arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Contrastive Mask Fidelity: Reference-Free Auditing of Ground-Truth Masks in Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2608. 09101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation models are trained and evaluated against human-drawn masks, yet remote-sensing annotations are often coarse, incomplete, or misaligned; high overlap scores may then reflect agreement with imperfect labels rather than faithfulness to the image, creating an evaluation paradox.

By Shuaishuai Cao, Shuwei Peng, Meng Tang, Min Huang, Youjin Wang, Jie Chen, Jing Ouyang, Zhiwei Zhai
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Semi-Supervised Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Image Classification

The paper introduces Self‑Evolutionary CLIP (SE‑CLIP), a semi‑supervised framework that adapts vision‑language models like CLIP to satellite imagery. SE‑CLIP uses a two‑phase pipeline: an initial warm‑up on a small set of annotated seeds followed by a recursive discovery phase that iteratively selects high‑confidence samples from unlabeled data. A class‑balanced selection strategy is applied to keep the evolving support set balanced, and experiments on the UCM and NWPU benchmarks show that SE‑CLIP outperforms existing semi‑supervised methods.

By Mohamed L. Mekhalfi, Mohamad M. Al Rahhal, Yakoub Bazi, Salah E. Khenfer, Mingdeng Shi, Hua Zou, Mansour Zuair