DAG-Recurrent Neural Networks For Scene Labeling

Bing Shuai, Zhen Zuo, Bing Wang, Gang Wang; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016, pp. 3620-3629

Abstract


In image labeling, local representations for image units (pixels, patches or superpixels) are usually generated from their surrounding image patches, thus long-range contextual information is not effectively encoded. In this paper, we introduce recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to address this issue. Specifically, directed acyclic graph RNNs (DAG-RNNs) are proposed to process DAG-structured images, which enables the network to model long-range semantic dependencies among image units. Our DAG-RNNs are capable of tremendously enhancing the discriminative power of local representations, which significantly benefits the local classification. Meanwhile, we propose a novel class weighting function that attends to rare classes, which phenomenally boosts the recognition accuracy for non-frequent classes. Integrating with convolution and deconvolution layers, our DAG-RNNs achieve new state-of-the-art results on the challenging SiftFlow, CamVid and Barcelona benchmarks.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Shuai_2016_CVPR,
author = {Shuai, Bing and Zuo, Zhen and Wang, Bing and Wang, Gang},
title = {DAG-Recurrent Neural Networks For Scene Labeling},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2016}
}