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SeGAN: Segmenting and Generating the Invisible
Objects often occlude each other in scenes; Inferring their appearance beyond
their visible parts plays an important role in scene understanding, depth
estimation, object interaction and manipulation. In this paper, we study the
challenging problem of completing the appearance of occluded objects. Doing so
requires knowing which pixels to paint (segmenting the invisible parts of
objects) and what color to paint them (generating the invisible parts). Our
proposed novel solution, SeGAN, jointly optimizes for both segmentation and
generation of the invisible parts of objects. Our experimental results show
that: (a) SeGAN can learn to generate the appearance of the occluded parts of
objects; (b) SeGAN outperforms state-of-the-art segmentation baselines for the
invisible parts of objects; (c) trained on synthetic photo realistic images,
SeGAN can reliably segment natural images; (d) by reasoning about occluder
occludee relations, our method can infer depth layering.Comment: Accepted to CVPR18 as spotligh
Sparsity Invariant CNNs
In this paper, we consider convolutional neural networks operating on sparse
inputs with an application to depth upsampling from sparse laser scan data.
First, we show that traditional convolutional networks perform poorly when
applied to sparse data even when the location of missing data is provided to
the network. To overcome this problem, we propose a simple yet effective sparse
convolution layer which explicitly considers the location of missing data
during the convolution operation. We demonstrate the benefits of the proposed
network architecture in synthetic and real experiments with respect to various
baseline approaches. Compared to dense baselines, the proposed sparse
convolution network generalizes well to novel datasets and is invariant to the
level of sparsity in the data. For our evaluation, we derive a novel dataset
from the KITTI benchmark, comprising 93k depth annotated RGB images. Our
dataset allows for training and evaluating depth upsampling and depth
prediction techniques in challenging real-world settings and will be made
available upon publication
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