2022-11-19 更新
PiPa: Pixel- and Patch-wise Self-supervised Learning for Domain Adaptative Semantic Segmentation
Authors:Mu Chen, Zhedong Zheng, Yi Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to enhance the generalization of the learned model to other domains. The domain-invariant knowledge is transferred from the model trained on labeled source domain, e.g., video game, to unlabeled target domains, e.g., real-world scenarios, saving annotation expenses. Existing UDA methods for semantic segmentation usually focus on minimizing the inter-domain discrepancy of various levels, e.g., pixels, features, and predictions, for extracting domain-invariant knowledge. However, the primary intra-domain knowledge, such as context correlation inside an image, remains underexplored. In an attempt to fill this gap, we propose a unified pixel- and patch-wise self-supervised learning framework, called PiPa, for domain adaptive semantic segmentation that facilitates intra-image pixel-wise correlations and patch-wise semantic consistency against different contexts. The proposed framework exploits the inherent structures of intra-domain images, which: (1) explicitly encourages learning the discriminative pixel-wise features with intra-class compactness and inter-class separability, and (2) motivates the robust feature learning of the identical patch against different contexts or fluctuations. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, which obtains competitive accuracy on the two widely-used UDA benchmarks, i.e., 75.6 mIoU on GTA to Cityscapes and 68.2 mIoU on Synthia to Cityscapes. Moreover, our method is compatible with other UDA approaches to further improve the performance without introducing extra parameters.
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From colouring-in to pointillism: revisiting semantic segmentation supervision
Authors:Rodrigo Benenson, Vittorio Ferrari
The prevailing paradigm for producing semantic segmentation training data relies on densely labelling each pixel of each image in the training set, akin to colouring-in books. This approach becomes a bottleneck when scaling up in the number of images, classes, and annotators. Here we propose instead a pointillist approach for semantic segmentation annotation, where only point-wise yes/no questions are answered. We explore design alternatives for such an active learning approach, measure the speed and consistency of human annotators on this task, show that this strategy enables training good segmentation models, and that it is suitable for evaluating models at test time. As concrete proof of the scalability of our method, we collected and released 22.6M point labels over 4,171 classes on the Open Images dataset. Our results enable to rethink the semantic segmentation pipeline of annotation, training, and evaluation from a pointillism point of view.
PDF Open Images V7 available at https://g.co/dataset/open-images
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3D Harmonic Loss: Towards Task-consistent and Time-friendly 3D Object Detection on Edge for V2X Orchestration
Authors:Haolin Zhang, M S Mekala, Zulkar Nain, Dongfang Yang, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
Edge computing-based 3D perception has received attention in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) because real-time monitoring of traffic candidates potentially strengthens Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) orchestration. Thanks to the capability of precisely measuring the depth information on surroundings from LiDAR, the increasing studies focus on lidar-based 3D detection, which significantly promotes the development of 3D perception. Few methods met the real-time requirement of edge deployment because of high computation-intensive operations. Moreover, an inconsistency problem of object detection remains uncovered in the pointcloud domain due to large sparsity. This paper thoroughly analyses this problem, comprehensively roused by recent works on determining inconsistency problems in the image specialisation. Therefore, we proposed a 3D harmonic loss function to relieve the pointcloud based inconsistent predictions. Moreover, the feasibility of 3D harmonic loss is demonstrated from a mathematical optimization perspective. The KITTI dataset and DAIR-V2X-I dataset are used for simulations, and our proposed method considerably improves the performance than benchmark models. Further, the simulative deployment on an edge device (Jetson Xavier TX) validates our proposed model’s efficiency.
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