Show, Match and Segment: Joint Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Matching and Object Co-segmentation


Abstract

We present an approach for jointly matching and segmenting object instances of the same category within a collection of images. In contrast to existing algorithms that tackle the tasks of semantic matching and object co-segmentation in isolation, our method exploits the complementary nature of the two tasks. The key insights of our method are two-fold. First, the estimated dense correspondence fields from semantic matching provide supervision for object co-segmentation by enforcing consistency between the predicted masks from a pair of images. Second, the predicted object masks from object co-segmentation in turn allow us to reduce the adverse effects due to background clutters for improving semantic matching. Our model is end-to-end trainable and does not require supervision from manually annotated correspondences and object masks. We validate the efficacy of our approach on five benchmark datasets: TSS, Internet, PF-PASCAL, PF-WILLOW, and SPair-71k, and show that our algorithm performs favorably against the state-of-the-art methods on both semantic matching and object co-segmentation tasks.
Papers

Citation

Yun-Chun Chen, Yen-Yu Lin, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Jia-Bin Huang, "Show, Match and Segment: Joint Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Matching and Object Co-segmentation", in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2020.

Yun-Chun Chen, Po-Hsiang Huang, Li-Yu Yu, Jia-Bin Huang, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Yen-Yu Lin, "Deep Semantic Matching with Foreground Detection and Cycle-Consistency", in Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2018.


BibTex
@article{MaCoSNet,
  author  = {Chen, Yun-Chun and Lin, Yen-Yu and Yang, Ming-Hsuan and Huang, Jia-Bin}, 
  title   = {Show, Match and Segment: Joint Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Matching and Object Co-segmentation},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)},
  year    = {2020}
}

@inproceedings{WeakMatchNet, author = {Chen, Yun-Chun and Huang, Po-Hsiang and Yu, Li-Yu and Huang, Jia-Bin and Yang, Ming-Hsuan and Lin, Yen-Yu}, title = {Deep Semantic Matching with Foreground Detection and Cycle-Consistency}, booktitle = {Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)}, year = {2018} }
Code and Results

MaCoSNet