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Harvesting dense pixel-level annotations to train deep neural networks for semantic segmentation is extremely expensive and unwieldy at scale. While learning from synthetic data where labels are readily available sounds promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Zuxuan Wu , Xintong Han , Yen-Liang Lin , Mustafa Gkhan Uzunbas , Tom Goldstein , Ser Nam Lim , Larry S. Davis

Present-day deep neural networks for video semantic segmentation require a large number of fine-grained pixel-level annotations to achieve the best possible results. Obtaining such annotations, however, is very expensive. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Samik Some , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Large annotated datasets are vital for training segmentation models, but pixel-level labeling is time-consuming, error-prone, and often requires scarce expert annotators, especially in medical imaging. In contrast, coarse annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Le Zhang , Fuping Wu , Arun Thirunavukarasu , Kevin Bronik , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Active Learning aims to optimize performance while minimizing annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples from an unlabelled pool. Traditional uncertainty sampling often leads to sampling bias by choosing similar uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Tejaswi Kasarla , Abhishek Jha , Faye Tervoort , Rita Cucchiara , Pascal Mettes

Image segmentation is fundamental to microstructural analysis for defect identification and structure-property correlation, yet remains challenging due to pronounced heterogeneity in materials images arising from varied processing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sanjeev S. Navaratna , Nikhil Thawari , Gunashekhar Mari , Amritha V P , Murugaiyan Amirthalingam , Rohit Batra

3D Human motion style transfer is a fundamental problem in computer graphic and animation processing. Existing AdaIN- based methods necessitate datasets with balanced style distribution and content/style labels to train the clustered latent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Lei Hu , Zihao Zhang , Yongjing Ye , Yiwen Xu , Shihong Xia

Diffusion models have been used extensively for high quality image and video generation tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel conditional diffusion model with spatial attention and latent embedding (cDAL) for medical image segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Behzad Hejrati , Soumyanil Banerjee , Carri Glide-Hurst , Ming Dong

Compared with expensive pixel-wise annotations, image-level labels make it possible to learn semantic segmentation in a weakly-supervised manner. Within this pipeline, the class activation map (CAM) is obtained and further processed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Yicong Hong , Nick Barnes

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Active learning enhances annotation efficiency by selecting the most revealing samples for labeling, thereby reducing reliance on extensive human input. Previous methods in semantic segmentation have centered on individual pixels or small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinchao Ge , Zeyu Zhang , Minh Hieu Phan , Bowen Zhang , Akide Liu , Yang Zhao , Shuwen Zhao

Large-scale data is of crucial importance for learning semantic segmentation models, but annotating per-pixel masks is a tedious and inefficient procedure. We note that for the topic of interactive image segmentation, scribbles are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Di Lin , Jifeng Dai , Jiaya Jia , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

Active learning selects the most informative samples to exploit limited annotation budgets. Existing work follows a cumbersome pipeline that repeats the time-consuming model training and batch data selection multiple times. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yichen Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

An active learning algorithm for the classification of high-dimensional images is proposed in which spatially-regularized nonlinear diffusion geometry is used to characterize cluster cores. The proposed method samples from estimated cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 James M. Murphy

Active learning is considered a viable solution to alleviate the contradiction between the high dependency of deep learning-based segmentation methods on annotated data and the expensive pixel-level annotation cost of medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jun Shi , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Hong An , Xudong Xue , Bing Yan

Due to real-time image semantic segmentation needs on power constrained edge devices, there has been an increasing desire to design lightweight semantic segmentation neural network, to simultaneously reduce computational cost and increase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Qihang Yang , Tao Chen , Jiayuan Fan , Ye Lu , Chongyan Zuo , Qinghua Chi

Self-training has greatly facilitated domain adaptive semantic segmentation, which iteratively generates pseudo labels on unlabeled target data and retrains the network. However, realistic segmentation datasets are highly imbalanced, pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Binhui Xie , Longhui Yuan , Shuang Li , Chi Harold Liu , Xinjing Cheng

Scribble-based weakly-supervised semantic segmentation using sparse scribble supervision is gaining traction as it reduces annotation costs when compared to fully annotated alternatives. Existing methods primarily generate pseudo-labels by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Lujia Jin , Yanye Lu

Fetal ultrasound (US) data is often limited due to privacy and regulatory restrictions, posing challenges for training deep learning (DL) models. While semi-supervised learning (SSL) is commonly used for fetal US image analysis, existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Fangyijie Wang , Siteng Ma , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

High-resolution semantic segmentation requires substantial computational resources. Traditional approaches in the field typically downscale the input images before processing and then upscale the low-resolution outputs back to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Ritambhara Singh , Abhishek Jain , Pietro Perona , Shivani Agarwal , Junfeng Yang

Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo