Amodal Segmentation through Out-of-Task and Out-of-Distribution Generalization with a Bayesian Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13175v4
• Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 04:42:39 GMT
• Title: Amodal Segmentation through Out-of-Task and Out-of-Distribution Generalization with a Bayesian Model
• Authors: Yihong Sun, Adam Kortylewski, Alan Yuille
• Abstract summary: Amodal completion is a visual task that humans perform easily but which is difficult for computer vision algorithms. We formulate amodal segmentation as an out-of-task and out-of-distribution generalization problem. Our algorithm outperforms alternative methods that use the same supervision by a large margin.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Amodal completion is a visual task that humans perform easily but which is difficult for computer vision algorithms. The aim is to segment those object boundaries which are occluded and hence invisible. This task is particularly challenging for deep neural networks because data is difficult to obtain and annotate. Therefore, we formulate amodal segmentation as an out-of-task and out-of-distribution generalization problem. Specifically, we replace the fully connected classifier in neural networks with a Bayesian generative model of the neural network features. The model is trained from non-occluded images using bounding box annotations and class labels only, but is applied to generalize out-of-task to object segmentation and to generalize out-of-distribution to segment occluded objects. We demonstrate how such Bayesian models can naturally generalize beyond the training task labels when they learn a prior that models the object's background context and shape. Moreover, by leveraging an outlier process, Bayesian models can further generalize out-of-distribution to segment partially occluded objects and to predict their amodal object boundaries. Our algorithm outperforms alternative methods that use the same supervision by a large margin, and even outperforms methods where annotated amodal segmentations are used during training, when the amount of occlusion is large. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/YihongSun/Bayesian-Amodal.

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