Title
DeepUSPS: Deep Robust Unsupervised Saliency Prediction via Self-supervision
Abstract
Deep neural network (DNN) based salient object detection in images based on high-quality labels is expensive. Alternative unsupervised approaches rely on careful selection of multiple handcrafted saliency methods to generate noisy pseudo-ground-truth labels. In this work, we propose a two-stage mechanism for robust unsupervised object saliency prediction, where the first stage involves refinement of the noisy pseudo-labels generated from different handcrafted methods. Each handcrafted method is substituted by a deep network that learns to generate the pseudo-labels. These labels are refined incrementally in multiple iterations via our proposed self-supervision technique. In the second stage, the refined labels produced from multiple networks representing multiple saliency methods are used to train the actual saliency detection network. We show that this self-learning procedure outperforms all the existing unsupervised methods over different datasets. Results are even comparable to those of fully-supervised state-of-the-art approaches. The code is available at https://tinyurl.com/wtlhgo3
Year
Venue
Keywords
2019
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019)
first stage,second stage
Field
DocType
Volume
Salience (neuroscience),Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
32
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1049-5258
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tam Nguyen154.47
Dax, Maximilian210.69
Mummadi Chaithanya Kumar392.96
Ngo Phuong Nhung4376.52
Nguyen Thi Hoai Phuong5484.18
Zhongyu Lou682.14
Thomas Brox77866327.52