Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD)

A paper list of state-of-the-art weakly supervised object detection or localization.

Relevant Repositories

• Deep Learning Object Detection
• Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
• Weakly-/Semi-Supervised Learning in Computer Vision
• Weakly-Supervised-Object-Localization
• WSOD Paper List

Table of Contents

• 2015
• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2020

Before 2015

• Weakly Supervised Localization and Learning with Generic Knowledge. [IJCV 2012] [pdf]

• Bayesian Joint Topic Modelling for Weakly Supervised Object Localisation. [ICCV 2013] [pdf]

• Multi-fold MIL Training for Weakly Supervised Object Localization. [CVPR 2014] [pdf]

• [ICL] Weakly Supervised Object Localization with Latent Category Learning. [ECCV 2014] [pdf]

• On learning to localize objects with minimal supervision. [ICML 2014] [pdf]

• Is object localization for free? - Weakly-supervised learning with convolutional neural networks. [CVPR 2015] [pdf]

• Weakly supervised object detection with convex clustering. [CVPR 2015] [pdf]

2016

• [WSDDN] Weakly Supervised Deep Detection Networks. [CVPR 2016] [pdf] [official code-matlab] [unofficial code-torch] [unofficial code-torch]

• [ProNet] ProNet: Learning to Propose Object-Specific Boxes for Cascaded Neural Networks. [CVPR 2016] [pdf]

• Weakly Supervised Object Localization with Progressive Domain Adaptation. [CVPR 2016] [pdf] [official code-caffe]

• [WELDON] WELDON: Weakly Supervised Learning of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. [CVPR 2016] [pdf] [official code-torch]

• [ContextLocNet] ContextLocNet: Context-Aware Deep Network Models for Weakly Supervised Localization. [ECCV 2016] [pdf] [official code-caffe]

• Weakly Supervised Localization using Deep Feature Maps. [ECCV 2016] [pdf]

• Weakly Supervised Object Localization Using Size Estimates. [ECCV 2016] [pdf]

• Bridging saliency detection to weakly supervised object detection based on self-paced curriculum learning. [IJCAI 2016] [pdf]

2017

• [WCCN] Weakly Supervised Cascaded Convolutional Networks. [CVPR 2017] [pdf]

• [OICR] Multiple Instance Detection Network with Online Instance Classifier Refinement. [CVPR 2017] [pdf] [official code-caffe] [unofficial code-torch] [unofficial code-torch]

• [GPMIL] Variational Bayesian Multiple Instance Learning With Gaussian Processes. [CVPR 2017] [pdf] [official code]

• [SPN] Soft Proposal Networks for Weakly Supervised Object Localization. [CVPR 2017] [pdf] [official code-torch]

• Deep Self-Taught Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Localization. [CVPR 2017] [pdf]

• A Dual-Network Progressive Approach to Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [MM 2017] [pdf]

• Weakly Supervised Object Localization with Multi-Fold Multiple Instance Learning. [TPAMI 2017] [pdf]

• [MICL] Multiple Instance Curriculum Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [2017] [pdf]

2018

• Multi-evidence Filtering and Fusion for Multi-label Classification, Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation Based on Weakly Supervised Learning. [CVPR 2018] [pdf]
• Zigzag Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [CVPR 2018] [pdf]
• [W2F] W2F: A Weakly-Supervised to Fully-Supervised Framework for Object Detection. [CVPR 2018] [pdf]
• [PCL] PCL: Proposal Cluster Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [TPAMI 2018] [pdf] [official code-caffe] [official code-torch]
• Cross-Domain Weakly-Supervised Object Detection through Progressive Domain Adaptation. [CVPR 2018] [pdf] [official code]
• Weakly Supervised Region Proposal Network and Object Detection. [ECCV 2018] [pdf]
• [TS2C] TS2C: Tight Box Mining with Surrounding Segmentation Context for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [ 2018] [pdf]

2019

• [ADWSOD] Activity Driven Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [CVPR 2019] [pdf]
• Utilizing the Instability in Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [CVPR 2019] [pdf]
• [WS-JDS] Cyclic Guidance for Weakly Supervised Joint Detection and Segmentation. [CVPR 2019] [pdf] [official code-caffe]
• [W-RPN] You Reap What You Sow: Using Videos to Generate High Precision Object Proposals for Weakly-Supervised Object Detection. [CVPR 2019] [pdf] [official code]
• Dissimilarity Coefficient based Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [CVPR 2019] [pdf]
• [C-MIL] C-MIL: Continuation Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [CVPR 2019] [pdf] [official code-torch]
• [WSOD2] WSOD2: Learning Bottom-Up and Top-Down Objectness Distillation for Weakly-Supervised Object Detection. [ICCV 2019] [pdf]
• Object-Aware Instance Labeling for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [ICCV 2019] [pdf]
• [C-MIDN] C-MIDN: Coupled Multiple Instance Detection Network With Segmentation Guidance for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [ICCV 2019] [pdf]
• Towards Precise End-to-End Weakly Supervised Object Detection Network. [ICCV 2019] [pdf]
• [SDCN] Weakly Supervised Object Detection With Segmentation Collaboration. [ICCV 2019] [pdf]
• [MELM] Min-entropy latent model for weakly supervised object detection. [TPAMI 2019] [pdf] [official code-torch]
• Self Paced Deep Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [PAML 2019] [pdf] [official code-caffe]
• [CSC] Category-Aware Spatial Constraint for Weakly Supervised Detection. [ TIP 2019] [pdf] [official code-caffe]
• [PSNet] WSOD with PSNet and Box Regression. [ 2019] [pdf]

2020

• High-Quality Proposals for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [TIP 2020]

• Progressive Representation Adaptation for Weakly Supervised Object Localization. [PAMI 2020] [pdf]

• Instance-Aware, Context-Focused, and Memory-Efficient Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [CVPR 2020] [pdf] [official code]

• [SLV] SLV: Spatial Likelihood Voting for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [CVPR 2020] [pdf]

• [OIM] Object Instance Mining for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [AAI 2020] [pdf] [official code-caffe]

• [BOICR] Distilling Knowledge from Refinement in Multiple Instance Detection Networks. [Deep Vision 2020 CVPR workshop] [pdf] [official code-torch]

• [WSOD Transfer] Boosting Weakly Supervised Object Detection with Progressive Knowledge Transfer. [ECCV 2020] [pdf] [official code-torch]

• [EIL] Erasing Integrated Learning : A Simple yet Effective Approach for Weakly Supervised Object Localization. [ CVPR 2020] [pdf]

• [PSOL] Rethinking the Route Towards Weakly Supervised Object Localization. [CVPR 2020] [pdf]

• [CASD] Comprehensive Attention Self-Distillation for Weakly-Supervised Object Detection. [NIPS 2020] [pdf] [official code-torch]

• Enabling Deep Residual Networks for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [ECCV 2020] [official code-caffe] [official code-torch]

• [UWSOD] UWSOD: Toward Fully-Supervised-Level Capacity Weakly Supervised Object Detection. [NIPS 2020]

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