Awesome-Semi-Supervised-Semantic-Segmentation

July 7, 2026 · View on GitHub

This is a summary of recent semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods. Please feel free to contact me (sbysbysby123@gmail.com) if I miss some papers. Issues and PRs are also welcomed!

NOTE: The methods of semi-supervised medical segmentation methods are not included, you can find them here. As for general semi-supervised learning, you can refer to this repo.

2026

Title	Abbreviation	Published	Dataset	CODE	PDF
Clean-Positive Contrastive Learning for Foundation-Model Semi-Supervised Segmentation	PixCon	Arxiv 2026	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, ADE20k	Code	Paper

2025

Title	Abbreviation	Published	Dataset	CODE	PDF
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Derivative Label Propagation	DerProp	Arxiv 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Leveraging Out-of-Distribution Unlabeled Images: Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with an Open-Vocabulary Model	SemiOVS	Arxiv 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, PASCAL Context	Code	Paper
Rethinking Semi-supervised Segmentation Beyond Accuracy: Reliability and Robustness	RSS	Arxiv 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Adaptive Spatial Augmentation for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	ASAug	Arxiv 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	-	Paper
IGL-DT: Iterative Global-Local Feature Learning with Dual-Teacher Semantic Segmentation Framework under Limited Annotation Scheme	IGL-DT	Arxiv 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
BoundMatch: Boundary detection applied to semi-supervised segmentation for urban-driving scenes	BoundMatch	Arxiv 2025	Cityscapes, BDD100K, SYNTHIA, PASCAL VOC 2012, ADE20K	-	Paper
Exploring Token-Level Augmentation in Vision Transformer for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	TokenMix	Arxiv 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	-	Paper
DEARLi: Decoupled Enhancement of Recognition and Localization for Semi-Supervised Panoptic Segmentation	DEARLi	ICCV Findings 2025	ADE20K, COCO Object, COCO Panoptic	Code	Paper
When Confidence Fails: Revisiting Pseudo-Label Selection in Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	CSL	ICCV 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	Code	Paper
ConformalSAM: Unlocking the Potential of Foundational Segmentation Models in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Conformal Prediction	ConformalSAM	ICCV 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, ADE20K	-	Paper
Towards Unbiased Learning in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	DiffMatch	ICLR 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	Code	Paper
Knowledge Consultation for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	SegKC	Arxiv 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	paper
Zero-Shot Pseudo Labels Generation Using SAM and CLIP for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	-	ICIP 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, MS COCO	-	Paper
Confidence-Weighted Boundary-Aware Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	CW-BASS	IJCNN 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Multi-Constraint Consistency Learning	MCCL	TMM 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Uncertainty and Energy based Loss Guided Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	DUEB	WACV 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Uncertainty-Participation Context Consistency Learning for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	UCCL	ICASSP 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Hybrid Architectures Ensemble Learning for pseudo-label refinement in semi-supervised segmentation	HAEL	INFFUS 2025	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper

2024

Title	Abbreviation	Published	Dataset	CODE	PDF
Masked Image Modeling Boosting Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	S4MIM	Arxiv 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Exploiting Minority Pseudo-Labels for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving	-	Arxiv 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Revisiting and Maximizing Temporal Knowledge in Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	PrevMatch	Arxiv 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO, ADE20k	Code	Paper
IPixMatch: Boost Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Inter-Pixel Relation	IPixMatch	Arxiv 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
PRCL: Probabilistic Representation Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	PRCL	Arxiv 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
UniMatch V2: Pushing the Limit of Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	UniMatch V2	Arxiv 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO, ADE20k	Code	Paper
CorrMatch: Label Propagation via Correlation Matching for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	CorrMatch	CVPR 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Training Vision Transformers for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	S4Former	CVPR 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	Code	Paper
Towards the Uncharted: Density-Descending Feature Perturbation for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	DDFP	CVPR 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
AllSpark: Reborn Labeled Features from Unlabeled in Transformer for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	AllSpark	CVPR 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	Code	Paper
RankMatch: Exploring the Better Consistency Regularization for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	RankMatch	CVPR 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Beyond Pixels: Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with a Multi-scale Patch-based Multi-Label Classifier	MPMC	ECCV 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
SemiVL: Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Vision-Language Guidance	SemiVL	ECCV 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO, ADE20k	Code	Paper
Weighting Pseudo-Labels via High-Activation Feature Index Similarity and Object Detection for Semi-Supervised Segmentation	-	ECCV 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Multi-Level Label Correction by Distilling Proximate Patterns for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	MLLC	TMM 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Class Probability Space Regularization for semi-supervised semantic segmentation	CPSR	CVIU 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Revisiting Network Perturbation for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	MLPMatch	PRCV 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Interactive Network Perturbation between Teacher and Students for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	GPS	WACV 2024	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper

