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Attention to Scale: Scale-Aware Semantic Image Segmentation

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Chen, Liang-Chieh, Yang, Yi, Wang, Jiang, Xu, Wei, Yuille, Alan L.·2016·2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
DOI 10.1109/cvpr.2016.396
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Incorporating multi-scale features in fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) has been a key element to achieving state-of-the-art performance on semantic image segmentation. One common way to extract multi-scale features is to feed multiple resized input images to a shared deep network and then merge the resulting features for pixelwise classification. In this work, we propose an attention mechanism that learns to softly weight the multi-scale features at each pixel location. We adapt a state-of-the-art semantic image segmentation model, which we jointly train with multi-scale input images and the attention model. The proposed attention model not only outperforms averageand max-pooling, but allows us to diagnostically visualize the importance of features at different positions and scales. Moreover, we show that adding extra supervision to the output at each scale is essential to achieving excellent performance when merging multi-scale features. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our model with extensive experiments on three challenging datasets, including PASCAL-Person-Part, PASCAL VOC 2012 and a subset of MS-COCO 2014.

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Authors
Chen, L.-C., Yang, Y., Wang, J., Xu, W., & Yuille, A. L.
Venue
2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2016-06
Pages
3640-3649
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1109/cvpr.2016.396
OpenAlex
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Cited by
1,377
References
15
FWCI
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Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Chen, L.-C., Yang, Y., Wang, J., Xu, W., & Yuille, A. L. (2016). Attention to Scale: Scale-Aware Semantic Image Segmentation. 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2016.396

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