UniAP: Towards Universal Animal Perception in Vision via Few-shot Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09953v1
• Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:13:46 GMT
• Title: UniAP: Towards Universal Animal Perception in Vision via Few-shot Learning
• Authors: Meiqi Sun, Zhonghan Zhao, Wenhao Chai, Hanjun Luo, Shidong Cao, Yanting Zhang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Gaoang Wang
• Abstract summary: We introduce UniAP, a novel Universal Animal Perception model that enables cross-species perception among various visual tasks. By capitalizing on the shared visual characteristics among different animals and tasks, UniAP enables the transfer of knowledge from well-studied species to those with limited labeled data or even unseen species.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Animal visual perception is an important technique for automatically monitoring animal health, understanding animal behaviors, and assisting animal-related research. However, it is challenging to design a deep learning-based perception model that can freely adapt to different animals across various perception tasks, due to the varying poses of a large diversity of animals, lacking data on rare species, and the semantic inconsistency of different tasks. We introduce UniAP, a novel Universal Animal Perception model that leverages few-shot learning to enable cross-species perception among various visual tasks. Our proposed model takes support images and labels as prompt guidance for a query image. Images and labels are processed through a Transformer-based encoder and a lightweight label encoder, respectively. Then a matching module is designed for aggregating information between prompt guidance and the query image, followed by a multi-head label decoder to generate outputs for various tasks. By capitalizing on the shared visual characteristics among different animals and tasks, UniAP enables the transfer of knowledge from well-studied species to those with limited labeled data or even unseen species. We demonstrate the effectiveness of UniAP through comprehensive experiments in pose estimation, segmentation, and classification tasks on diverse animal species, showcasing its ability to generalize and adapt to new classes with minimal labeled examples.

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