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Therefore, it is necessary for such autonomous mobility systems to estimate the areas that are mechanically traversable and recommended by traffic rules and to navigate based on this estimation. In this paper, we propose a method for weakly-supervised recommended traversable area segmentation in environments with no edges using automatically labeled images based on paths selected by humans. This approach is based on the idea that a human-selected driving path more accurately reflects both mechanical traversability and human understanding of traffic rules and visual information. In addition, we propose a data augmentation method and a loss weighting method for detecting the appropriate recommended traversable area from a single human-selected path. 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