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ParseNet: Looking Wider to See Better
We present a technique for adding global context to deep convolutional
networks for semantic segmentation. The approach is simple, using the average
feature for a layer to augment the features at each location. In addition, we
study several idiosyncrasies of training, significantly increasing the
performance of baseline networks (e.g. from FCN). When we add our proposed
global feature, and a technique for learning normalization parameters, accuracy
increases consistently even over our improved versions of the baselines. Our
proposed approach, ParseNet, achieves state-of-the-art performance on SiftFlow
and PASCAL-Context with small additional computational cost over baselines, and
near current state-of-the-art performance on PASCAL VOC 2012 semantic
segmentation with a simple approach. Code is available at
https://github.com/weiliu89/caffe/tree/fcn .Comment: ICLR 2016 submissio
Contour Detection from Deep Patch-level Boundary Prediction
In this paper, we present a novel approach for contour detection with
Convolutional Neural Networks. A multi-scale CNN learning framework is designed
to automatically learn the most relevant features for contour patch detection.
Our method uses patch-level measurements to create contour maps with
overlapping patches. We show the proposed CNN is able to to detect large-scale
contours in an image efficienly. We further propose a guided filtering method
to refine the contour maps produced from large-scale contours. Experimental
results on the major contour benchmark databases demonstrate the effectiveness
of the proposed technique. We show our method can achieve good detection of
both fine-scale and large-scale contours.Comment: IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing 201
Fast Shadow Detection from a Single Image Using a Patched Convolutional Neural Network
In recent years, various shadow detection methods from a single image have
been proposed and used in vision systems; however, most of them are not
appropriate for the robotic applications due to the expensive time complexity.
This paper introduces a fast shadow detection method using a deep learning
framework, with a time cost that is appropriate for robotic applications. In
our solution, we first obtain a shadow prior map with the help of multi-class
support vector machine using statistical features. Then, we use a semantic-
aware patch-level Convolutional Neural Network that efficiently trains on
shadow examples by combining the original image and the shadow prior map.
Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate the proposed method significantly
decreases the time complexity of shadow detection, by one or two orders of
magnitude compared with state-of-the-art methods, without losing accuracy.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to IROS 201
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