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ISIM: Iterative Self-Improved Model for Weakly Supervised Segmentation

22 Nov 2022arXiv:2211.12455archive 2025-07-28

Cenk Bircanoglu, Nafiz Arica

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging task aiming to learn the segmentation labels from class-level labels. In the literature, exploiting the information obtained from Class Activation Maps (CAMs) is widely used for WSSS studies. However, as CAMs are obtained from a classification network, they are interested in the most discriminative parts of the objects, producing non-complete prior information for segmentation tasks. In this study, to obtain more coherent CAMs with segmentation labels, we propose a framework that employs an iterative approach in a modified encoder-decoder-based segmentation model, which simultaneously supports classification and segmentation tasks. As no ground-truth segmentation labels are given, the same model also generates the pseudo-segmentation labels with the help of dense Conditional Random Fields (dCRF). As a result, the proposed framework becomes an iterative self-improved model. The experiments performed with DeepLabv3 and UNet models show a significant gain on the Pascal VOC12 dataset, and the DeepLabv3 application increases the current state-of-the-art metric by %2.5. The implementation associated with the experiments can be found: https://github.com/cenkbircanoglu/isim.

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DecoderSegmentationSemantic SegmentationWeakly supervised Semantic SegmentationWeakly supervised segmentationWeakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 test ISIM (ResNeSt-200) Mean IoU 74.98 #8 of 60 Archive leaderboard report
Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 test ISIM (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 71.45 #28 of 60 Archive leaderboard report
Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 val ISIM (ResNeSt-200) Mean IoU 74.90 #10 of 73 Archive leaderboard report
Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 val ISIM (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 70.51 #38 of 73 Archive leaderboard report

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1x1 ConvolutionASPPBatch NormalizationDeepLabv3Dilated ConvolutionSpatial Pyramid Pooling

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