2023

Title	Abbreviation	Published	Dataset	CODE	PDF
CorrMatch: Label Propagation via Correlation Matching for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	CorrMatch	Arxiv 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Marginal Contextual Information	S4MC	Arxiv 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation via Boosting Uncertainty on Unlabeled Data		Arxiv 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes		Paper
Triple-View Knowledge Distillation for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	Tri-KD	Arxiv 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Space Engage: Collaborative Space Supervision for Contrastive-based Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	CSS	Arxiv 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
CAFS: Class Adaptive Framework for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	CAFS	Arxiv 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Revisiting Image Reconstruction for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	FOrec	Arxiv 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation Meets Masked Modeling:Fine-grained Locality Learning Matters in Consistency Regularization	MaskMatch	Arxiv 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Decoupling with Entropy-based Equalization for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	DeS4	IJCAI 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Switching Temporary Teachers for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation		NeurIPS 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
DAW: Exploring the Better Weighting Function for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	DAW	NeurIPS 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Improving Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Dual-Level Siamese Structure Network	DSSN	ACM MM 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Enhanced Soft Label for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	ESL	ICCV 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Locating Noise is Halfway Denoising for Semi-Supervised Segmentation	UPL	ICCV 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Diverse Cotraining Makes Strong Semi-Supervised Segmentor		ICCV 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Logic-induced Diagnostic Reasoning for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	LogicDiag	ICCV 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	-	Paper
CFCG: Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Cross-Fusion and Contour Guidance Supervision	CFCG	ICCV 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation With Region Relevance	RRN	ICME 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
NP-SemiSeg: When Neural Processes meet Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	NP-SemiSeg	ICML 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Instance-Specific and Model-Adaptive Supervision for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	iMAS	CVPR 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Hunting Sparsity: Density-Guided Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	DGCL	CVPR 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Fuzzy Positive Learning for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	FPL	CVPR 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Revisiting Weak-to-Strong Consistency in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	UniMatch	CVPR 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	Code	Paper
Augmentation Matters: A Simple-yet-Effective Approach to Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	AugSeg	CVPR 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Conflict-Based Cross-View Consistency for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	CCVC	CVPR 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
SemiCVT: Semi-Supervised Convolutional Vision Transformer for Semantic Segmentation	SemiCVT	CVPR 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Conservative-Progressive Collaborative Learning for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	CPCL	TIP 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Querying Labeled for Unlabeled: Cross-Image Semantic Consistency Guided Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	CISC-R	TPAMI 2023	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	Code	Paper

2022

Title	Abbreviation	Published	Dataset	CODE	PDF
Transformer-CNN Cohort: Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation by the Best of Both Students	TCC	Arxiv 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Multi-View Correlation Consistency for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	MVCC	Arxiv 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Pseudo-Label Noise Suppression Techniques for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	-	BMVC 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, Mapillary	Code	Paper
Semantic Segmentation with Active Semi-Supervised Representation Learning	-	BMVC 2022	Cityscapes, CamVid	-	Paper
CARD: Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation via Class-agnostic Relation based Denoising	CARD	IJCAI 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Prototype-based Consistency Regularization	PCR	NeurIPS 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Learning from Future: A Novel Self-Training Framework for Semantic Segmentation	FST	NeurIPS 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012	Code	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Gentle Teaching Assistant	GTA	NeurIPS 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Semi-supervised 3D shape segmentation with multilevel consistency and part substitution	-	CVM 2022	PartNet, ShapeNetPart, ScanNet	Code	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Cross Teacher Training	CTT	Neurocomputing 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Region-level Contrastive and Consistency Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	RC2L	IJCAI 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
One Weird Trick to Improve Your Semi-Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation Model	-	IJCAI 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012	-	Paper
Multi-Granularity Distillation Scheme Towards Lightweight Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	MGD	ECCV 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Learning Self-Supervised Low-Rank Network for Single-Stage Weakly and Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	SLRNet	IJCV 2022	Pascal VOC 2012, L2ID, MS COCO	Code	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation Using Unreliable Pseudo-Labels	U2PL	CVPR 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012	Code	Paper
Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Error Localization Network	ELN	CVPR 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
UCC: Uncertainty guided Cross-head Co-training for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	UCC	CVPR 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Perturbed and Strict Mean Teachers for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	PS-MT	CVPR 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Unbiased Subclass Regularization for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	USRN	CVPR 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
ST++: Make Self-training Work Better for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	ST/ST++	CVPR 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Semi-Supervised Video Semantic Segmentation with Inter-Frame Feature Reconstruction	IRF	CVPR 2022	Cityscapes, CamVid	Code	Paper
Noisy Boundaries: Lemon or Lemonade for Semi-supervised Instance Segmentation?	-	CVPR 2022	Cityscapes, MS COCO,BDD100K	Code	Paper
TWIST: Two-Way Inter-label Self-Training for Semi-supervised 3D Instance Segmentation	TWIST	CVPR 2022	ScanNet v2, S3DIS	-	Paper
Adversarial Dual-Student with Differentiable Spatial Warping for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	ADS	TCSVT 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Semi-supervision semantic segmentation with uncertainty-guided self cross supervision	USCS	Arxiv 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012	-	Paper
GuidedMix-Net: Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation by Using Labeled Images as Reference	GuidedMix-Net	AAAI 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Active Learning for Improved Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in Satellite Images	-	WACV 2022	UCM, deepglobe	Code	Paper
The GIST and RIST of Iterative Self-Training for Semi-Supervised Segmentation	GIST RIST	CRV 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Learning Pseudo Labels for Semi-and-Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation	-	PR 2022	PASCAL VOC 2012, PASCAL-Context	Code	Paper

