Zero-Shot Monocular Motion Segmentation in the Wild by Combining Deep Learning with Geometric Motion Model Fusion

Yuxiang Huang, Yuhao Chen, John Zelek; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024, pp. 2733-2743

Detecting and segmenting moving objects from a moving monocular camera is challenging in the presence of unknown camera motion diverse object motions and complex scene structures. Most existing methods rely on a single motion cue to perform motion segmentation which is usually insufficient when facing different complex environments. While a few recent deep learning based methods are able to combine multiple motion cues to achieve improved accuracy they depend heavily on vast datasets and extensive annotations making them less adaptable to new scenarios. To address these limitations we propose a novel monocular dense segmentation method that achieves state-of-the-art motion segmentation results in a zero-shot manner. The proposed method synergestically combines the strengths of deep learning and geometric model fusion methods by performing geometric model fusion on object proposals. Experiments show that our method achieves competitive results on several motion segmentation datasets and even surpasses some state-of-the-art supervised methods on certain benchmarks while not being trained on any data. We also present an ablation study to show the effectiveness of combining different geometric models together for motion segmentation highlighting the value of our geometric model fusion strategy.