MetaSeg: Content-Aware Meta-Net for Omni-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

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Autori principali: Jiang, Shenwang, Li, Jianan, Wang, Ying, Wu, Wenxuan, Zhang, Jizhou, Huang, Bo, Xu, Tingfa
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author Jiang, Shenwang
Li, Jianan
Wang, Ying
Wu, Wenxuan
Zhang, Jizhou
Huang, Bo
Xu, Tingfa
author_facet Jiang, Shenwang
Li, Jianan
Wang, Ying
Wu, Wenxuan
Zhang, Jizhou
Huang, Bo
Xu, Tingfa
contents Noisy labels, inevitably existing in pseudo segmentation labels generated from weak object-level annotations, severely hampers model optimization for semantic segmentation. Previous works often rely on massive hand-crafted losses and carefully-tuned hyper-parameters to resist noise, suffering poor generalization capability and high model complexity. Inspired by recent advances in meta learning, we argue that rather than struggling to tolerate noise hidden behind clean labels passively, a more feasible solution would be to find out the noisy regions actively, so as to simply ignore them during model optimization. With this in mind, this work presents a novel meta learning based semantic segmentation method, MetaSeg, that comprises a primary content-aware meta-net (CAM-Net) to sever as a noise indicator for an arbitrary segmentation model counterpart. Specifically, CAM-Net learns to generate pixel-wise weights to suppress noisy regions with incorrect pseudo labels while highlighting clean ones by exploiting hybrid strengthened features from image content, providing straightforward and reliable guidance for optimizing the segmentation model. Moreover, to break the barrier of time-consuming training when applying meta learning to common large segmentation models, we further present a new decoupled training strategy that optimizes different model layers in a divide-and-conquer manner. Extensive experiments on object, medical, remote sensing and human segmentation shows that our method achieves superior performance, approaching that of fully supervised settings, which paves a new promising way for omni-supervised semantic segmentation.
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spellingShingle MetaSeg: Content-Aware Meta-Net for Omni-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
Jiang, Shenwang
Li, Jianan
Wang, Ying
Wu, Wenxuan
Zhang, Jizhou
Huang, Bo
Xu, Tingfa
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Noisy labels, inevitably existing in pseudo segmentation labels generated from weak object-level annotations, severely hampers model optimization for semantic segmentation. Previous works often rely on massive hand-crafted losses and carefully-tuned hyper-parameters to resist noise, suffering poor generalization capability and high model complexity. Inspired by recent advances in meta learning, we argue that rather than struggling to tolerate noise hidden behind clean labels passively, a more feasible solution would be to find out the noisy regions actively, so as to simply ignore them during model optimization. With this in mind, this work presents a novel meta learning based semantic segmentation method, MetaSeg, that comprises a primary content-aware meta-net (CAM-Net) to sever as a noise indicator for an arbitrary segmentation model counterpart. Specifically, CAM-Net learns to generate pixel-wise weights to suppress noisy regions with incorrect pseudo labels while highlighting clean ones by exploiting hybrid strengthened features from image content, providing straightforward and reliable guidance for optimizing the segmentation model. Moreover, to break the barrier of time-consuming training when applying meta learning to common large segmentation models, we further present a new decoupled training strategy that optimizes different model layers in a divide-and-conquer manner. Extensive experiments on object, medical, remote sensing and human segmentation shows that our method achieves superior performance, approaching that of fully supervised settings, which paves a new promising way for omni-supervised semantic segmentation.
title MetaSeg: Content-Aware Meta-Net for Omni-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11738