2021

Title	Abbreviation	Published	Dataset	CODE	PDF
n-CPS: Generalising Cross Pseudo Supervision to n Networks for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	n-CPS	Arxiv 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Revisiting consistency for semi-supervised semantic segmentation	-	Arxiv 2021	Cityscapes	-	Paper
Robust Mutual Learning for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	-	Arxiv 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Mask-based Data Augmentation for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	ComplexMix	Arxiv 2021	Cityscapes	-	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Adaptive Equalization Learning	AEL	NeurIPS 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Colour augmentation for improved semi-supervised semantic segmentation	-	Arxiv 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
C3-SemiSeg: Contrastive Semi-supervised Segmentation via Cross-set Learning and Dynamic Class-balancing	C3-SemiSeg	ICCV 2021	Cityscapes, BDD100K	Code	Paper
A Simple Baseline for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Strong Data Augmentation	-	ICCV 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Pixel-Level Contrastive Learning from a Class-wise Memory Bank	-	ICCV 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Pixel Contrastive-Consistent Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	P2Seg	ICCV 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, MS COCO	-	Paper
Re-distributing Biased Pseudo Labels for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation: A Baseline Investigation	DARS	ICCV 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Warp-Refine Propagation: Semi-Supervised Auto-labeling via Cycle-consistency	-	ICCV 2021	CityScapes, NYU, KITTI, ApolloScape	-	Paper
Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Directional Context-aware Consistency	-	CVPR 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Cross Pseudo Supervision	CPS	CVPR 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper
Anti-Adversarially Manipulated Attributions for Weakly and Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	-	CVPR 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012	Code	Paper
Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation based on Dual-level Domain Mixing for Semantic Segmentation	-	CVPR 2021	Cityscapes, GTA5, SYNTHIA	-	Paper
Learning from Pixel-Level Label Noise: A New Perspective for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	-	TIP 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, PASCAL-Context, Cityscapes	-	Paper
A Three-Stage Self-Training Framework for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	-	TIP 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
PseudoSeg: Designing Pseudo Labels for Semantic Segmentation	PseudoSeg	ICLR 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, MS COCO	Code	Paper
ClassMix: Segmentation-Based Data Augmentation for Semi-Supervised Learning	ClassMix	WACV 2021	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	Code	Paper

2020 ( Under construction )

Title	Abbreviation	Published	Dataset	CODE	PDF
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Cross-Consistency Training	CCT	CVPR 2020	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, CamVid	Code	Paper
Semi-Supervised Semantic Image Segmentation with Self-correcting Networks	-	CVPR 2020	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
A Three-Stage Self-Training Framework for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation	-	CVPR 2020	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes	-	Paper
Guided Collaborative Training for Pixel-wise Semi-Supervised Learning	GCT	ECCV 2020	Pascal VOC 2012	Code	Paper
Semi-supervised semantic segmentation needs strong, varied perturbations	CutMix	BMVC2020	PASCAL VOC 2012, Cityscapes, ISIC 2017	Code	Paper

Citation

If you find our repo useful for your research, please consider citing our paper:

@article{sun2023corrmatch,
  title={CorrMatch: Label Propagation via Correlation Matching for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation},
  author={Sun, Boyuan and Yang, Yuqi and Zhang, Le and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Hou, Qibin},
  journal={IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year={2024}
}