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Weakly Supervised Object Localization with Multi-Fold Multiple Instance Learning

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Cinbis, Ramazan Gokberk, Verbeek, Jakob, Schmid, Cordelia·2017·IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

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Object category localization is a challenging problem in computer vision. Standard supervised training requires bounding box annotations of object instances. This time-consuming annotation process is sidestepped in weakly supervised learning. In this case, the supervised information is restricted to binary labels that indicate the absence/presence of object instances in the image, without their locations. We follow a multiple-instance learning approach that iteratively trains the detector and infers the object locations in the positive training images. Our main contribution is a multi-fold multiple instance learning procedure, which prevents training from prematurely locking onto erroneous object locations. This procedure is particularly important when using high-dimensional representations, such as Fisher vectors and convolutional neural network features. We also propose a window refinement method, which improves the localization accuracy by incorporating an objectness prior. We present a detailed experimental evaluation using the PASCAL VOC 2007 dataset, which verifies the effectiveness of our approach.

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  • Multi-instance learning is a group of supervised learning algorithms that has seen widespread application in WSOD.

    “Multi-instance learning is a group of supervised learning algorithms that has seen widespread application in WSOD [202-209].”

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  • Recent work has shown that CNNs have a remarkable ability to localize objects in CONV layers, an ability weakened in FC layers.

    “Recent work has shown that CNNs have a remarkable ability to localize objects in CONV layers (Zhou et al. 2015(Zhou et al. , 2016a;;Cinbis et al. 2017;Oquab et al. 2015;Hariharan et al. 2016), an 11 ability which is weakened in the FC layers.”

    From Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey (2020) · cites this paper as Cinbis et al. 2017

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Authors
Cinbis, R. G., Verbeek, J., & Schmid, C.
Affiliations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Published
2017-01-01
Volume
39
Issue
1
Pages
189-203
ISSN
  • 0162-8828 (ISSN-L)
  • 2160-9292
OpenAlex
W2133324800
Cited by
420
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 59 · 2020: 69 · 2019: 78 · 2018: 56 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 2
FWCI
44.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Bilkent University Institutional Repository (Bilkent University) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • AXES
  • ERC
  • ALLEGRO
  • LEAR team
  • Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes
  • Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann
  • CNRS
  • University Grenoble Alpes, France
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
weakly supervised object localization, multiple instance learning, bounding box annotation, Fisher vectors, convolutional neural network features, Pascal VOC 2007

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