Summary of Space-time Reinforcement Network For Video Object Segmentation, by Yadang Chen et al.
Space-time Reinforcement Network for Video Object Segmentation
by Yadang Chen, Wentao Zhu, Zhi-Xin Yang, Enhua Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 May 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 proposed video object segmentation (VOS) network addresses two challenges in memory-based methods: challenging data disrupting space-time coherence and pixel-level matching leading to mismatching due to noise or distractors. The approach generates an auxiliary frame between adjacent frames, serving as a short-temporal reference for the query one, and learns prototypes for each video object for prototype-level matching. This outperforms state-of-the-art methods on DAVIS 2017 (J&F score: 86.4%) and YouTube VOS 2018 (85.0%), while maintaining high inference speed (32+ FPS). |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to improve video object segmentation networks. Currently, these networks use memory-based methods that are good at some things, but not great at handling difficult data or noisy distractions. To fix this, the authors suggest generating an extra frame between two frames and using prototypes instead of individual pixels. This helps the network work better on tricky videos and keeps it fast. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference
