Spatial Structure Constraints for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Tao, Yao, Yazhou, Huang, Xingguo, Li, Zechao, Nie, Liqiang, Tang, Jinhui
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author Chen, Tao
Yao, Yazhou
Huang, Xingguo
Li, Zechao
Nie, Liqiang
Tang, Jinhui
author_facet Chen, Tao
Yao, Yazhou
Huang, Xingguo
Li, Zechao
Nie, Liqiang
Tang, Jinhui
contents The image-level label has prevailed in weakly supervised semantic segmentation tasks due to its easy availability. Since image-level labels can only indicate the existence or absence of specific categories of objects, visualization-based techniques have been widely adopted to provide object location clues. Considering class activation maps (CAMs) can only locate the most discriminative part of objects, recent approaches usually adopt an expansion strategy to enlarge the activation area for more integral object localization. However, without proper constraints, the expanded activation will easily intrude into the background region. In this paper, we propose spatial structure constraints (SSC) for weakly supervised semantic segmentation to alleviate the unwanted object over-activation of attention expansion. Specifically, we propose a CAM-driven reconstruction module to directly reconstruct the input image from deep CAM features, which constrains the diffusion of last-layer object attention by preserving the coarse spatial structure of the image content. Moreover, we propose an activation self-modulation module to refine CAMs with finer spatial structure details by enhancing regional consistency. Without external saliency models to provide background clues, our approach achieves 72.7\% and 47.0\% mIoU on the PASCAL VOC 2012 and COCO datasets, respectively, demonstrating the superiority of our proposed approach.
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spellingShingle Spatial Structure Constraints for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
Chen, Tao
Yao, Yazhou
Huang, Xingguo
Li, Zechao
Nie, Liqiang
Tang, Jinhui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The image-level label has prevailed in weakly supervised semantic segmentation tasks due to its easy availability. Since image-level labels can only indicate the existence or absence of specific categories of objects, visualization-based techniques have been widely adopted to provide object location clues. Considering class activation maps (CAMs) can only locate the most discriminative part of objects, recent approaches usually adopt an expansion strategy to enlarge the activation area for more integral object localization. However, without proper constraints, the expanded activation will easily intrude into the background region. In this paper, we propose spatial structure constraints (SSC) for weakly supervised semantic segmentation to alleviate the unwanted object over-activation of attention expansion. Specifically, we propose a CAM-driven reconstruction module to directly reconstruct the input image from deep CAM features, which constrains the diffusion of last-layer object attention by preserving the coarse spatial structure of the image content. Moreover, we propose an activation self-modulation module to refine CAMs with finer spatial structure details by enhancing regional consistency. Without external saliency models to provide background clues, our approach achieves 72.7\% and 47.0\% mIoU on the PASCAL VOC 2012 and COCO datasets, respectively, demonstrating the superiority of our proposed approach.
title Spatial Structure Constraints for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11122