The semantic segmentation produced by most state-of-the-art methods does not show satisfactory adherence to object boundaries. Methods such as fully-connected conditional random fields (CRFs) can significantly refine segmentation predictions. However, they rely on supervised parameter optimization that depends upon specific datasets and predictor modules. We propose an unsupervised method for semantic segmentation refinement that takes as input the confidence scores generated by a segmentation network and re-labels pixels with low confidence levels. More specifically, a region growing mechanism aggregates these pixels to neighboring areas with high confidence scores and similar appearance. To minimize the impact of high-confidence prediction errors, our algorithm performs multiple growing steps by Monte Carlo sampling initial seeds in high-confidence regions. Our method provides both running time and segmentation improvements comparable to state-of-the-art refinement approaches for semantic segmentation, as demonstrated by evaluations on multiple publicly available benchmark datasets.
The relatively recent development of DCNNs trained on large publicly available datasets represented an inflection point in image understanding research. Compared to the period when models based on hand-engineered features (e.g. HOG @cite_20 , SIFT @cite_15 ) were the norm, currently the state-of-the-art in object recognition tasks is being improved at a dramatically faster pace. Between 2011 and 2015, the top- @math classification error on the ImageNet dataset was reduced from @math 1 32 @math 1 8 @math 28$ state-of-the-art algorithms. One of the most widely-used method is the Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC) algorithm @cite_1 , a -based method that groups pixels into clusters according to their proximity in both spatial and color spaces. Semantic segmentation models using superpixels traditionally employ them as a pre-processing step. The image is first divided into superpixels, followed by a prediction step in which each element is individually evaluated using engineered hierarchical features @cite_23 or DCNNs @cite_13 @cite_17 .
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We evaluated how deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) could assist in the labor-intensive process of human visual searches for objects of interest in high-resolution imagery over large areas of the Earth’s surface. Various DCNN were trained and tested using fewer than 100 positive training examples (China only) from a worldwide surface-to-air-missile (SAM) site dataset. A ResNet-101 DCNN achieved a 98.2 average accuracy for the China SAM site data. The ResNet-101 DCNN was used to process ∼19.6 M image chips over a large study area in southeastern China. DCNN chip detections (∼9300) were postprocessed with a spatial clustering algorithm to produce a ranked list of ∼2100 candidate SAM site locations. The combination of DCNN processing and spatial clustering effectively reduced the search area by ∼660X (0.15 of the DCNN-processed land area). An efficient web interface was used to facilitate a rapid serial human review of the candidate SAM sites in the China study area. Four novice imagery analysts with no prior imagery analysis experience were able to complete a DCNN-assisted SAM site search in an average time of ∼42 min. This search was ∼81X faster than a traditional visual search over an equivalent land area of ∼88,640 km2 while achieving nearly identical statistical accuracy (∼90 F1). The availability of large-scale annotated data and the uneven separability of different data categories have become two major impediments of deep learning for image classification. In this paper, we present a semi-supervised hierarchical convolutional neural network (SS-HCNN) to address these two challenges. A large-scale unsupervised maximum margin clustering technique is designed, which splits images into a number of hierarchical clusters iteratively to learn cluster-level CNNs at parent nodes and category-level CNNs at leaf nodes. The splitting uses the similarity of CNN features to group visually similar images into the same cluster, which relieves the uneven data separability constraint. With the hierarchical cluster-level CNNs capturing certain high-level image category information, the category-level CNNs can be trained with a small amount of labeled images, and this relieves the data annotation constraint. A novel cluster splitting criterion is also designed, which automatically terminates the image clustering in the tree hierarchy. The proposed SS-HCNN has been evaluated on the CIFAR-100 and ImageNet classification datasets. The experiments show that the SS-HCNN trained using a portion of labeled training images can achieve comparable performance with other fully trained CNNs using all labeled images. Additionally, the SS-HCNN trained using all labeled images clearly outperforms other fully trained CNNs. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have recently shown state of the art performance in high level vision tasks, such as image classification and object detection. This work brings together methods from DCNNs and probabilistic graphical models for addressing the task of pixel-level classification (also called "semantic image segmentation"). We show that responses at the final layer of DCNNs are not sufficiently localized for accurate object segmentation. This is due to the very invariance properties that make DCNNs good for high level tasks. We overcome this poor localization property of deep networks by combining the responses at the final DCNN layer with a fully connected Conditional Random Field (CRF). Qualitatively, our "DeepLab" system is able to localize segment boundaries at a level of accuracy which is beyond previous methods. Quantitatively, our method sets the new state-of-art at the PASCAL VOC-2012 semantic image segmentation task, reaching 71.6 IOU accuracy in the test set. We show how these results can be obtained efficiently: Careful network re-purposing and a novel application of the 'hole' algorithm from the wavelet community allow dense computation of neural net responses at 8 frames per second on a modern GPU. In this paper, we examined the effectiveness of deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) for food photo recognition task. Food recognition is a kind of fine-grained visual recognition which is relatively harder problem than conventional image recognition. To tackle this problem, we sought the best combination of DCNN-related techniques such as pre-training with the large-scale ImageNet data, fine-tuning and activation features extracted from the pre-trained DCNN. From the experiments, we concluded the fine-tuned DCNN which was pre-trained with 2000 categories in the ImageNet including 1000 food-related categories was the best method, which achieved 78.77 as the top-1 accuracy for UEC-FOOD100 and 67.57 for UEC-FOOD256, both of which were the best results so far. In addition, we applied the food classifier employing the best combination of the DCNN techniques to Twitter photo data. We have achieved the great improvements on food photo mining in terms of both the number of food photos and accuracy. In addition to its high classification accuracy, we found that DCNN was very suitable for large-scale image data, since it takes only 0.03 seconds to classify one food photo with GPU.