Title
Predicting Deeper into the Future of Semantic Segmentation
Abstract
The ability to predict and therefore to anticipate the future is an important attribute of intelligence. It is also of utmost importance in real-time systems, e.g. in robotics or autonomous driving, which depend on visual scene understanding for decision making. While prediction of the raw RGB pixel values in future video frames has been studied in previous work, here we introduce the novel task of predicting semantic segmentations of future frames. Given a sequence of video frames, our goal is to predict segmentation maps of not yet observed video frames that lie up to a second or further in the future. We develop an autoregressive convolutional neural network that learns to iteratively generate multiple frames. Our results on the Cityscapes dataset show that directly predicting future segmentations is substantially better than predicting and then segmenting future RGB frames. Prediction results up to half a second in the future are visually convincing and are much more accurate than those of a baseline based on warping semantic segmentations using optical flow.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICCV.2017.77
2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Keywords
Field
DocType
semantic segmentation,utmost importance,autonomous driving,visual scene understanding,decision making,raw RGB pixel values,future video frames,predicting semantic segmentations,future frames,segmentation maps,autoregressive convolutional neural network,multiple frames,predicting future segmentations,future RGB frames,prediction results,Cityscapes dataset,optical flow
Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,RGB color model,Computer vision,Image warping,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Pixel,Optical flow,Semantics,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2017
1
1550-5499
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-1033-6
30
0.85
References 
Authors
33
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pauline Luc1362.25
Natalia Neverova226514.44
Camille Couprie3133774.61
J. J. Verbeek43944181.44
Yann LeCun5260903771.21