Title
Distraction-Aware Feature Learning For Human Attribute Recognition Via Coarse-To-Fine Attention Mechanism
Abstract
Recently, Human Attribute Recognition (HAR) has become a hot topic due to its scientific challenges and application potentials, where localizing attributes is a crucial stage but not well handled. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning approach to HAR, namely Distraction-aware HAR (Da-HAR). It enhances deep CNN feature learning by improving attribute localization through a coarse-to-fine attention mechanism. At the coarse step, a self-mask block is built to roughly discriminate and reduce distractions, while at the fine step, a masked attention branch is applied to further eliminate irrelevant regions. Thanks to this mechanism, feature learning is more accurate, especially when heavy occlusions and complex backgrounds exist. Extensive experiments are conducted on the WIDER-Attribute and RAP databases, and state-of-the-art results are achieved, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Year
Venue
DocType
2020
AAAI
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
34
2159-5399
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingda Wu100.34
Di Huang295764.87
Yuanfang Guo39518.21
Yunhong Wang43816278.50