학술논문

Self-Supervised Human Detection and Segmentation via Background Inpainting
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 44(12):9574-9588 Dec, 2022
Subject
Computing and Processing
Bioengineering
Image segmentation
Training
Cameras
Optical imaging
Proposals
Optical sensors
Object detection
Self-supervised training
importance sampling
proposal-based detection and segmentation
image inpainting
Language
ISSN
0162-8828
2160-9292
1939-3539
Abstract
While supervised object detection and segmentation methods achieve impressive accuracy, they generalize poorly to images whose appearance significantly differs from the data they have been trained on. To address this when annotating data is prohibitively expensive, we introduce a self-supervised detection and segmentation approach that can work with single images captured by a potentially moving camera. At the heart of our approach lies the observation that object segmentation and background reconstruction are linked tasks, and that, for structured scenes, background regions can be re-synthesized from their surroundings, whereas regions depicting the moving object cannot. We encode this intuition into a self-supervised loss function that we exploit to train a proposal-based segmentation network. To account for the discrete nature of the proposals, we develop a Monte Carlo-based training strategy that allows the algorithm to explore the large space of object proposals. We apply our method to human detection and segmentation in images that visually depart from those of standard benchmarks and outperform existing self-supervised methods.