Cited by 150Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsMedical Image Segmentation TechniquesDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Gaussian Conditional Random Field Network for Semantic Segmentation

Vemulapalli, Raviteja, Tuzel, Oncel, Liu, Ming-Yu, Chellappa, Rama·2016·2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

In contrast to the existing approaches that use discrete Conditional Random Field (CRF) models, we propose to use a Gaussian CRF model for the task of semantic segmentation. We propose a novel deep network, which we refer to as Gaussian Mean Field (GMF) network, whose layers perform mean field inference over a Gaussian CRF. The proposed GMF network has the desired property that each of its layers produces an output that is closer to the maximum a posteriori solution of the Gaussian CRF compared to its input. By combining the proposed GMF network with deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), we propose a new end-to-end trainable Gaussian conditional random field network. The proposed Gaussian CRF network is composed of three sub-networks: (i) a CNN-based unary network for generating unary potentials, (ii) a CNN-based pairwise network for generating pairwise potentials, and (iii) a GMF network for performing Gaussian CRF inference. When trained end-to-end in a discriminative fashion, and evaluated on the challenging PASCALVOC 2012 segmentation dataset, the proposed Gaussian CRF network outperforms various recent semantic segmentation approaches that combine CNNs with discrete CRF models.

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  • In [52], a Gaussian Mean Field network was proposed and combined with CNNs where all parameters are trainable.

    “In [52], a Gaussian Mean Field (GMF) network was proposed and combined with CNNs where all the parameters are trainable.”
  • Mean-field approximation is often used for efficient inference of the CRF while allowing learning parameters by back-propagation.

    “Alternatively, mean-field approximation [45], [50], [52] is often used for efficient inference of the CRF while allowing learning parameters by back-propagation.”

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Authors
Vemulapalli, R., Tuzel, O., Liu, M.-Y., & Chellappa, R.
Affiliations
  • University of Maryland, College Park (US)
  • Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (United States) (US)
Venue
2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2016-06
Pages
3224-3233
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2473131906
Cited by
150
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 1
FWCI
7.06
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
semantic segmentation, mean-field inference, maximum a posteriori estimation, unary potentials, pair potential, end-to-end learning, convolutional neural networks, Pascal VOC 2012

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