Superpixel Segmentation with Fully Convolutional Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12929v1
• Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 02:42:07 GMT
• Title: Superpixel Segmentation with Fully Convolutional Networks
• Authors: Fengting Yang, Qian Sun, Hailin Jin, Zihan Zhou
• Abstract summary: We present a novel method that employs a simple fully convolutional network to predict superpixels on a regular image grid. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that our method achieves state-of-the-art superpixel segmentation performance. We modify a popular network architecture for stereo matching to simultaneously predict superpixels and disparities.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In computer vision, superpixels have been widely used as an effective way to reduce the number of image primitives for subsequent processing. But only a few attempts have been made to incorporate them into deep neural networks. One main reason is that the standard convolution operation is defined on regular grids and becomes inefficient when applied to superpixels. Inspired by an initialization strategy commonly adopted by traditional superpixel algorithms, we present a novel method that employs a simple fully convolutional network to predict superpixels on a regular image grid. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that our method achieves state-of-the-art superpixel segmentation performance while running at about 50fps. Based on the predicted superpixels, we further develop a downsampling/upsampling scheme for deep networks with the goal of generating high-resolution outputs for dense prediction tasks. Specifically, we modify a popular network architecture for stereo matching to simultaneously predict superpixels and disparities. We show that improved disparity estimation accuracy can be obtained on public datasets.

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