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Adaptive Temporal Encoding Network for Video Instance-level Human Parsing
Beyond the existing single-person and multiple-person human parsing tasks in
static images, this paper makes the first attempt to investigate a more
realistic video instance-level human parsing that simultaneously segments out
each person instance and parses each instance into more fine-grained parts
(e.g., head, leg, dress). We introduce a novel Adaptive Temporal Encoding
Network (ATEN) that alternatively performs temporal encoding among key frames
and flow-guided feature propagation from other consecutive frames between two
key frames. Specifically, ATEN first incorporates a Parsing-RCNN to produce the
instance-level parsing result for each key frame, which integrates both the
global human parsing and instance-level human segmentation into a unified
model. To balance between accuracy and efficiency, the flow-guided feature
propagation is used to directly parse consecutive frames according to their
identified temporal consistency with key frames. On the other hand, ATEN
leverages the convolution gated recurrent units (convGRU) to exploit temporal
changes over a series of key frames, which are further used to facilitate the
frame-level instance-level parsing. By alternatively performing direct feature
propagation between consistent frames and temporal encoding network among key
frames, our ATEN achieves a good balance between frame-level accuracy and time
efficiency, which is a common crucial problem in video object segmentation
research. To demonstrate the superiority of our ATEN, extensive experiments are
conducted on the most popular video segmentation benchmark (DAVIS) and a newly
collected Video Instance-level Parsing (VIP) dataset, which is the first video
instance-level human parsing dataset comprised of 404 sequences and over 20k
frames with instance-level and pixel-wise annotations.Comment: To appear in ACM MM 2018. Code link:
https://github.com/HCPLab-SYSU/ATEN. Dataset link: http://sysu-hcp.net/li
Learning Video Object Segmentation with Visual Memory
This paper addresses the task of segmenting moving objects in unconstrained
videos. We introduce a novel two-stream neural network with an explicit memory
module to achieve this. The two streams of the network encode spatial and
temporal features in a video sequence respectively, while the memory module
captures the evolution of objects over time. The module to build a "visual
memory" in video, i.e., a joint representation of all the video frames, is
realized with a convolutional recurrent unit learned from a small number of
training video sequences. Given a video frame as input, our approach assigns
each pixel an object or background label based on the learned spatio-temporal
features as well as the "visual memory" specific to the video, acquired
automatically without any manually-annotated frames. The visual memory is
implemented with convolutional gated recurrent units, which allows to propagate
spatial information over time. We evaluate our method extensively on two
benchmarks, DAVIS and Freiburg-Berkeley motion segmentation datasets, and show
state-of-the-art results. For example, our approach outperforms the top method
on the DAVIS dataset by nearly 6%. We also provide an extensive ablative
analysis to investigate the influence of each component in the proposed
framework
Dynamic Face Video Segmentation via Reinforcement Learning
For real-time semantic video segmentation, most recent works utilised a
dynamic framework with a key scheduler to make online key/non-key decisions.
Some works used a fixed key scheduling policy, while others proposed adaptive
key scheduling methods based on heuristic strategies, both of which may lead to
suboptimal global performance. To overcome this limitation, we model the online
key decision process in dynamic video segmentation as a deep reinforcement
learning problem and learn an efficient and effective scheduling policy from
expert information about decision history and from the process of maximising
global return. Moreover, we study the application of dynamic video segmentation
on face videos, a field that has not been investigated before. By evaluating on
the 300VW dataset, we show that the performance of our reinforcement key
scheduler outperforms that of various baselines in terms of both effective key
selections and running speed. Further results on the Cityscapes dataset
demonstrate that our proposed method can also generalise to other scenarios. To
the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to use reinforcement learning
for online key-frame decision in dynamic video segmentation, and also the first
work on its application on face videos.Comment: CVPR 2020. 300VW with segmentation labels is available at:
https://github.com/mapleandfire/300VW-Mas
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