SILCO: Show a Few Images, Localize the Common Object

Tao Hu, Pascal Mettes, Jia-Hong Huang, Cees G. M. Snoek; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 5067-5076

Abstract


Few-shot learning is a nascent research topic, motivated by the fact that traditional deep learning requires tremendous amounts of data. In this work, we propose a new task along this research direction, we call few-shot common-localization. Given a few weakly-supervised support images, we aim to localize the common object in the query image without any box annotation. This task differs from standard few-shot settings, since we aim to address the localization problem, rather than the global classification problem. To tackle this new problem, we propose a network that aims to get the most out of the support and query images. To that end, we introduce a spatial similarity module that searches the spatial commonality among the given images. We furthermore introduce a feature reweighting module to balance the influence of different support images through graph convolutional networks. To evaluate few-shot common-localization, we repurpose and reorganize the well-known Pascal VOC and MS-COCO datasets, as well as a video dataset from ImageNet VID. Experiments on the new settings for few-shot common-localization shows the importance of searching for spatial similarity and feature reweighting, outperforming baselines from related tasks.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Hu_2019_ICCV,
author = {Hu, Tao and Mettes, Pascal and Huang, Jia-Hong and Snoek, Cees G. M.},
title = {SILCO: Show a Few Images, Localize the Common Object},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}