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Online Adaptation of Convolutional Neural Networks for Video Object Segmentation

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Voigtlaender, Paul, Leibe, Bastian·2017·Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2017

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We tackle the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation, i.e. segmenting the pixels belonging to an object in the video using the ground truth pixel mask for the first frame. We build on the recently introduced one-shot video object segmentation (OSVOS) approach which uses a pretrained network and fine-tunes it on the first frame. While achieving impressive performance, at test time OSVOS uses the fine-tuned network in unchanged form and is not able to adapt to large changes in object appearance. To overcome this limitation, we propose Online Adaptive Video Object Segmentation (OnAVOS) which updates the network online using training examples selected based on the confidence of the network and the spatial configuration. Additionally, we add a pretraining step based on objectness, which is learned on PASCAL. Our experiments show that both extensions are highly effective and improve the state of the art on DAVIS to an intersection-over-union score of 85.7%.

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  • Adopting a memory architecture to store object information from past frames is indispensable for accurately tracking objects in video.

    “To address the above challenges, adopting a memory architecture to store the object information from past frames is indispensable for accurately tracking objects in video [5,7,10,29,40,52,56,57,64,66,68].”

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    Related Work (p. 2) says the method stores temporal context from video frames implicitly in adapted network weights, and the ablation study (p. 9) reports better segmentation accuracy with online adaptation. The paper does not describe a dedicated memory architecture or establish that one is indispensable for accurate object tracking. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Voigtlaender, P., & Leibe, B.
Affiliations
RWTH Aachen University (DE)
Venue
Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2017
Published
2017
OpenAlex
W2724418412
Cited by
443
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 76 · 2021: 75 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 66 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 1
FWCI
13.67
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
video object segmentation, semi-supervised learning, online adaptation, fine-tuning, PASCAL dataset, spatial configuration

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