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Abstract | ||
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Zero-shot object detection is an emerging research topic that aims to recognize and localize previously u0027unseenu0027 objects. This setting gives rise to several unique challenges, e.g., highly imbalanced positive vs. negative instance ratio, ambiguity between background and unseen classes and the proper alignment between visual and semantic concepts. Here, we propose an end-to-end deep learning framework underpinned by a novel loss function that seeks to properly align the visual and semantic cues for improved zero-shot learning. We call our objective the u0027Polarity lossu0027 because it explicitly maximizes the gap between positive and negative predictions. Such a margin maximizing formulation is not only important for visual-semantic alignment but it also resolves the ambiguity between background and unseen objects. Our approach is inspired by the embodiment theories in cognitive science, that claim human semantic understanding to be grounded in past experiences (seen objects), related linguistic concepts (word dictionary) and the perception of the physical world (visual imagery). To this end, we learn to attend to a dictionary of related semantic concepts that eventually refines the noisy semantic embeddings and helps establish a better synergy between visual and semantic domains. Our extensive results on MS-COCO and Pascal VOC datasets show as high as 14x mAP improvement over state of the art. |
Year | Venue | DocType |
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2018 | arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | Journal |
Volume | Citations | PageRank |
abs/1811.08982 | 2 | 0.36 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shafin Rahman | 1 | 37 | 5.81 |
| Salman Khan | 2 | 387 | 41.05 |
| Nick Barnes | 3 | 577 | 68.68 |