Improving Semantic Segmentation via Video Propagation and Label Relaxation

Semantic segmentation requires large amounts of pixel-wise annotations to learn accurate models. In this paper, we present a video prediction-based methodology to scale up training sets by synthesizing new training samples in order to improve the accuracy of semantic segmentation networks. We exploi...

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Published in:Proceedings (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Online) pp. 8848 - 8857
Main Authors: Zhu, Yi, Sapra, Karan, Reda, Fitsum A., Shih, Kevin J., Newsam, Shawn, Tao, Andrew, Catanzaro, Bryan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.06.2019
Subjects:
Annotations
Cognition
Computer vision
Deep Learning
Grouping and Shape
Image and Video Synthesis
Predictive models
Segmentation
Semantics
Training
Uncertainty
ISSN:1063-6919
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Summary:Semantic segmentation requires large amounts of pixel-wise annotations to learn accurate models. In this paper, we present a video prediction-based methodology to scale up training sets by synthesizing new training samples in order to improve the accuracy of semantic segmentation networks. We exploit video prediction models' ability to predict future frames in order to also predict future labels. A joint propagation strategy is also proposed to alleviate mis-alignments in synthesized samples. We demonstrate that training segmentation models on datasets augmented by the synthesized samples leads to significant improvements in accuracy. Furthermore, we introduce a novel boundary label relaxation technique that makes training robust to annotation noise and propagation artifacts along object boundaries. Our proposed methods achieve state-of-the-art mIoUs of 83.5% on Cityscapes and 82.9% on CamVid. Our single model, without model ensembles, achieves 72.8% mIoU on the KITTI semantic segmentation test set, which surpasses the winning entry of the ROB challenge 2018.
ISSN:1063-6919
DOI:10.1109/CVPR.2019.00906