Learning to Localize Objects with Noisy Labeled Instances

Authors

  • Xiaopeng Zhang National University of Singapore
  • Yang Yang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Jiashi Feng National University of Singapore

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019219

Abstract

This paper addresses Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) with only image-level supervision. We model the missing object locations as latent variables, and contribute a novel self-directed optimization strategy to infer them. With the strategy, our developed Self-Directed Localization Network (SD-LocNet) is able to localize object instance whose initial location is noisy. The self-directed inference hinges on an adaptive sampling method to identify reliable object instance via measuring its localization stability score. In this way, the resulted model is robust to noisy initialized object locations which we find is important in WSOL. Furthermore, we introduce a reliability induced prior propagation strategy to transfer object priors of the reliable instances to those unreliable ones by promoting their feature similarity, which effectively refines the unreliable object instances for better localization. The proposed SD-LocNet achieves 70.9% Cor-Loc and 51.3% mAP on PASCAL VOC 2007, surpassing the state-of-the-arts by a large margin.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Zhang, X., Yang, Y., & Feng, J. (2019). Learning to Localize Objects with Noisy Labeled Instances. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 9219-9226. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019219

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision