Knowledge Transfer with Simulated Inter-Image Erasing for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02768v1
• Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 02:54:33 GMT
• Title: Knowledge Transfer with Simulated Inter-Image Erasing for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
• Authors: Tao Chen, XiRuo Jiang, Gensheng Pei, Zeren Sun, Yucheng Wang, Yazhou Yao,
• Abstract summary: We propose a textbfKnowledge textbfTransfer with textbfSimulated Inter-Image textbfErasing (KTSE) approach for weakly supervised semantic segmentation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Though adversarial erasing has prevailed in weakly supervised semantic segmentation to help activate integral object regions, existing approaches still suffer from the dilemma of under-activation and over-expansion due to the difficulty in determining when to stop erasing. In this paper, we propose a \textbf{K}nowledge \textbf{T}ransfer with \textbf{S}imulated Inter-Image \textbf{E}rasing (KTSE) approach for weakly supervised semantic segmentation to alleviate the above problem. In contrast to existing erasing-based methods that remove the discriminative part for more object discovery, we propose a simulated inter-image erasing scenario to weaken the original activation by introducing extra object information. Then, object knowledge is transferred from the anchor image to the consequent less activated localization map to strengthen network localization ability. Considering the adopted bidirectional alignment will also weaken the anchor image activation if appropriate constraints are missing, we propose a self-supervised regularization module to maintain the reliable activation in discriminative regions and improve the inter-class object boundary recognition for complex images with multiple categories of objects. In addition, we resort to intra-image erasing and propose a multi-granularity alignment module to gently enlarge the object activation to boost the object knowledge transfer. Extensive experiments and ablation studies on PASCAL VOC 2012 and COCO datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed approach. Source codes and models are available at https://github.com/NUST-Machine-Intelligence-Laboratory/KTSE.

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