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Weakly supervised semantic segmentation via saliency perception with uncertainty-guided noise suppression
Liu, Xinyi1; Huang, Guoheng1; Yuan, Xiaochen2; Zheng, Zewen1; Zhong, Guo3; Chen, Xuhang4; Pun, Chi Man5
2024-07-26
Source PublicationVisual Computer
ISSN0178-2789
Abstract

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) has become increasingly popular for achieving remarkable segmentation with only image-level labels. Current WSSS approaches extract Class Activation Mapping (CAM) from classification models to produce pseudo-masks for segmentation supervision. However, due to the gap between image-level supervised classification loss and pixel-level CAM generation tasks, the model tends to activate discriminative regions at the image level rather than pursuing pixel-level classification results. Moreover, insufficient supervision leads to unrestricted attention diffusion in the model, further introducing inter-class recognition noise. In this paper, we introduce a framework that employs Saliency Perception and Uncertainty, which includes a Saliency Perception Module (SPM) with Pixel-wise Transfer Loss (SP-PT), and an Uncertainty-guided Noise Suppression method. Specifically, within the SPM, we employ a hybrid attention mechanism to expand the receptive field of the module and enhance its ability to perceive salient object features. Meanwhile, a Pixel-wise Transfer Loss is designed to guide the attention diffusion of the classification model to non-discriminative regions at the pixel-level, thereby mitigating the bias of the model. To further enhance the robustness of CAM for obtaining more accurate pseudo-masks, we propose a noise suppression method based on uncertainty estimation, which applies a confidence matrix to the loss function to suppress the propagation of erroneous information and correct it, thus making the model more robust to noise. We conducted experiments on the PASCAL VOC 2012 and MS COCO 2014, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework. Code is available at https://github.com/pur-suit/SPU.

KeywordAttention Mechanism Class Activation Mapping Uncertainty Estimation Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
DOI10.1007/s00371-024-03574-1
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Software Engineering
WOS IDWOS:001276948900003
PublisherSPRINGER, ONE NEW YORK PLAZA, SUITE 4600 , NEW YORK, NY 10004, UNITED STATES
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85199668192
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Science and Technology
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Corresponding AuthorHuang, Guoheng; Yuan, Xiaochen
Affiliation1.Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
2.Macao Polytechnic University, Macao
3.Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
4.Huizhou University, Huizhou, China
5.University of Macau, Macao
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Liu, Xinyi,Huang, Guoheng,Yuan, Xiaochen,et al. Weakly supervised semantic segmentation via saliency perception with uncertainty-guided noise suppression[J]. Visual Computer, 2024.
APA Liu, Xinyi., Huang, Guoheng., Yuan, Xiaochen., Zheng, Zewen., Zhong, Guo., Chen, Xuhang., & Pun, Chi Man (2024). Weakly supervised semantic segmentation via saliency perception with uncertainty-guided noise suppression. Visual Computer.
MLA Liu, Xinyi,et al."Weakly supervised semantic segmentation via saliency perception with uncertainty-guided noise suppression".Visual Computer (2024).
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