LOCATE: Localize and Transfer Object Parts for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09665v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:47:49 GMT
• Title: LOCATE: Localize and Transfer Object Parts for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
• Authors: Gen Li, Varun Jampani, Deqing Sun, Laura Sevilla-Lara
• Abstract summary: Humans excel at acquiring knowledge through observation. A key step to acquire this skill is to identify what part of the object affords each action, which is called affordance grounding. We propose a framework called LOCATE that can identify matching object parts across images.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Humans excel at acquiring knowledge through observation. For example, we can learn to use new tools by watching demonstrations. This skill is fundamental for intelligent systems to interact with the world. A key step to acquire this skill is to identify what part of the object affords each action, which is called affordance grounding. In this paper, we address this problem and propose a framework called LOCATE that can identify matching object parts across images, to transfer knowledge from images where an object is being used (exocentric images used for learning), to images where the object is inactive (egocentric ones used to test). To this end, we first find interaction areas and extract their feature embeddings. Then we learn to aggregate the embeddings into compact prototypes (human, object part, and background), and select the one representing the object part. Finally, we use the selected prototype to guide affordance grounding. We do this in a weakly supervised manner, learning only from image-level affordance and object labels. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin on both seen and unseen objects.

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