CoLo-CAM: Class Activation Mapping for Object Co-Localization in Weakly-Labeled Unconstrained Videos

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Autores principales: Belharbi, Soufiane, Murtaza, Shakeeb, Pedersoli, Marco, Ayed, Ismail Ben, McCaffrey, Luke, Granger, Eric
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Publicado: 2023
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author Belharbi, Soufiane
Murtaza, Shakeeb
Pedersoli, Marco
Ayed, Ismail Ben
McCaffrey, Luke
Granger, Eric
author_facet Belharbi, Soufiane
Murtaza, Shakeeb
Pedersoli, Marco
Ayed, Ismail Ben
McCaffrey, Luke
Granger, Eric
contents Leveraging spatiotemporal information in videos is critical for weakly supervised video object localization (WSVOL) tasks. However, state-of-the-art methods only rely on visual and motion cues, while discarding discriminative information, making them susceptible to inaccurate localizations. Recently, discriminative models have been explored for WSVOL tasks using a temporal class activation mapping (CAM) method. Although their results are promising, objects are assumed to have limited movement from frame to frame, leading to degradation in performance for relatively long-term dependencies. This paper proposes a novel CAM method for WSVOL that exploits spatiotemporal information in activation maps during training without constraining an object's position. Its training relies on Co-Localization, hence, the name CoLo-CAM. Given a sequence of frames, localization is jointly learned based on color cues extracted across the corresponding maps, by assuming that an object has similar color in consecutive frames. CAM activations are constrained to respond similarly over pixels with similar colors, achieving co-localization. This improves localization performance because the joint learning creates direct communication among pixels across all image locations and over all frames, allowing for transfer, aggregation, and correction of localizations. Co-localization is integrated into training by minimizing the color term of a conditional random field (CRF) loss over a sequence of frames/CAMs. Extensive experiments on two challenging YouTube-Objects datasets of unconstrained videos show the merits of our method, and its robustness to long-term dependencies, leading to new state-of-the-art performance for WSVOL task.
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spellingShingle CoLo-CAM: Class Activation Mapping for Object Co-Localization in Weakly-Labeled Unconstrained Videos
Belharbi, Soufiane
Murtaza, Shakeeb
Pedersoli, Marco
Ayed, Ismail Ben
McCaffrey, Luke
Granger, Eric
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Leveraging spatiotemporal information in videos is critical for weakly supervised video object localization (WSVOL) tasks. However, state-of-the-art methods only rely on visual and motion cues, while discarding discriminative information, making them susceptible to inaccurate localizations. Recently, discriminative models have been explored for WSVOL tasks using a temporal class activation mapping (CAM) method. Although their results are promising, objects are assumed to have limited movement from frame to frame, leading to degradation in performance for relatively long-term dependencies. This paper proposes a novel CAM method for WSVOL that exploits spatiotemporal information in activation maps during training without constraining an object's position. Its training relies on Co-Localization, hence, the name CoLo-CAM. Given a sequence of frames, localization is jointly learned based on color cues extracted across the corresponding maps, by assuming that an object has similar color in consecutive frames. CAM activations are constrained to respond similarly over pixels with similar colors, achieving co-localization. This improves localization performance because the joint learning creates direct communication among pixels across all image locations and over all frames, allowing for transfer, aggregation, and correction of localizations. Co-localization is integrated into training by minimizing the color term of a conditional random field (CRF) loss over a sequence of frames/CAMs. Extensive experiments on two challenging YouTube-Objects datasets of unconstrained videos show the merits of our method, and its robustness to long-term dependencies, leading to new state-of-the-art performance for WSVOL task.
title CoLo-CAM: Class Activation Mapping for Object Co-Localization in Weakly-Labeled Unconstrained Videos
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09044