A Dataset and Framework for Learning State-invariant Object Representations

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Main Authors: Sarkar, Rohan, Kak, Avinash
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author Sarkar, Rohan
Kak, Avinash
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Kak, Avinash
contents We add one more invariance - the state invariance - to the more commonly used other invariances for learning object representations for recognition and retrieval. By state invariance, we mean robust with respect to changes in the structural form of the objects, such as when an umbrella is folded, or when an item of clothing is tossed on the floor. In this work, we present a novel dataset, ObjectsWithStateChange, which captures state and pose variations in the object images recorded from arbitrary viewpoints. We believe that this dataset will facilitate research in fine-grained object recognition and retrieval of 3D objects that are capable of state changes. The goal of such research would be to train models capable of learning discriminative object embeddings that remain invariant to state changes while also staying invariant to transformations induced by changes in viewpoint, pose, illumination, etc. A major challenge in this regard is that instances of different objects (both within and across different categories) under various state changes may share similar visual characteristics and therefore may be close to one another in the learned embedding space, which would make it more difficult to discriminate between them. To address this, we propose a curriculum learning strategy that progressively selects object pairs with smaller inter-object distances in the learned embedding space during the training phase. This approach gradually samples harder-to-distinguish examples of visually similar objects, both within and across different categories. Our ablation related to the role played by curriculum learning indicates an improvement in object recognition accuracy of 7.9% and retrieval mAP of 9.2% over the state-of-the-art on our new dataset, as well as three other challenging multi-view datasets such as ModelNet40, ObjectPI, and FG3D.
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spellingShingle A Dataset and Framework for Learning State-invariant Object Representations
Sarkar, Rohan
Kak, Avinash
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
We add one more invariance - the state invariance - to the more commonly used other invariances for learning object representations for recognition and retrieval. By state invariance, we mean robust with respect to changes in the structural form of the objects, such as when an umbrella is folded, or when an item of clothing is tossed on the floor. In this work, we present a novel dataset, ObjectsWithStateChange, which captures state and pose variations in the object images recorded from arbitrary viewpoints. We believe that this dataset will facilitate research in fine-grained object recognition and retrieval of 3D objects that are capable of state changes. The goal of such research would be to train models capable of learning discriminative object embeddings that remain invariant to state changes while also staying invariant to transformations induced by changes in viewpoint, pose, illumination, etc. A major challenge in this regard is that instances of different objects (both within and across different categories) under various state changes may share similar visual characteristics and therefore may be close to one another in the learned embedding space, which would make it more difficult to discriminate between them. To address this, we propose a curriculum learning strategy that progressively selects object pairs with smaller inter-object distances in the learned embedding space during the training phase. This approach gradually samples harder-to-distinguish examples of visually similar objects, both within and across different categories. Our ablation related to the role played by curriculum learning indicates an improvement in object recognition accuracy of 7.9% and retrieval mAP of 9.2% over the state-of-the-art on our new dataset, as well as three other challenging multi-view datasets such as ModelNet40, ObjectPI, and FG3D.
title A Dataset and Framework for Learning State-invariant Object Representations
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06470