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Model Adaptation with Synthetic and Real Data for Semantic Dense Foggy Scene Understanding
This work addresses the problem of semantic scene understanding under dense
fog. Although considerable progress has been made in semantic scene
understanding, it is mainly related to clear-weather scenes. Extending
recognition methods to adverse weather conditions such as fog is crucial for
outdoor applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method, named
Curriculum Model Adaptation (CMAda), which gradually adapts a semantic
segmentation model from light synthetic fog to dense real fog in multiple
steps, using both synthetic and real foggy data. In addition, we present three
other main stand-alone contributions: 1) a novel method to add synthetic fog to
real, clear-weather scenes using semantic input; 2) a new fog density
estimator; 3) the Foggy Zurich dataset comprising real foggy images,
with pixel-level semantic annotations for images with dense fog. Our
experiments show that 1) our fog simulation slightly outperforms a
state-of-the-art competing simulation with respect to the task of semantic
foggy scene understanding (SFSU); 2) CMAda improves the performance of
state-of-the-art models for SFSU significantly by leveraging unlabeled real
foggy data. The datasets and code are publicly available.Comment: final version, ECCV 201
Highlighting objects of interest in an image by integrating saliency and depth
Stereo images have been captured primarily for 3D reconstruction in the past.
However, the depth information acquired from stereo can also be used along with
saliency to highlight certain objects in a scene. This approach can be used to
make still images more interesting to look at, and highlight objects of
interest in the scene. We introduce this novel direction in this paper, and
discuss the theoretical framework behind the approach. Even though we use depth
from stereo in this work, our approach is applicable to depth data acquired
from any sensor modality. Experimental results on both indoor and outdoor
scenes demonstrate the benefits of our algorithm
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