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A three-stage framework integrating CLIP, DINOv2, and SAM with decoupled cross-modal distillation and semantic-guided refinement outperforms state-of-the-art weakly supervised semantic segmentation baselines in remote sensing imagery. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Develop a weakly supervised semantic segmentation framework for remote sensing imagery that uses only image-level labels while overcoming incomplete class activation maps and land-cover boundary confusion.

August 23, 2026Remote SensingOpen Access

Weakly Supervised Remote Sensing Segmentation via Decoupled Cross-Modal Distillation and Semantic-Guided Refinement

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Develop a weakly supervised semantic segmentation framework for remote sensing imagery that uses only image-level labels while overcoming incomplete class activation maps and land-cover boundary confusion.
Designed a three-stage pipeline integrating CLIP, DINOv2, and the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with a lightweight CLIP adapter and sigmoid-based decoupled multi-label distillation.
Implemented DINOv2 feature clustering and spatial-semantic constraints to prompt SAM and generate refined pseudo-labels from merged activation regions.
Trained a standalone compact segmentation network on refined pseudo-labels, eliminating foundation model dependencies during inference.
Achieved mean intersection over union (mIoU) scores of 53.16% on Potsdam, 52.66% on LoveDA, and 62.98% on DeepGlobe benchmark datasets.
Outperformed state-of-the-art weakly supervised semantic segmentation baselines by 6.55, 1.16, and 1.27 percentage points on the Potsdam, LoveDA, and DeepGlobe datasets, respectively.

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Algorithm evaluation shows improved weakly supervised segmentation in remote sensing imagery, suggesting foundation model distillation effectively reduces annotation costs.

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Li et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8aadd57677a34114446413 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18162843

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Algorithm evaluation shows improved weakly supervised segmentation in remote sensing imagery, suggesting foundation model distillation effectively reduces annotation costs.

Weakly Supervised Remote Sensing Segmentation via Decoupled Cross-Modal Distillation and Semantic-Guided Refinement

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