# Learning Semantic Segmentation with Diverse Supervision Source: [Learning Semantic Segmentation with Diverse Supervision]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-25T20:55:10.976Z Authors: Linwei Ye, Zhi Liu, Yang Wang Published: 2018-02-01T22:26:24.000Z ## Abstract Models based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly improved the performance of semantic segmentation. However, learning these models requires a large amount of training images with pixel-level labels, which are very costly and time-consuming to collect. In this paper, we propose a method for learning CNN-based semantic segmentation models from images with several types of annotations that are available for various computer vision tasks, including image-level labels for classification, box-level labels for object detection and pixel-level labels for semantic segmentation. The proposed method is flexible and can be used together with any existing CNN-based semantic segmentation networks. Experimental evaluation on the challenging PASCAL VOC 2012 and SIFT-flow benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively make use of diverse training data to improve the performance of the learned models. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()