Temporal relational modeling in video is essential for human action understanding, such as action recognition and action segmentation. Although Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs) have shown promising advantages in relation reasoning on many tasks, it is still a challenge to apply graph convolution networks on long video sequences effectively. The main reason is that large number of nodes (i.e., video frames) makes GCNs hard to capture and model temporal relations in videos. To tackle this problem, in this paper, we introduce an effective GCN module, Dilated Temporal Graph Reasoning Module (DTGRM), designed to model temporal relations and dependencies between video frames at various time spans. In particular, we capture and model temporal relations via constructing multi-level dilated temporal graphs where the nodes represent frames from different moments in video. Moreover, to enhance temporal reasoning ability of the proposed model, an auxiliary self-supervised task is proposed to encourage the dilated temporal graph reasoning module to find and correct wrong temporal relations in videos. Our DTGRM model outperforms state-of-the-art action segmentation models on three challenging datasets: 50Salads, Georgia Tech Egocentric Activities (GTEA), and the Breakfast dataset. The code is available at https://github.com/redwang/DTGRM.
Relational Anatomical Supervision for Accurate 3D Multi-Chamber Cardiac Mesh Reconstruction
Bioengineering Department Imperial College London, London W12 7SL, United Kingdom；Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom；Cardiovascular Research Centre, Royal Brompton Hospital, London SW3 6NP, United Kingdom；School of Biomedical Engineering \& Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom；ROAS Thrust, Hong Kong University of Science；Department of Electronic；Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science
SRPR-Net: Semantic and Relational Prompt Refinement for Automated SAM-based Instance Segmentation
Ruijin-XJTLU Intelligent Medicine Institute, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine（瑞金-西交利物浦智能医学研究所，瑞金医院，上海交通大学医学院）；School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学生物医学工程学院）
This paper presents a novel framework to integrate both semantic and instance contexts for panoptic segmentation. In existing works, it is common to use a shared backbone to extract features for both things (countable classes such as vehicles) and stuff (uncountable classes such as roads). This, however, fails to capture the rich relations among them, which can be utilized to enhance visual understanding and segmentation performance. To address this shortcoming, we propose a novel Panoptic, Instance, and Semantic Relations (PISR) module to exploit such contexts. First, we generate panoptic enc…
Recent machine learning strategies for segmentation tasks have shown great ability when trained on large pixel-wise annotated image datasets. It remains a major challenge however to aggregate such datasets, as the time and monetary cost associated with collecting extensive annotations is extremely high. This is particularly the case for generating precise pixel-wise annotations in video and volumetric image data. To this end, this work presents a novel framework to produce pixel-wise segmentations using minimal supervision. Our method relies on 2D point supervision, whereby a single 2D locatio…
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Horizon Robotics（地平线机器人）；Wuhan University（武汉大学）
Current Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods for semantic segmentation often guide the student to mimic the teacher's structured information generated from individual data samples. However, they ignore the global semantic relations among pixels across various images that are valuable for KD. This paper proposes a novel Cross-Image Relational KD (CIRKD), which focuses on transferring structured pixel-to-pixel and pixel-to-region relations among the whole images. The motivation is that a good teacher network could construct a well-structured feature space in terms of global pixel dependencies. CI…
DS$^2$Net: Detail-Semantic Deep Supervision Network for Medical Image Segmentation
Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China（教育部多媒体可信感知与高效计算重点实验室）；Xiamen University（厦门大学）；Computer Engineering College（计算机工程学院）
The rapid development of deep learning has made a great progress in image segmentation, one of the fundamental tasks of computer vision. However, the current segmentation algorithms mostly rely on the availability of pixel-level annotations, which are often expensive, tedious, and laborious. To alleviate this burden, the past years have witnessed an increasing attention in building label-efficient, deep-learning-based image segmentation algorithms. This paper offers a comprehensive review on label-efficient image segmentation methods. To this end, we first develop a taxonomy to organize these …
University of Oxford（牛津大学）；Centre for Medical Image Computing（医学图像计算中心）；InstaDeep（InstaDeep公司）
Despite the success of deep learning methods for semantic segmentation, few-shot semantic segmentation remains a challenging task due to the limited training data and the generalisation requirement for unseen classes. While recent progress has been particularly encouraging, we discover that existing methods tend to have poor performance in terms of meanIoU when query images contain other semantic classes besides the target class. To address this issue, we propose a novel self-supervised task that generates random pseudo-classes in the background of the query images, providing extra training da…
