A common approach for moving objects segmentation in a scene is to perform a background subtraction. Several methods have been proposed in this domain. However, they lack the ability of handling various difficult scenarios such as illumination changes, background or camera motion, camouflage effect, shadow etc. To address these issues, we propose a robust and flexible encoder-decoder type neural network based approach. We adapt a pre-trained convolutional network, i.e. VGG-16 Net, under a triplet framework in the encoder part to embed an image in multiple scales into the feature space and use a transposed convolutional network in the decoder part to learn a mapping from feature space to image space. We train this network end-to-end by using only a few training samples. Our network takes an RGB image in three different scales and produces a foreground segmentation probability mask for the corresponding image. In order to evaluate our model, we entered the Change Detection 2014 Challenge (changedetection.net) and our method outperformed all the existing state-of-the-art methods by an average F-Measure of 0.9770. Our source code will be made publicly available at https://github.com/lim-anggun/FgSegNet.
Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Henan University of Science and Technology（河南科技大学）
Few researches have been proposed specifically for real-time semantic segmentation in rainy environments. However, the demand in this area is huge and it is challenging for lightweight networks. Therefore, this paper proposes a lightweight network which is specially designed for the foreground segmentation in rainy environments, named De-raining Semantic Segmentation Network (DRSNet). By analyzing the characteristics of raindrops, the MultiScaleSE Block is targetedly designed to encode the input image, it uses multi-scale dilated convolutions to increase the receptive field, and SE attention m…
This paper presents a method for automatic video object segmentation based on the fusion of motion stream, appearance stream, and instance-aware segmentation. The proposed scheme consists of a two-stream fusion network and an instance segmentation network. The two-stream fusion network again consists of motion and appearance stream networks, which extract long-term temporal and spatial information, respectively. Unlike the existing two-stream fusion methods, the proposed fusion network blends the two streams at the original resolution for obtaining accurate segmentation boundary. We develop a …
São Paulo State University（圣保罗州立大学）；Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras（巴西石油公司）
Scene change detection is an image processing problem related to partitioning pixels of a digital image into foreground and background regions. Mostly, visual knowledge-based computer intelligent systems, like traffic monitoring, video surveillance, and anomaly detection, need to use change detection techniques. Amongst the most prominent detection methods, there are the learning-based ones, which besides sharing similar training and testing protocols, differ from each other in terms of their architecture design strategies. Such architecture design directly impacts on the quality of the detect…
In this paper, a new deep learning architecture for stereo disparity estimation is proposed. The proposed atrous multiscale network (AMNet) adopts an efficient feature extractor with depthwise-separable convolutions and an extended cost volume that deploys novel stereo matching costs on the deep features. A stacked atrous multiscale network is proposed to aggregate rich multiscale contextual information from the cost volume which allows for estimating the disparity with high accuracy at multiple scales. AMNet can be further modified to be a foreground-background aware network, FBA-AMNet, which…
Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）；Deep North Inc.（Deep North公司）；Shanxi University（山西大学）
The performance of person re-identification (Re-ID) has been seriously effected by the large cross-view appearance variations caused by mutual occlusions and background clutters. Hence learning a feature representation that can adaptively emphasize the foreground persons becomes very critical to solve the person Re-ID problem. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective foreground attentive neural network (FANN) to learn a discriminative feature representation for person Re-ID, which can adaptively enhance the positive side of foreground and weaken the negative side of background. Specifi…
School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学人工智能与自动化学院）；Australian Institute for Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide（阿德莱德大学澳大利亚机器学习研究所）
We study the composition style in deep image matting, a notion that characterizes a data generation flow on how to exploit limited foregrounds and random backgrounds to form a training dataset. Prior art executes this flow in a completely random manner by simply going through the foreground pool or by optionally combining two foregrounds before foreground-background composition. In this work, we first show that naive foreground combination can be problematic and therefore derive an alternative formulation to reasonably combine foregrounds. Our second contribution is an observation that matting…
Image composition is a fundamental operation in image editing field. However, unharmonious foreground and background downgrade the quality of composite image. Image harmonization, which adjusts the foreground to improve the consistency, is an essential yet challenging task. Previous deep learning based methods mainly focus on directly learning the mapping from composite image to real image, while ignoring the crucial guidance role that background plays. In this work, with the assumption that the foreground needs to be translated to the same domain as background, we formulate image harmonizatio…
