CoSegNet: Image Co-segmentation using a Conditional Siamese Convolutional Network
CoSegNet: Image Co-segmentation using a Conditional Siamese Convolutional Network
Sayan Banerjee, Avik Hati, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Rajbabu Velmurugan
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 673-679.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/95
The objective in image co-segmentation is to jointly
segment unknown common objects from a given
set of images. In this paper, we propose a novel
deep convolution neural network based end-to-end
co-segmentation model. It is composed of a metric
learning and decision network leading to a novel
conditional siamese encoder-decoder network for
estimating a co-segmentation mask. The role of the
metric learning network is to find an optimum latent
feature space where objects of the same class
are closer and that of different classes are separated
by a certain margin. Depending on the
extracted features, the decision network decides
whether input images have common objects or not
and the encoder-decoder network produces a cosegmentation
mask accordingly. Key aspects of the
architecture are as follows. First, it is completely
class agnostic and does not require any semantic
information. Second, in addition to producing
masks, the decoder network also learns similarity
across image pairs that improves co-segmentation
significantly. Experimental results reflect an excellent
performance of our method compared to state of-the-art
methods on challenging co-segmentation
datasets.
Keywords:
Computer Vision: Computer Vision
Machine Learning Applications: Applications of Supervised Learning
Computer Vision: 2D and 3D Computer Vision
Machine Learning: Deep Learning