Learning to Segment via Cut-and-Paste

Tal Remez, Jonathan Huang, Matthew Brown; Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, pp. 37-52

Abstract


This paper presents a weakly-supervised approach to object instance segmentation. Starting with known or predicted object bounding boxes, we learn object masks by playing a game of cut-and-paste in an adversarial learning setup. A mask generator takes a detection box and Faster R-CNN features, and constructs a segmentation mask that is used to cut-and-paste the object into a new image location. The discriminator tries to distinguish between real objects, and those cut and pasted via the generator, giving a learning signal that leads to improved object masks. We verify our method experimentally using Cityscapes, COCO, and aerial image datasets, learning to segment objects without ever having seen a mask in training. Our method exceeds the performance of existing weakly supervised methods, without requiring hand-tuned segment proposals, and reaches 90% of supervised performance.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Remez_2018_ECCV,
author = {Remez, Tal and Huang, Jonathan and Brown, Matthew},
title = {Learning to Segment via Cut-and-Paste},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
month = {September},
year = {2018}
}