Summary of Hunting Attributes: Context Prototype-aware Learning For Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation, by Feilong Tang et al.
Hunting Attributes: Context Prototype-Aware Learning for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
by Feilong Tang, Zhongxing Xu, Zhaojun Qu, Wei Feng, Xingjian Jiang, Zongyuan Ge
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a novel approach to semantic segmentation, called Context Prototype-Aware Learning (CPAL), which aims to improve the accuracy of class activation maps (CAM) by mitigating knowledge bias between instances and contexts. The authors argue that current weakly supervised semantic segmentation methods are limited by their inability to capture diverse and fine-grained feature attributes of instances. To address this, CPAL leverages prototype learning theory to enhance instance comprehension by accurately capturing intra-class variations in object features through context-aware prototypes. The method also incorporates feature distribution alignment to optimize prototype awareness and a unified training framework that combines label-guided classification supervision and prototypes-guided self-supervision. Experimental results on PASCAL VOC 2012 and MS COCO 2014 demonstrate the effectiveness of CPAL, achieving state-of-the-art performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about improving computer vision’s ability to identify objects in images. Right now, it’s good at recognizing whole objects, but struggles with parts of objects or tiny details. The authors created a new way to do this called CPAL (Context Prototype-Aware Learning). They want to help the model understand what makes each object unique by looking at how similar things are arranged together. This will make the computer better at identifying objects in everyday situations. They tested their method on two big datasets and it worked really well, even beating other state-of-the-art methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Classification * Semantic segmentation * Supervised
