DVOS: Self-Supervised Dense-Pattern Video Object Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05131v1
• Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 17:58:36 GMT
• Title: DVOS: Self-Supervised Dense-Pattern Video Object Segmentation
• Authors: Keyhan Najafian, Farhad Maleki, Ian Stavness, Lingling Jin,
• Abstract summary: In Dense Video Object (DVOS) scenarios, each video frame encompasses hundreds of small, dense and partially occluded objects. We propose a semi-self-temporal approach for DVOS utilizing a diffusion-based method through multi-task learning. To demonstrate the utility and efficacy of the proposed approach, we developed DVOS models for wheat head segmentation of handheld and drone-captured videos.
• Score: 6.092973123903838
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video object segmentation approaches primarily rely on large-scale pixel-accurate human-annotated datasets for model development. In Dense Video Object Segmentation (DVOS) scenarios, each video frame encompasses hundreds of small, dense, and partially occluded objects. Accordingly, the labor-intensive manual annotation of even a single frame often takes hours, which hinders the development of DVOS for many applications. Furthermore, in videos with dense patterns, following a large number of objects that move in different directions poses additional challenges. To address these challenges, we proposed a semi-self-supervised spatiotemporal approach for DVOS utilizing a diffusion-based method through multi-task learning. Emulating real videos' optical flow and simulating their motion, we developed a methodology to synthesize computationally annotated videos that can be used for training DVOS models; The model performance was further improved by utilizing weakly labeled (computationally generated but imprecise) data. To demonstrate the utility and efficacy of the proposed approach, we developed DVOS models for wheat head segmentation of handheld and drone-captured videos, capturing wheat crops in fields of different locations across various growth stages, spanning from heading to maturity. Despite using only a few manually annotated video frames, the proposed approach yielded high-performing models, achieving a Dice score of 0.82 when tested on a drone-captured external test set. While we showed the efficacy of the proposed approach for wheat head segmentation, its application can be extended to other crops or DVOS in other domains, such as crowd analysis or microscopic image analysis.

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