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CVPR 2017 workshop on deep learning for robotic vision, Date: 2017/07/21 - 2017/07/21, Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Publication date: 2017-01-01
Volume: 2017-July
ISSN: 9781538607336
Publisher: CVPR; Honolulu, Hawaii

Proceedings

Author:

De Brabandere, Bert
Neven, Davy ; Van Gool, Luc ; Proesmans, Marc

Keywords:

PSI_VISICS, Science & Technology, Technology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, PSI_4271

Abstract:

© 2017 IEEE. Semantic instance segmentation remains a challenge. We propose to tackle the problem with a discriminative loss function, operating at pixel level, that encourages a convolutional network to produce a representation of the image that can easily be clustered into instances with a simple post-processing step. Our approach of combining an offthe- shelf network with a principled loss function inspired by a metric learning objective is conceptually simple and distinct from recent efforts in instance segmentation and is well-suited for real-time applications. In contrast to previous works, our method does not rely on object proposals or recurrent mechanisms and is particularly well suited for tasks with complex occlusions. A key contribution of our work is to demonstrate that such a simple setup without bells and whistles is effective and can perform on-par with more complex methods. We achieve competitive performance on the Cityscapes segmentation benchmark.