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University（南方医科大学第三附属医院）
Medical image segmentation based on deep learning is often faced with the problems of insufficient datasets and long time-consuming labeling. In this paper, we introduce the self-supervised method MAE(Masked Autoencoders) into knee joint images to provide a good initial weight for the segmentation model and improve the adaptability of the model to small datasets. Secondly, we propose a weakly supervised paradigm for meniscus segmentation based on the combination of point and line to reduce the time of labeling. Based on the weak label ,we design a region growing algorithm to generate pseudo-la…
Chinese Academy of Military Science（中国军事科学院）；National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学）
As a powerful way of realizing semi-supervised segmentation, the cross supervision method learns cross consistency based on independent ensemble models using abundant unlabeled images. However, the wrong pseudo labeling information generated by cross supervision would confuse the training process and negatively affect the effectiveness of the segmentation model. Besides, the training process of ensemble models in such methods also multiplies the cost of computation resources and decreases the training efficiency. To solve these problems, we propose a novel cross supervision method, namely unce…
Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学医学院）
In this paper, we present a novel unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) method, named Domain Adaptive Relational Reasoning (DARR), to generalize 3D multi-organ segmentation models to medical data collected from different scanners and/or protocols (domains). Our method is inspired by the fact that the spatial relationship between internal structures in medical images is relatively fixed, e.g., a spleen is always located at the tail of a pancreas, which serves as a latent variable to transfer the knowledge shared across multiple domains. We formulate the spatial relationship by solving a jigsaw p…
In the past ten years, with the help of deep learning, especially the rapid development of deep neural networks, medical image analysis has made remarkable progress. However, how to effectively use the relational information between various tissues or organs in medical images is still a very challenging problem, and it has not been fully studied. In this thesis, we propose two novel solutions to this problem based on deep relational learning. First, we propose a context-aware fully convolutional network that effectively models implicit relation information between features to perform medical i…
In this paper, we propose a new image instance segmentation method that segments individual glands (instances) in colon histology images. This is a task called instance segmentation that has recently become increasingly important. The problem is challenging since not only do the glands need to be segmented from the complex background, they are also required to be individually identified. Here we leverage the idea of image-to-image prediction in recent deep learning by building a framework that automatically exploits and fuses complex multichannel information, regional and boundary patterns, wi…
University of Bonn（波恩大学）；Microsoft（微软）；Birzeit University（比尔宰特大学）；Toyota Motor Europe（丰田汽车欧洲公司）
Action segmentation is the task of predicting an action label for each frame of an untrimmed video. As obtaining annotations to train an approach for action segmentation in a fully supervised way is expensive, various approaches have been proposed to train action segmentation models using different forms of weak supervision, e.g., action transcripts, action sets, or more recently timestamps. Timestamp supervision is a promising type of weak supervision as obtaining one timestamp per action is less expensive than annotating all frames, but it provides more information than other forms of weak s…
Identifying "free-space," or safely driveable regions in the scene ahead, is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation. While this task can be addressed using semantic segmentation, the manual labor involved in creating pixelwise annotations to train the segmentation model is very costly. Although weakly supervised segmentation addresses this issue, most methods are not designed for free-space. In this paper, we observe that homogeneous texture and location are two key characteristics of free-space, and develop a novel, practical framework for free-space segmentation with minimal human supe…
Open-Ended CT Volume Segmentation with Weak Supervision from Language
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校电气工程与计算机科学系）；Voio；Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UC San Francisco（加州大学旧金山分校放射学与生物医学成像系）；Computational Precision Health, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco（加州大学伯克利分校和加州大学旧金山分校计算精准健康中心）
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology（卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院）；Carl Zeiss AG（卡尔蔡司公司）；University of Applied Sciences Berlin（柏林应用科学大学）
Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose a semi-weakly supervised segmentation algorithm to overcome this barrier. Our approach is based on a new formulation of deep supervision and student-teacher model and allows for easy integration of different supervision signals. In contrast to previous work, we show that care has to be taken how deep supervision is integrated in lower layers and we present …
University of Massachusetts, Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校）
A significant bottleneck in training deep networks for part segmentation is the cost of obtaining detailed annotations. We propose a framework to exploit coarse labels such as figure-ground masks and keypoint locations that are readily available for some categories to improve part segmentation models. A key challenge is that these annotations were collected for different tasks and with different labeling styles and cannot be readily mapped to the part labels. To this end, we propose to jointly learn the dependencies between labeling styles and the part segmentation model, allowing us to utiliz…
The absence of large scale datasets with pixel-level supervisions is a significant obstacle for the training of deep convolutional networks for scene text segmentation. For this reason, synthetic data generation is normally employed to enlarge the training dataset. Nonetheless, synthetic data cannot reproduce the complexity and variability of natural images. In this paper, a weakly supervised learning approach is used to reduce the shift between training on real and synthetic data. Pixel-level supervisions for a text detection dataset (i.e. where only bounding-box annotations are available) ar…
AI Clearing, Inc.（AI清算公司）；Semantic Technology Institute, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck（因斯布鲁克大学语义技术研究所）；Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw（华沙大学信息学研究所）
We present n-CPS - a generalisation of the recent state-of-the-art cross pseudo supervision (CPS) approach for the task of semi-supervised semantic segmentation. In n-CPS, there are n simultaneously trained subnetworks that learn from each other through one-hot encoding perturbation and consistency regularisation. We also show that ensembling techniques applied to subnetworks outputs can significantly improve the performance. To the best of our knowledge, n-CPS paired with CutMix outperforms CPS and sets the new state-of-the-art for Pascal VOC 2012 with (1/16, 1/8, 1/4, and 1/2 supervised regi…
Stanford University（斯坦福大学）；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）
The semantic image segmentation task presents a trade-off between test time accuracy and training-time annotation cost. Detailed per-pixel annotations enable training accurate models but are very time-consuming to obtain, image-level class labels are an order of magnitude cheaper but result in less accurate models. We take a natural step from image-level annotation towards stronger supervision: we ask annotators to point to an object if one exists. We incorporate this point supervision along with a novel objectness potential in the training loss function of a CNN model. Experimental results on…
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab（麻省理工学院-IBM沃森人工智能实验室）；Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute（上海期智研究院）
Training a generalizable 3D part segmentation network is quite challenging but of great importance in real-world applications. To tackle this problem, some works design task-specific solutions by translating human understanding of the task to machine's learning process, which faces the risk of missing the optimal strategy since machines do not necessarily understand in the exact human way. Others try to use conventional task-agnostic approaches designed for domain generalization problems with no task prior knowledge considered. To solve the above issues, we propose AutoGPart, a generic method …
The deficiency of segmentation labels is one of the main obstacles to semantic segmentation in the wild. To alleviate this issue, we present a novel framework that generates segmentation labels of images given their image-level class labels. In this weakly supervised setting, trained models have been known to segment local discriminative parts rather than the entire object area. Our solution is to propagate such local responses to nearby areas which belong to the same semantic entity. To this end, we propose a Deep Neural Network (DNN) called AffinityNet that predicts semantic affinity between…
Peking University（北京大学）；Microsoft Research Asia（微软亚洲研究院）
In this paper, we study the semi-supervised semantic segmentation problem via exploring both labeled data and extra unlabeled data. We propose a novel consistency regularization approach, called cross pseudo supervision (CPS). Our approach imposes the consistency on two segmentation networks perturbed with different initialization for the same input image. The pseudo one-hot label map, output from one perturbed segmentation network, is used to supervise the other segmentation network with the standard cross-entropy loss, and vice versa. The CPS consistency has two roles: encourage high similar…
Relational Knowledge Distillation Brings DNN Representations Close Enough to Humans to Be Aligned Without Supervision
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo（东京大学文学部与科学研究科）；Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka（大阪大学工程科学研究科）
Tianjin University（天津大学）；Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院西安光学精密机械研究所）
