Exploiting temporality for semi-supervised video segmentation

Radu Sibechi, Olaf Booij, Nora Baka, Peter Bloem

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in supervised image segmentation. Video segmentation is less explored, despite the temporal dimension being highly informative. Semantic labels, e.g. that cannot be accurately detected in the current frame, may be inferred by incorporating information from previous frames. However, video segmentation is challenging due to the amount of data that needs to be processed and, more importantly, the cost involved in obtaining ground truth annotations for each frame. In this paper, we tackle the issue of label scarcity by using consecutive frames of a video, where only one frame is annotated. We propose a deep, end-to-end trainable model which leverages temporal information in order to make use of easy to acquire unlabeled data. Our network architecture relies on a novel interconnection of two components: a fully convolutional network to model spatial information and temporal units that are employed at intermediate levels of the convolutional network in order to propagate information through time. The main contribution of this work is the guidance of the temporal signal through the network. We show that only placing a temporal module between the encoder and decoder is suboptimal (baseline). Our extensive experiments on the CityScapes dataset indicate that the resulting model can leverage unlabeled temporal frames and significantly outperform both the frame-by-frame image segmentation and the baseline approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW)
Subtitle of host publication[Proceedings]
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages933-941
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781728150239
ISBN (Print)9781728150246
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event17th IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, ICCVW 2019 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 27 Oct 201928 Oct 2019

Conference

Conference17th IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, ICCVW 2019
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period27/10/1928/10/19

Keywords

  • CNN
  • ConvLSTM
  • Segmentation
  • Semi supervised
  • Temporal convolutional networks
  • Temporal networks
  • Video segmentation

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