists of first applying a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Aymene Mohammed Bouayed , Karim Atif , Rachid Deriche , Abdelhakim Saim

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze

Classifiers built upon vision-language models such as CLIP have shown remarkable zero-shot performance across a broad range of image classification tasks. Prior work has studied different ways of automatically creating descriptor sets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Piyapat Saranrittichai , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi

Semantic segmentation is a crucial step in many Earth observation tasks. Large quantity of pixel-level annotation is required to train deep networks for semantic segmentation. Earth observation techniques are applied to varieties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Sudipan Saha , Lichao Mou , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Unsupervised video class incremental learning (uVCIL) represents an important learning paradigm for learning video information without forgetting, and without considering any data labels. Prior approaches have focused on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nattapong Kurpukdee , Adrian G. Bors

This work proposes a novel method for object co-segmentation, i.e. pixel-level localization of a common object in a set of images, that uses no pixel-level supervision for training. Two pre-trained Vision Transformer (ViT) models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Nikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis , Ondřej Chum

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen

Clipping the gradient is a known approach to improving gradient descent, but requires hand selection of a clipping threshold hyperparameter. We present AutoClip, a simple method for automatically and adaptively choosing a gradient clipping…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Bryan Pardo , Jonathan Le Roux

Histopathological image classification is an important task in medical image analysis. Recent approaches generally rely on weakly supervised learning due to the ease of acquiring case-level labels from pathology reports. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Bodong Zhang , Hamid Manoochehri , Man Minh Ho , Fahimeh Fooladgar , Yosep Chong , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Deepika Sirohi , Tolga Tasdizen

In machine learning, classification is usually seen as a function approximation problem, where the goal is to learn a function that maps input features to class labels. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering and classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hrushikesh Mhaskar , Ryan O'Dowd , Efstratios Tsoukanis