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）
Nuclei Segmentation from histology images is a fundamental task in digital pathology analysis. However, deep-learning-based nuclei segmentation methods often suffer from limited annotations. This paper proposes a realistic data augmentation method for nuclei segmentation, named InsMix, that follows a Copy-Paste-Smooth principle and performs morphology-constrained generative instance augmentation. Specifically, we propose morphology constraints that enable the augmented images to acquire luxuriant information about nuclei while maintaining their morphology characteristics (e.g., geometry and lo…
The Art of Camouflage: Few-Shot Learning for Animal Detection and Segmentation
University of Information Technology（信息科技大学）；Faculty of Computer Science（计算机学院）；Faculty of Information Technology（信息学院）；University of Science（科学大学）；John von Neumann Institute（约翰·冯·诺依曼研究所）；Vietnam National University（越南国家大学）；Monash University（莫纳什大学）；University of Dayton（代顿大学）
National Institute of Technology Warangal（瓦朗加尔国家理工学院）；Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology（银行技术发展与研究院）
Video Salient Document Detection (VSDD) is an essential task of practical computer vision, which aims to highlight visually salient document regions in video frames. Previous techniques for VSDD focus on learning features without considering the cooperation among and across the appearance and motion cues and thus fail to perform in practical scenarios. Moreover, most of the previous techniques demand high computational resources, which limits the usage of such systems in resource-constrained settings. To handle these issues, we propose VS-Net, which captures multi-scale spatiotemporal informat…
The University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；Adobe Inc.（Adobe公司）
Image harmonization aims to improve the quality of image compositing by matching the "appearance" (\eg, color tone, brightness and contrast) between foreground and background images. However, collecting large-scale annotated datasets for this task requires complex professional retouching. Instead, we propose a novel Self-Supervised Harmonization framework (SSH) that can be trained using just "free" natural images without being edited. We reformulate the image harmonization problem from a representation fusion perspective, which separately processes the foreground and background examples, to ad…
The gap between simulation and the real-world restrains many machine learning breakthroughs in computer vision and reinforcement learning from being applicable in the real world. In this work, we tackle this gap for the specific case of camera-based navigation, formulating it as following a visual cue in the foreground with arbitrary backgrounds. The visual cue in the foreground can often be simulated realistically, such as a line, gate or cone. The challenge then lies in coping with the unknown backgrounds and integrating both. As such, the goal is to train a visual agent on data captured in …
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）
Given large amount of real photos for training, Convolutional neural network shows excellent performance on object recognition tasks. However, the process of collecting data is so tedious and the background are also limited which makes it hard to establish a perfect database. In this paper, our generative model trained with synthetic images rendered from 3D models reduces the workload of data collection and limitation of conditions. Our structure is composed of two sub-networks: semantic foreground object reconstruction network based on Bayesian inference and classification network based on mu…
Northwestern University（西北大学）；Google Inc.（谷歌公司）；California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院）
Learning fine-grained image similarity is a challenging task. It needs to capture between-class and within-class image differences. This paper proposes a deep ranking model that employs deep learning techniques to learn similarity metric directly from images.It has higher learning capability than models based on hand-crafted features. A novel multiscale network structure has been developed to describe the images effectively. An efficient triplet sampling algorithm is proposed to learn the model with distributed asynchronized stochastic gradient. Extensive experiments show that the proposed alg…
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Remote sensing (RS) cross-modal text-image retrieval has attracted extensive attention for its advantages of flexible input and efficient query. However, traditional methods ignore the characteristics of multi-scale and redundant targets in RS image, leading to the degradation of retrieval accuracy. To cope with the problem of multi-scale scarcity and target redundancy in RS multimodal retrieval task, we come up with a novel asymmetric multimodal feature matching network (AMFMN). Our model adapts to multi-scale feature inputs, favors multi-source retrieval methods, and can dynamically filter r…
COMSATS University Islamabad（伊斯兰堡COMSATS大学）；Umeå University（于默奥大学）
U-Net is a widely adopted neural network in the domain of medical image segmentation. Despite its quick embracement by the medical imaging community, its performance suffers on complicated datasets. The problem can be ascribed to its simple feature extracting blocks: encoder/decoder, and the semantic gap between encoder and decoder. Variants of U-Net (such as R2U-Net) have been proposed to address the problem of simple feature extracting blocks by making the network deeper, but it does not deal with the semantic gap problem. On the other hand, another variant UNET++ deals with the semantic gap…
Attributes Shape the Embedding Space of Face Recognition Models
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy（波兰理工学院数学科学系）；Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy（比萨大学计算机科学系）；CENTAI Institute, Turin, Italy（CENTAI研究院）
