@inproceedings{huang2018weakly-supervised,
author = {Huang, Zilong and Wang, Xinggang and Wang, Jiasi and Liu, Wenyu and Wang, Jingdong},
title = {Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation Network With Deep Seeded Region Growing},
booktitle = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2018},
month = {April},
abstract = {This paper studies the problem of learning image semantic segmentation networks only using image-level labels as supervision, which is important since it can significantly reduce human annotation efforts. Recent state-of-the-art methods on this problem first infer the sparse and discriminative regions for each object class using a deep classification network, then train semantic a segmentation network using the discriminative regions as supervision. Inspired by the traditional image segmentation methods of seeded region growing, we propose to train a semantic segmentation network starting from the discriminative regions and progressively increase the pixel-level supervision using by seeded region growing. The seeded region growing module is integrated in a deep segmentation network and can benefit from deep features. Different from conventional deep networks which have fixed/static labels, the proposed weakly-supervised network generates new labels using the contextual information within an image. The proposed method significantly outperforms the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using static labels, and obtains the state-of-the-art performance, which are 63.2% mIoU score on the PASCAL VOC 2012 test set and 26.0% mIoU score on the COCO dataset.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/weakly-supervised-semantic-segmentation-network-deep-seeded-region-growing/},
pages = {7014-7023},
edition = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
}