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Microscopy image analysis often requires the segmentation of objects, but training data for this task is typically scarce and hard to obtain. Here we propose DenoiSeg, a new method that can be trained end-to-end on only a few annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Tim-Oliver Buchholz , Mangal Prakash , Alexander Krull , Florian Jug

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

The performance of state-of-the-art object detectors degrades significantly under adverse weather, causing a safety-critical domain shift problem for autonomous vehicles. Recent efforts address this problem by relying on synthetic data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hamed Khatounabadi , Xiaohu Lu , Hayder Radha

Complex Video Object Segmentation (VOS) presents significant challenges in accurately segmenting objects across frames, especially in the presence of small and similar targets, frequent occlusions, rapid motion, and complex interactions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 An Yan , Leilei Cao , Feng Lu , Ran Hong , Youhai Jiang , Fengjie Zhu

We present Polite Teacher, a simple yet effective method for the task of semi-supervised instance segmentation. The proposed architecture relies on the Teacher-Student mutual learning framework. To filter out noisy pseudo-labels, we use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dominik Filipiak , Andrzej Zapała , Piotr Tempczyk , Anna Fensel , Marek Cygan

Semi-supervised learning aims to leverage a large amount of unlabeled data for performance boosting. Existing works primarily focus on image classification. In this paper, we delve into semi-supervised learning for object detection, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhenyu Wang , Yali Li , Ye Guo , Shengjin Wang

Active learning selects informative samples for annotation within budget, which has proven efficient recently on object detection. However, the widely used active detection benchmarks conduct image-level evaluation, which is unrealistic in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Mengyao Lyu , Jundong Zhou , Hui Chen , Yijie Huang , Dongdong Yu , Yaqian Li , Yandong Guo , Yuchen Guo , Liuyu Xiang , Guiguang Ding

Accurate tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging remain challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, and diverse lesion morphology. This study presents a multi-task deep learning framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Samuel E. Johnny , Bernes L. Atabonfack , Israel Alagbe , Assane Gueye

It is important to learn various types of classifiers given training data with noisy labels. Noisy labels, in the most popular noise model hitherto, are corrupted from ground-truth labels by an unknown noise transition matrix. Thus, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Bo Han , Jiangchao Yao , Gang Niu , Mingyuan Zhou , Ivor Tsang , Ya Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

It is expensive and labour-extensive to label the pixel-wise object masks in a video. As a result, the amount of pixel-wise annotations in existing video instance segmentation (VIS) datasets is small, limiting the generalization capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Minghan Li , Lei Zhang

Event-based semantic segmentation has gained popularity due to its capability to deal with scenarios under high-speed motion and extreme lighting conditions, which cannot be addressed by conventional RGB cameras. Since it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Linglin Jing , Yiming Ding , Yunpeng Gao , Zhigang Wang , Xu Yan , Dong Wang , Gerald Schaefer , Hui Fang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Deep convolutional neural networks have driven substantial advancements in the automatic understanding of images. Requiring a large collection of images and their associated annotations is one of the main bottlenecks limiting the adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zahra Mirikharaji , Yiqi Yan , Ghassan Hamarneh

Vision foundation models such as Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) and Segment Anything (SAM) have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on image classification and segmentation tasks. However, the incorporation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Runnan Chen , Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Nenglun Chen , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Tongliang Liu , Wenping Wang

The recent emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) enables various domain-specific segmentation tasks to be tackled cost-effectively by using bounding boxes as prompts. However, in scene text segmentation, SAM can not achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Enze Xie , Jiaho Lyu , Daiqing Wu , Huawen Shen , Yu Zhou

The crux of semi-supervised semantic segmentation is to assign adequate pseudo-labels to the pixels of unlabeled images. A common practice is to select the highly confident predictions as the pseudo ground-truth, but it leads to a problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yuchao Wang , Haochen Wang , Yujun Shen , Jingjing Fei , Wei Li , Guoqiang Jin , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Xinyi Le

Nodule segmentation from breast ultrasound images is challenging yet essential for the diagnosis. Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) can help reduce time-consuming and cumbersome manual annotation. Unlike existing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Yuxin Zou , Chaoyu Chen , Jian Wang , Haoran Dou , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Jianqiao Zhou , Dong Ni

Deep learning has achieved impressive results in nuclei segmentation, but the massive requirement for pixel-wise labels remains a significant challenge. To alleviate the annotation burden, existing methods generate pseudo masks for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ziyue Wang , Ye Zhang , Yifeng Wang , Linghan Cai , Yongbing Zhang

For object detection, it is possible to view the prediction of bounding boxes as a reverse diffusion process. Using a diffusion model, the random bounding boxes are iteratively refined in a denoising step, conditioned on the image. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Leander van den Heuvel , Gertjan Burghouts , David W. Zhang , Gwenn Englebienne , Sabina B. van Rooij

Designing robust algorithms capable of training accurate neural networks on uncurated datasets from the web has been the subject of much research as it reduces the need for time consuming human labor. The focus of many previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Paul Albert , Eric Arazo , Tarun Krishna , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Weakly supervised image segmentation approaches in the literature usually achieve high segmentation performance using tight bounding box supervision and decrease the performance greatly when supervised by loose bounding boxes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Juan Wang , Bin Xia