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Growing Interpretable Part Graphs on ConvNets via Multi-Shot Learning

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017-03-14 v2

Abstract

This paper proposes a learning strategy that extracts object-part concepts from a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN), in an attempt to 1) explore explicit semantics hidden in CNN units and 2) gradually grow a semantically interpretable graphical model on the pre-trained CNN for hierarchical object understanding. Given part annotations on very few (e.g., 3-12) objects, our method mines certain latent patterns from the pre-trained CNN and associates them with different semantic parts. We use a four-layer And-Or graph to organize the mined latent patterns, so as to clarify their internal semantic hierarchy. Our method is guided by a small number of part annotations, and it achieves superior performance (about 13%-107% improvement) in part center prediction on the PASCAL VOC and ImageNet datasets.

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@article{arxiv.1611.04246,
  title  = {Growing Interpretable Part Graphs on ConvNets via Multi-Shot Learning},
  author = {Quanshi Zhang and Ruiming Cao and Ying Nian Wu and Song-Chun Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.04246},
  year   = {2017}
}

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in the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17)

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