See More, Know More: Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation With Co-Attention Siamese Networks

Xiankai Lu, Wenguan Wang, Chao Ma, Jianbing Shen, Ling Shao, Fatih Porikli; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019, pp. 3623-3632

Abstract


We introduce a novel network, called as CO-attention Siamese Network (COSNet), to address the unsupervised video object segmentation task from a holistic view. We emphasize the importance of inherent correlation among video frames and incorporate a global co-attention mechanism to improve further the state-of-the-art deep learning based solutions that primarily focus on learning discriminative foreground representations over appearance and motion in short-term temporal segments. The co-attention layers in our network provide efficient and competent stages for capturing global correlations and scene context by jointly computing and appending co-attention responses into a joint feature space. We train COSNet with pairs of video frames, which naturally augments training data and allows increased learning capacity. During the segmentation stage, the co-attention model encodes useful information by processing multiple reference frames together, which is leveraged to infer the frequently reappearing and salient foreground objects better. We propose a unified and end-to-end trainable framework where different co-attention variants can be derived for mining the rich context within videos. Our extensive experiments over three large benchmarks manifest that COSNet outperforms the current alternatives by a large margin. We will publicly release our implementation and models.

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@InProceedings{Lu_2019_CVPR,
author = {Lu, Xiankai and Wang, Wenguan and Ma, Chao and Shen, Jianbing and Shao, Ling and Porikli, Fatih},
title = {See More, Know More: Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation With Co-Attention Siamese Networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2019}
}