English

The Elephant in the Room

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018-08-13 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We showcase a family of common failures of state-of-the art object detectors. These are obtained by replacing image sub-regions by another sub-image that contains a trained object. We call this "object transplanting". Modifying an image in this manner is shown to have a non-local impact on object detection. Slight changes in object position can affect its identity according to an object detector as well as that of other objects in the image. We provide some analysis and suggest possible reasons for the reported phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.1808.03305,
  title  = {The Elephant in the Room},
  author = {Amir Rosenfeld and Richard Zemel and John K. Tsotsos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03305},
  year   = {2018}
}
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