A Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Unsupervised Image Segmentation

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Main Authors: Guermazi, Boujemaa, Ksantini, Riadh, Khan, Naimul
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author Guermazi, Boujemaa
Ksantini, Riadh
Khan, Naimul
author_facet Guermazi, Boujemaa
Ksantini, Riadh
Khan, Naimul
contents Image segmentation is the foundation of several computer vision tasks, where pixel-wise knowledge is a prerequisite for achieving the desired target. Deep learning has shown promising performance in supervised image segmentation. However, supervised segmentation algorithms require a massive amount of data annotated at a pixel level, thus limiting their applicability and scalability. Therefore, there is a need to invest in unsupervised learning for segmentation. This work presents an improved version of an unsupervised Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based algorithm that uses a constant weight factor to balance between the segmentation criteria of feature similarity and spatial continuity, and it requires continuous manual adjustment of parameters depending on the degree of detail in the image and the dataset. In contrast, we propose a novel dynamic weighting scheme that leads to a flexible update of the parameters and an automatic tuning of the balancing weight between the two criteria above to bring out the details in the images in a genuinely unsupervised manner. We present quantitative and qualitative results on four datasets, which show that the proposed scheme outperforms the current unsupervised segmentation approaches without requiring manual adjustment.
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spellingShingle A Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Unsupervised Image Segmentation
Guermazi, Boujemaa
Ksantini, Riadh
Khan, Naimul
Image and Video Processing
Image segmentation is the foundation of several computer vision tasks, where pixel-wise knowledge is a prerequisite for achieving the desired target. Deep learning has shown promising performance in supervised image segmentation. However, supervised segmentation algorithms require a massive amount of data annotated at a pixel level, thus limiting their applicability and scalability. Therefore, there is a need to invest in unsupervised learning for segmentation. This work presents an improved version of an unsupervised Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based algorithm that uses a constant weight factor to balance between the segmentation criteria of feature similarity and spatial continuity, and it requires continuous manual adjustment of parameters depending on the degree of detail in the image and the dataset. In contrast, we propose a novel dynamic weighting scheme that leads to a flexible update of the parameters and an automatic tuning of the balancing weight between the two criteria above to bring out the details in the images in a genuinely unsupervised manner. We present quantitative and qualitative results on four datasets, which show that the proposed scheme outperforms the current unsupervised segmentation approaches without requiring manual adjustment.
title A Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Unsupervised Image Segmentation
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11266