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Autoregressive Unsupervised Image Segmentation

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Ouali, Yassine, Hudelot, Céline, Tami, Myriam·2020·Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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  • Existing unsupervised segmentation methods mainly deal with small data with limited number of categories and small diversity, and are not suitable for the LUSS task.

    “Due to insufficient data, a few unsupervised segmentation methods [28], [29], [30], [31] mainly deal with small data with limited number of categories and small diversity, thus are not suitable for the LUSS task.”

    From Large-Scale Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation (2023) · cites this paper as [28]

    Related Works (p. 4) says some GAN-based segmentation methods are limited to two classes, and Experiments (p. 10) describes evaluations using 3, 6, or 15 labels. The paper does not say that unsupervised segmentation methods generally use small or low-diversity datasets because of insufficient data, or that they are unsuitable for LUSS. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • Existing USS methods focus on small datasets and a few easy categories, so the advantages of unsupervised learning of rich representations from large-scale data are not explored.

    “1) Existing methods focus on small datasets [28], [29], [30], [31] and a few (e.g., 20+) easy categories [28] (e.g., sky and ground). Because of the insufficient data, the advantages of unsupervised learning of rich representations from large-scale data are not explored.”

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    The Experiments section (p. 10) reports using 8,550 Potsdam images and a COCO-Stuff subset reduced from 164,000 to 52,000 images, with variants of 3, 6, or 15 labels. This supports the citing sentence’s point about restricted datasets and categories for this method. The paper does not establish that existing USS methods generally focus on small datasets or that insufficient data has prevented exploration of large-scale representation learning. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  1. [4]4. Bielski, A., Favaro, P.: Emergence of object segmentation in perturbed generative models. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. pp. 7256-7266 (2019) 4
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Authors
Ouali, Y., Hudelot, C., & Tami, M.
Affiliations
École Centrale Paris (FR)
Corresponding author
Ouali, Yassine
Venue
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Published
2020
Pages
142-158
ISSN
  • 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
  • 1611-3349
OpenAlex
W3043515726
Cited by
75
References
52
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 10
FWCI
3.32
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • École Normale Supérieure
  • Université Paris-Saclay
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
Keywords
unsupervised image segmentation, mutual information maximization, autoregressive generative models, data views, representation learning, clustering, semantic segmentation

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