Title
C-Mil: Continuation Multiple Instance Learning For Weakly Supervised Object Detection
Abstract
Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) is a challenging task when provided with image category supervision but required to simultaneously learn object locations and object detectors. Many WSOD approaches adopt multiple instance learning (MIL) and have non-convex loss functions which are prone to get stuck into local minima (falsely localize object parts) while missing full object extent during training. In this paper, we introduce a continuation optimization method into MIL and thereby creating continuation multiple instance learning (C-MIL), with the intention of alleviating the non-convexity problem in a systematic way. We partition instances into spatially related and class related subsets, and approximate the original loss function with a series of smoothed loss functions defined within the subsets. Optimizing smoothed loss functions prevents the training procedure falling prematurely into local minima and facilitates the discovery of Stable Semantic Extremal Regions (SSERs) which indicate full object extent. On the PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2012 datasets, C-MIL improves the state-of-the-art of weakly supervised object detection and weakly supervised object localization with large margins.(1)
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CVPR.2019.00230
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
Volume
Object detection,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Continuation,Maxima and minima,Artificial intelligence,Partition (number theory)
Journal
abs/1904.05647
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
11
0.49
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fang Wan1213.44
Chang Liu2571117.41
Wei Ke37112.11
Xiangyang Ji453373.14
Jianbin Jiao536732.61
Qixiang Ye691364.51