Joint object detection and semantic segmentation can be applied to many fields, such as self-driving cars and unmanned surface vessels. An initial and important progress towards this goal has been achieved by simply sharing the deep convolutional features for the two tasks. However, this simple scheme is unable to make full use of the fact that detection and segmentation are mutually beneficial. To overcome this drawback, we propose a framework called TripleNet where triple supervisions including detection-oriented supervision, class-aware segmentation supervision, and class-agnostic segmentat…
University of Michigan（密歇根大学）；Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay（印度理工学院孟买分校）
For medical image segmentation, most fully convolutional networks (FCNs) need strong supervision through a large sample of high-quality dense segmentations, which is taxing in terms of costs, time and logistics involved. This burden of annotation can be alleviated by exploiting weak inexpensive annotations such as bounding boxes and anatomical landmarks. However, it is very difficult to \textit{a priori} estimate the optimal balance between the number of annotations needed for each supervision type that leads to maximum performance with the least annotation cost. To optimize this cost-performa…
Mila - Québec AI Institute（米拉-魁北克人工智能研究所）；Meta AI (FAIR)（Meta人工智能（基础人工智能研究团队））；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Université de Montréal（蒙特利尔大学）；HEC Montréal（蒙特利尔高等商学院）
Modeling spatial relationship in the data remains critical across many different tasks, such as image classification, semantic segmentation and protein structure understanding. Previous works often use a unified solution like relative positional encoding. However, there exists different kinds of spatial relations, including short-range, medium-range and long-range relations, and modeling them separately can better capture the focus of different tasks on the multi-range relations (e.g., short-range relations can be important in instance segmentation, while long-range relations should be upweigh…
The Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学医学院）
Automatic segmentation of an organ and its cystic region is a prerequisite of computer-aided diagnosis. In this paper, we focus on pancreatic cyst segmentation in abdominal CT scan. This task is important and very useful in clinical practice yet challenging due to the low contrast in boundary, the variability in location, shape and the different stages of the pancreatic cancer. Inspired by the high relevance between the location of a pancreas and its cystic region, we introduce extra deep supervision into the segmentation network, so that cyst segmentation can be improved with the help of rela…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab（麻省理工学院-IBM沃森人工智能实验室）；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）
Identifying common patterns among events is a key ability in human and machine perception, as it underlies intelligent decision making. We propose an approach for learning semantic relational set abstractions on videos, inspired by human learning. We combine visual features with natural language supervision to generate high-level representations of similarities across a set of videos. This allows our model to perform cognitive tasks such as set abstraction (which general concept is in common among a set of videos?), set completion (which new video goes well with the set?), and odd one out dete…
In temporal action segmentation, Timestamp supervision requires only a handful of labelled frames per video sequence. For unlabelled frames, previous works rely on assigning hard labels, and performance rapidly collapses under subtle violations of the annotation assumptions. We propose a novel Expectation-Maximization (EM) based approach that leverages the label uncertainty of unlabelled frames and is robust enough to accommodate possible annotation errors. With accurate timestamp annotations, our proposed method produces SOTA results and even exceeds the fully-supervised setup in several metr…
Curating a large set of fully annotated training data can be costly, especially for the tasks of medical image segmentation. Scribble, a weaker form of annotation, is more obtainable in practice, but training segmentation models from limited supervision of scribbles is still challenging. To address the difficulties, we propose a new framework for scribble learning-based medical image segmentation, which is composed of mix augmentation and cycle consistency and thus is referred to as CycleMix. For augmentation of supervision, CycleMix adopts the mixup strategy with a dedicated design of random …
Displacement Preserving Relational Distillation for Robust Medical Segmentation
Bowling Green State University（鲍灵格林州立大学）；The University of Findlay（芬德利大学）；University of Alabama at Birmingham（阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；University of Houston - Clear Lake（休斯顿大学清水湖分校）；UTHealth Houston（德克萨斯大学健康科学中心休斯顿分校）
Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；BioMedIA Group, Department of Computing（计算系BioMedIA小组）
Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) has great potential for medical imaging applications. Most of the existing FSS techniques require abundant annotated semantic classes for training. However, these methods may not be applicable for medical images due to the lack of annotations. To address this problem we make several contributions: (1) A novel self-supervised FSS framework for medical images in order to eliminate the requirement for annotations during training. Additionally, superpixel-based pseudo-labels are generated to provide supervision; (2) An adaptive local prototype pooling module pl…
