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48 results for unsupervised segmentation

This research shows unsupervised GANs can perform object segmentation without labels.

problem Performing object segmentation without pixel or image-level labels.
method Used large-scale unsupervised GAN models to differentiate foreground from background.
result Demonstrated high-quality saliency masks and new state-of-the-art performance.

Unsupervised segmentation learns features without labels, improving accuracy.

problem Discover and localize semantically meaningful categories in images without annotations.
method Separates feature learning from cluster compactification; distills unsupervised features into discrete semantic labels using a contrastive loss function.
result Significant improvement over prior state of the art on semantic segmentation challenges.

Embed-KCPD segments text without labels, outperforming baselines.

problem Unsupervised text segmentation is challenging due to lack of boundary labels.
method Embed-KCPD represents sentences as embeddings and estimates boundaries via penalized KCPD.
result Embed-KCPD outperforms strong unsupervised baselines across benchmarks.

New model combines ICA and HMM for unsupervised learning of nonstationary time series.

problem Manual segmentation of non-stationary data is computationally expensive and inaccurate.
method Combines Hidden Markov Model with nonlinear ICA for unsupervised learning.
result Proves identifiability of the model for general mixing nonlinearity.

TokenCut detects and segments objects in images and videos without supervision.

problem Detecting and segmenting salient objects in images and videos without labeled data.
method Graph-based approach using self-supervised transformer features and Normalized Cut algorithm.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on various detection and segmentation tasks.

This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation. Specifically, we use unsupervised motion-based segmentation on videos to obtain segme…

2016-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework automates microstructure image analysis for materials science.

problem Complex microstructures in materials require automated analysis.
method Combines unsupervised and supervised learning for classification and segmentation.
result Framework can automatically segment and classify micrographs.

In this paper, we consider unsupervised partitioning problems, such as clustering, image segmentation, video segmentation and other change-point detection problems. We focus on partitioning problems based explicitly or implicitly on the minimization of Euclidean distortions, which include mean-based change-point detect…

2013-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

GENESIS-V2 infers unordered object representations without iterative refinement.

problem Unsupervised learning of unordered object representations for complex images.
method Stochastic stick-breaking process for clustering pixel embeddings.
result GENESIS-V2 outperforms recent baselines in unsupervised image segmentation and scene generation.

Inspired by trading, this method segments time series efficiently.

problem Time series segmentation for multivariate data.
method Normalize time series, treat each channel as a stock, use a posteriori trading signals for segmentation.
result Proposed method is faster and produces more intuitive results than existing models.

Generative models learn from unlabeled videos via object segmentation and scene modeling.

problem Learning generative models from unlabelled videos.
method Decomposed into three subtasks: motion segmentation, background and foreground modeling, and scene sampling.
result Approach allows learning models that generalize beyond occlusions and represent scenes in a modular fashion.

Proposes KIL-AdaVAE for fault detection and segmentation of unknown fault types.

problem Lack of labeled data for fault types in safety-critical systems.
method Implicit supervision with Deep Variational Autoencoders (VAE).
result Significant performance improvements in fault detection and segmentation.

Recent state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are mostly based on deep neural networks, thanks to their high performance and fast computation time. However, these methods are usually trained in a supervised manner, which requires large number of high quality ground-truth segmentation masks. On the other hand, c…

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method learns behavioral representations from mobility data.

problem Analyzing behavioral similarity of moving individuals from CDR trajectories.
method mob2vec framework combining segmentation, generalization, and unsupervised learning.
result Mob2vec generates low-dimensional vector representations preserving mobility behavior similarities.

DVNet efficiently segments large neurovascular datasets using skip connections.

problem Challenges in segmenting large neurovascular datasets from high-throughput microscopy data.
method A fully-convolutional, deep, and densely-connected encoder-decoder network with skip connections.
result DVNet achieves superior performance in semantic segmentation of neurovascular datasets.

A system is presented that segments, clusters and predicts musical audio in an unsupervised manner, adjusting the number of (timbre) clusters instantaneously to the audio input. A sequence learning algorithm adapts its structure to a dynamically changing clustering tree. The flow of the system is as follows: 1) segment…

2015-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method uncovers intrinsic data structures for unsupervised domain adaptation.

problem Learning domain-aligned features can damage intrinsic target discrimination.
method Structurally Regularized Deep Clustering (H-SRDC) integrating structural source regularization.
result H-SRDC outperforms existing methods in image classification and semantic segmentation.

In spectral clustering and spectral image segmentation, the data is partioned starting from a given matrix of pairwise similarities S. the matrix S is constructed by hand, or learned on a separate training set. In this paper we show how to achieve spectral clustering in unsupervised mode. Our algorithm starts with a se…

2012-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce Compositional Imitation Learning and Execution (CompILE): a framework for learning reusable, variable-length segments of hierarchically-structured behavior from demonstration data. CompILE uses a novel unsupervised, fully-differentiable sequence segmentation module to learn latent encodings of sequential d…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Object segmentation is a crucial problem that is usually solved by using supervised learning approaches over very large datasets composed of both images and corresponding object masks. Since the masks have to be provided at pixel level, building such a dataset for any new domain can be very time-consuming. We present R…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Active learning improves subspace clustering with less labeled data.

problem Efficiently incorporating labeled data to improve subspace clustering models.
method Proposes an active learning framework for subspace clustering that queries informative points and updates the subspace model.
result Demonstrates the advantage of the proposed active strategy over state-of-the-art methods.

SEG-BERT improves graph instance learning by adapting GRAPH-BERT.

problem Graph instance representation learning challenges due to diverse sizes and node order.
method Adapted GRAPH-BERT with a segmented architecture to handle graph node orderlessness and diverse sizes.
result SEG-BERT outperforms comparison methods on six out of seven benchmark datasets.

This study improves user segmentation for online news recommendation systems.

problem Challenges in building modern recommender systems due to dynamic environments and data sparsity.
method Trend-responsive unsupervised user segmentation using multi-armed bandits.
result Significant improvements in online A/B tests compared to global-optimization algorithms.

In this work, we connect two distinct concepts for unsupervised domain adaptation: feature distribution alignment between domains by utilizing the task-specific decision boundary and the Wasserstein metric. Our proposed sliced Wasserstein discrepancy (SWD) is designed to capture the natural notion of dissimilarity betw…

2019-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