Title
Guided Filter Network for Semantic Image Segmentation
Abstract
The existing publicly available datasets with pixel-level labels contain limited categories, and it is difficult to generalize to the real world containing thousands of categories. In this paper, we propose an approach to generate object masks with detailed pixel-level structures/boundaries automatically to enable semantic image segmentation of thousands of targets in the real world without manually labelling. A Guided Filter Network (GFN) is first developed to learn the segmentation knowledge from an existed dataset, and such GFN then transfers the learned segmentation knowledge to generate initial coarse object masks for the target images. These coarse object masks are treated as pseudo labels to self-optimize the GFN iteratively in the target images. Our experiments on six image sets have demonstrated that our proposed approach can generate object masks with detailed pixel-level structures/boundaries, whose quality is comparable to the manually-labelled ones. Our proposed approach also achieves better performance on semantic image segmentation than most existing weakly-supervised, semi-supervised, and domain adaptation approaches under the same experimental conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TIP.2022.3160399
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image segmentation, Semantics, Training, Feature extraction, Labeling, Manuals, Knowledge engineering, Semantic image segmentation, pixel-level labels, guided filter, deep networks
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1057-7149
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiang Zhang100.68
Wanqing Zhao202.03
Wei Zhang326028.92
Jinye Peng428440.93
Jianping Fan52677192.33