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA)（国际数字经济研究院（IDEA））；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）
Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) and Reference Expression Generation (REG) are mutually inverse tasks that can be naturally jointly trained. Though recent work has explored such joint training, the mechanism of how RES and REG can benefit each other is still unclear. In this paper, we propose a unified mutual supervision framework that enables two tasks to improve each other. Our mutual supervision contains two directions. On the one hand, Disambiguation Supervision leverages the expression unambiguity measurement provided by RES to enhance the language generation of REG. On the other h…
In this paper, we focus on a less explored, but more realistic and complex problem of domain adaptation in LiDAR semantic segmentation. There is a significant drop in performance of an existing segmentation model when training (source domain) and testing (target domain) data originate from different LiDAR sensors. To overcome this shortcoming, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation framework that leverages unlabeled target domain data for self-supervision, coupled with an unpaired mask transfer strategy to mitigate the impact of domain shifts. Furthermore, we introduce the gated adapter …
Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）
Video semantic segmentation has achieved great progress under the supervision of large amounts of labelled training data. However, domain adaptive video segmentation, which can mitigate data labelling constraints by adapting from a labelled source domain toward an unlabelled target domain, is largely neglected. We design temporal pseudo supervision (TPS), a simple and effective method that explores the idea of consistency training for learning effective representations from unlabelled target videos. Unlike traditional consistency training that builds consistency in spatial space, we explore co…
Temporal action segmentation approaches have been very successful recently. However, annotating videos with frame-wise labels to train such models is very expensive and time consuming. While weakly supervised methods trained using only ordered action lists require less annotation effort, the performance is still worse than fully supervised approaches. In this paper, we propose to use timestamp supervision for the temporal action segmentation task. Timestamps require a comparable annotation effort to weakly supervised approaches, and yet provide a more supervisory signal. To demonstrate the eff…
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）；Shanghai AI Lab（上海人工智能实验室）；SenseTime Research（商汤科技研究院）
Medical image segmentation plays an irreplaceable role in computer-assisted diagnosis, treatment planning, and following-up. Collecting and annotating a large-scale dataset is crucial to training a powerful segmentation model, but producing high-quality segmentation masks is an expensive and time-consuming procedure. Recently, weakly-supervised learning that uses sparse annotations (points, scribbles, bounding boxes) for network training has achieved encouraging performance and shown the potential for annotation cost reduction. However, due to the limited supervision signal of sparse annotatio…
Beijing UCAS Space Technology Co., Ltd.（北京国科大空间技术有限公司）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Institute of Computing Technology, CAS（中国科学院计算技术研究所）
Objective and Impact Statement: Accurate organ segmentation is critical for many clinical applications at different clinical sites, which may have their specific application requirements that concern different organs. Introduction: However, learning high-quality, site-specific organ segmentation models is challenging as it often needs on-site curation of a large number of annotated images. Security concerns further complicate the matter. Methods: The paper aims to tackle these challenges via a two-phase aggregation-then-adaptation approach. The first phase of federated aggregation learns a sin…
This paper presents a semi-supervised learning framework for a customized semantic segmentation task using multiview image streams. A key challenge of the customized task lies in the limited accessibility of the labeled data due to the requirement of prohibitive manual annotation effort. We hypothesize that it is possible to leverage multiview image streams that are linked through the underlying 3D geometry, which can provide an additional supervisionary signal to train a segmentation model. We formulate a new cross-supervision method using a shape belief transfer---the segmentation belief in …
Existing studies in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level weak supervision have several limitations: sparse object coverage, inaccurate object boundaries, and co-occurring pixels from non-target objects. To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel framework, namely Explicit Pseudo-pixel Supervision (EPS), which learns from pixel-level feedback by combining two weak supervisions; the image-level label provides the object identity via the localization map and the saliency map from the off-the-shelf saliency detection model offers rich boundaries. We devise a joint…
