Title
Object-Extent Pooling for Weakly Supervised Single-Shot Localization.
Abstract
In the face of scarcity in detailed training annotations, the ability to perform object localization tasks in real-time with weak-supervision is very valuable. However, the computational cost of generating and evaluating region proposals is heavy. We adapt the concept of Class Activation Maps (CAM) into the very first weakly-supervised u0027single-shotu0027 detector that does not require the use of region proposals. To facilitate this, we propose a novel global pooling technique called Spatial Pyramid Averaged Max (SPAM) pooling for training this CAM-based network for object extent localisation with only weak image-level supervision. We show this global pooling layer possesses a near ideal flow of gradients for extent localization, that offers a good trade-off between the extremes of max and average pooling. Our approach only requires a single network pass and uses a fast-backprojection technique, completely omitting any region proposal steps. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first approach to do so. Due to this, we are able to perform inference in real-time at 35fps, which is an order of magnitude faster than all previous weakly supervised object localization frameworks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.5244/c.31.36
BMVC
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1707.06180
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amogh Gudi1403.42
Nicolai van Rosmalen230.38
Marco Loog31796154.31
Jan C. van Gemert4150598.97