Seed perception learning for weakly supervised semantic segmentation
摘要
The core challenge in image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation lies in generating high-quality object localization maps from simple image labels. Class Activation Map (CAM) produced by existing methods commonly suffer from two major flaws: incomplete coverage of target regions and severe background interference. To address these issues, we present a CAM-native perception-optimization framework for weakly supervised semantic segmentation. First, design a CAM generation mechanism guided by image-level weak supervision, which refines activated regions via discriminative region enhancement and spatial noise suppression. This process promotes fine-grained pixel clustering and improves the completeness of object localization. Second, introduce a spatial cue generator to enhance the adaptability of class representations, coupled with an inter-class relation propagation module that explicitly models inter-class relationships to suppress erroneous activations and significantly reduce spatial noise. Additionally, incorporate a dynamic contrastive matching strategy to eliminate background activations closely associated with the target object, ultimately producing class activation maps that are both complete and compact. Extensive experiments on PASCAL VOC 2012 and MS COCO 2014 show that our method substantially outperforms existing weakly supervised approaches, validating the effectiveness of class-aware guidance and inter-class relational modeling in improving segmentation accuracy.