Just a Hint: Point-Supervised Camouflaged Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10777v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:17:25 GMT
• Title: Just a Hint: Point-Supervised Camouflaged Object Detection
• Authors: Huafeng Chen, Dian Shao, Guangqian Guo, Shan Gao,
• Abstract summary: Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) demands models to expeditiously and accurately distinguish objects seamlessly in the environment. We propose to fulfill this task with the help of only one point supervision. Specifically, by swiftly clicking on each object, we first adaptively expand the original point-based annotation to a reasonable hint area. Then, to avoid partial localization around discriminative parts, we propose an attention regulator to scatter model attention to the whole object.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) demands models to expeditiously and accurately distinguish objects which conceal themselves seamlessly in the environment. Owing to the subtle differences and ambiguous boundaries, COD is not only a remarkably challenging task for models but also for human annotators, requiring huge efforts to provide pixel-wise annotations. To alleviate the heavy annotation burden, we propose to fulfill this task with the help of only one point supervision. Specifically, by swiftly clicking on each object, we first adaptively expand the original point-based annotation to a reasonable hint area. Then, to avoid partial localization around discriminative parts, we propose an attention regulator to scatter model attention to the whole object through partially masking labeled regions. Moreover, to solve the unstable feature representation of camouflaged objects under only point-based annotation, we perform unsupervised contrastive learning based on differently augmented image pairs (e.g. changing color or doing translation). On three mainstream COD benchmarks, experimental results show that our model outperforms several weakly-supervised methods by a large margin across various metrics.

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