Boosting Weakly Supervised Object Detection via Learning Bounding Box Adjusters

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01499v1
• Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:38:20 GMT
• Title: Boosting Weakly Supervised Object Detection via Learning Bounding Box Adjusters
• Authors: Bowen Dong and Zitong Huang and Yuelin Guo and Qilong Wang and Zhenxing Niu and Wangmeng Zuo
• Abstract summary: Weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) has emerged as an inspiring recent topic to avoid expensive instance-level object annotations. We defend the problem setting for improving localization performance by leveraging the bounding box regression knowledge from a well-annotated auxiliary dataset. Our method performs favorably against state-of-the-art WSOD methods and knowledge transfer model with similar problem setting.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) has emerged as an inspiring recent topic to avoid expensive instance-level object annotations. However, the bounding boxes of most existing WSOD methods are mainly determined by precomputed proposals, thereby being limited in precise object localization. In this paper, we defend the problem setting for improving localization performance by leveraging the bounding box regression knowledge from a well-annotated auxiliary dataset. First, we use the well-annotated auxiliary dataset to explore a series of learnable bounding box adjusters (LBBAs) in a multi-stage training manner, which is class-agnostic. Then, only LBBAs and a weakly-annotated dataset with non-overlapped classes are used for training LBBA-boosted WSOD. As such, our LBBAs are practically more convenient and economical to implement while avoiding the leakage of the auxiliary well-annotated dataset. In particular, we formulate learning bounding box adjusters as a bi-level optimization problem and suggest an EM-like multi-stage training algorithm. Then, a multi-stage scheme is further presented for LBBA-boosted WSOD. Additionally, a masking strategy is adopted to improve proposal classification. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of our method. Our method performs favorably against state-of-the-art WSOD methods and knowledge transfer model with similar problem setting. Code is publicly available at \url{https://github.com/DongSky/lbba_boosted_wsod}.

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