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Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation using Motion Cues

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017-04-24 v3

Abstract

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) trained on a large number of images with strong pixel-level annotations have become the new state of the art for the semantic segmentation task. While there have been recent attempts to learn FCNNs from image-level weak annotations, they need additional constraints, such as the size of an object, to obtain reasonable performance. To address this issue, we present motion-CNN (M-CNN), a novel FCNN framework which incorporates motion cues and is learned from video-level weak annotations. Our learning scheme to train the network uses motion segments as soft constraints, thereby handling noisy motion information. When trained on weakly-annotated videos, our method outperforms the state-of-the-art EM-Adapt approach on the PASCAL VOC 2012 image segmentation benchmark. We also demonstrate that the performance of M-CNN learned with 150 weak video annotations is on par with state-of-the-art weakly-supervised methods trained with thousands of images. Finally, M-CNN substantially outperforms recent approaches in a related task of video co-localization on the YouTube-Objects dataset.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.07188,
  title  = {Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation using Motion Cues},
  author = {Pavel Tokmakov and Karteek Alahari and Cordelia Schmid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07188},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Extended version of our ECCV 2016 paper

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