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Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Simon Reiß , Constantin Seibold , Alexander Freytag , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

The pixel-wise dense prediction tasks based on weakly supervisions currently use Class Attention Maps (CAM) to generate pseudo masks as ground-truth. However, the existing methods typically depend on the painstaking training modules, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

In this paper, we introduce Semantic-SAM, a universal image segmentation model to enable segment and recognize anything at any desired granularity. Our model offers two key advantages: semantic-awareness and granularity-abundance. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Peize Sun , Xueyan Zou , Shilong Liu , Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao

This paper proposes a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation method using image-level label only. The class-specific activation maps from the well-trained classifiers are used as cues to train a segmentation network. The well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Ting Sun , Lei Tai , Zhihan Gao , Ming Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Segmentation using deep learning has shown promising directions in medical imaging as it aids in the analysis and diagnosis of diseases. Nevertheless, a main drawback of deep models is that they require a large amount of pixel-level labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Sukesh Adiga , Jose Dolz , Herve Lombaert

Most weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods follow the pipeline that generates pseudo-masks initially and trains the segmentation model with the pseudo-masks in fully supervised manner after. However, we find some matters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yi Li , Zhanghui Kuang , Liyang Liu , Yimin Chen , Wayne Zhang

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

Semantic segmentation is essential for automating remote sensing analysis in fields like ecology. However, fine-grained analysis of complex aerial or underwater imagery remains an open challenge, even for state-of-the-art models. Progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Cesar Borja , Carlos Plou , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Ana C. Murillo

Semantic segmentation is an important and popular research area in computer vision that focuses on classifying pixels in an image based on their semantics. However, supervised deep learning requires large amounts of data to train models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lingyan Ran , Yali Li , Guoqiang Liang , Yanning Zhang

Segmentation in medical imaging is an essential and often preliminary task in the image processing chain, driving numerous efforts towards the design of robust segmentation algorithms. Supervised learning methods achieve excellent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Pierre Rougé , Pierre-Henri Conze , Nicolas Passat , Odyssée Merveille

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) trained on a large number of images with strong pixel-level annotations have recently significantly pushed the state-of-art in semantic image segmentation. We study the more challenging problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-07 George Papandreou , Liang-Chieh Chen , Kevin Murphy , Alan L. Yuille

Pixel-level annotations are expensive and time consuming to obtain. Hence, weak supervision using only image tags could have a significant impact in semantic segmentation. Recently, CNN-based methods have proposed to fine-tune pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Jose M. Alvarez , Stephen Gould

Existing weakly or semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods utilize image or box-level supervision to generate pseudo-labels for weakly labeled images. However, due to the lack of strong supervision, the generated pseudo-labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Sen Jia , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil D. B. Bruce

Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Obtaining accurate labels for instance segmentation is particularly challenging due to the complex nature of the task. Each image necessitates multiple annotations, encompassing not only the object class but also its precise spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Moshe Kimhi , Omer Kerem , Eden Grad , Ehud Rivlin , Chaim Baskin

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

We present a novel confidence refinement scheme that enhances pseudo labels in semi-supervised semantic segmentation. Unlike existing methods, which filter pixels with low-confidence predictions in isolation, our approach leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Moshe Kimhi , Shai Kimhi , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Or Litany , Chaim Baskin

In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limits the quantity of labels available for training in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Tarun Kalluri , Girish Varma , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

A major obstacle in instance segmentation is that existing methods often need many per-pixel labels in order to be effective. These labels require large human effort and for certain applications, such labels are not readily available. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Issam H. Laradji , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt