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Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has recently attracted considerable attention because it requires fewer annotations than fully supervised approaches, making it especially promising for large-scale image segmentation tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Lechao Cheng , Zerun Liu , Jingxuan He , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Meng Wang

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is challenging, particularly when image-level labels are used to supervise pixel level prediction. To bridge their gap, a Class Activation Map (CAM) is usually generated to provide pixel level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Zheyuan Liu , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes

The fully convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture has been the standard paradigm for semantic segmentation. The encoder-decoder architecture utilizes an encoder to capture multilevel feature maps, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang

Recently, transformer-based models have demonstrated remarkable performance on audio-visual segmentation (AVS) tasks. However, their expensive computational cost makes real-time inference impractical. By characterizing attention maps of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zili Wang , Qi Yang , Linsu Shi , Jiazhong Yu , Qinghua Liang , Fei Li , Shiming Xiang

In industrial settings, weakly supervised (WS) methods are usually preferred over their fully supervised (FS) counterparts as they do not require costly manual annotations. Unfortunately, the segmentation masks obtained in the WS regime are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Andrea Marelli , Luca Magri , Federica Arrigoni , Giacomo Boracchi

Few-shot classification which aims to recognize unseen classes using very limited samples has attracted more and more attention. Usually, it is formulated as a metric learning problem. The core issue of few-shot classification is how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xixi Wang , Xiao Wang , Bo Jiang , Bin Luo

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation has been a subject of increased interest due to the scarcity of fully annotated images. We introduce a new approach for solving weakly supervised semantic segmentation with deep Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Rania Briq , Michael Moeller , Juergen Gall

Typical vision backbones manipulate structured features. As a compromise, semantic segmentation has long been modeled as per-point prediction on dense regular grids. In this work, we present a novel and efficient modeling that starts from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yifan Zhang , Bo Pang , Cewu Lu

Despite the remarkable progress, weakly supervised segmentation approaches are still inferior to their fully supervised counterparts. We obverse the performance gap mainly comes from their limitation on learning to produce high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yunchao Wei , Huaxin Xiao , Honghui Shi , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Thomas S. Huang

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

Semantic labelling and instance segmentation are two tasks that require particularly costly annotations. Starting from weak supervision in the form of bounding box detection annotations, we propose a new approach that does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Anna Khoreva , Rodrigo Benenson , Jan Hosang , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Acoustic borehole images provide high-resolution borehole-wall structure, but large-scale interpretation remains difficult because dense expert annotations are rarely available and subsurface information is intrinsically multimodal. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jose Luis Lima de Jesus Silva

Weak spectral responses in hyperspectral images are often obscured by dominant endmembers and sensor noise, resulting in inaccurate abundance estimation. This paper introduces WS-Net, a deep unmixing framework specifically designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zekun Long , Ali Zia , Guanyiman Fu , Vivien Rolland , Jun Zhou

Accurate automatic medical image segmentation relies on high-quality, dense annotations, which are costly and time-consuming. Weakly supervised learning provides a more efficient alternative by leveraging sparse and coarse annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li , Hao Wu , Suqing Tian , Wenjun Ma , Guoping Wang , Xueqing Yan

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in new approaches improving the accuracy of semantic segmentation in a weakly supervised setting, i.e. with only image-level labels available for training. However, this has come at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Nikita Araslanov , Stefan Roth

This work proposes a novel approach beyond supervised learning for effective pathological image analysis, addressing the challenge of limited robust labeled data. Pathological diagnosis of diseases like cancer has conventionally relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Joohyeok Kim , Sangmin Lee

Accurate semantic segmentation of urban remote sensing images (URSIs) is essential for urban planning and environmental monitoring. However, it remains challenging due to the subtle texture differences and similar spatial structures among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guoyu Zhou , Jing Zhang , Yi Yan , Hui Zhang , Li Zhuo

Transformers, known for their attention mechanisms, have proven highly effective in focusing on critical elements within complex data. This feature can effectively be used to address the time-varying channels in wireless communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Matin Mortaheb , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Sennur Ulukus

Instance segmentation is a fundamental research in computer vision, especially in autonomous driving. However, manual mask annotation for instance segmentation is quite time-consuming and costly. To address this problem, some prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuzhi Wu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Weak supervision (WS) frameworks are a popular way to bypass hand-labeling large datasets for training data-hungry models. These approaches synthesize multiple noisy but cheaply-acquired estimates of labels into a set of high-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Changho Shin , Winfred Li , Harit Vishwakarma , Nicholas Roberts , Frederic Sala