arXiv Analytics

Sign in

arXiv:1703.08000 [cs.CV]AbstractReferencesReviewsResources

Weakly Supervised Object Localization Using Things and Stuff Transfer

Miaojing Shi, Holger Caesar, Vittorio Ferrari

Published 2017-03-23Version 1

We propose to help weakly supervised object localization for classes where location annotations are not available, by transferring things and stuff knowledge from a source set with available annotations. The source and target classes might share similar appearance (e.g. bear fur is similar to cat fur) or appear against similar background (e.g. horse and sheep appear against grass). To exploit this, we acquire three types of knowledge from the source set: a segmentation model trained on both thing and stuff classes; similarity relations between target and source classes; and co-occurrence relations between thing and stuff classes in the source. The segmentation model is used to generate thing and stuff segmentation maps on a target image, while the class similarity and co-occurrence knowledge help refining them. We then incorporate these maps as new cues into a multiple instance learning framework (MIL), propagating the transferred knowledge from the pixel level to the object proposal level. In extensive experiments, we conduct our transfer from the PASCAL Context dataset (source) to the ILSVRC, COCO and PASCAL VOC 2007 datasets (targets). We evaluate our transfer across widely different thing classes, including some that are not similar in appearance, but appear against similar background. The results demonstrate significant improvement over standard MIL, and we outperform the state-of-the-art in the transfer setting.

Related articles: Most relevant | Search more
arXiv:2103.04523 [cs.CV] (Published 2021-03-08)
Unveiling the Potential of Structure-Preserving for Weakly Supervised Object Localization
Xingjia Pan et al.
arXiv:1710.04647 [cs.CV] (Published 2017-10-12)
Progressive Representation Adaptation for Weakly Supervised Object Localization
arXiv:2309.12943 [cs.CV] (Published 2023-09-22)
Background Activation Suppression for Weakly Supervised Object Localization and Semantic Segmentation