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Simple Does It: Weakly Supervised Instance and Semantic Segmentation

24 Mar 2016CVPR 2017 7arXiv:1603.07485archive 2025-07-28

Anna Khoreva, Rodrigo Benenson, Jan Hosang, Matthias Hein, Bernt Schiele

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 modification of the segmentation training procedure. We show that when carefully designing the input labels from given bounding boxes, even a single round of training is enough to improve over previously reported weakly supervised results. Overall, our weak supervision approach reaches ~95% of the quality of the fully supervised model, both for semantic labelling and instance segmentation.

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Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 test SID Mean IoU 72.8% #37 of 51 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 val SID Mean IoU 71.6 #28 of 29 Archive leaderboard report

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