Title
Multi-Source Uncertainty Mining for Deep Unsupervised Saliency Detection
Abstract
Deep learning-based image salient object detection (SOD) heavily relies on large-scale training data with pixel-wise labeling. High-quality labels involve intensive labor and are expensive to acquire. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-source uncertainty mining method to facilitate unsupervised deep learning from multiple noisy labels generated by traditional handcrafted SOD methods. We design an Uncertainty Mining Network (UMNet) which consists of multiple Merge-and-Split (MS) modules to recursively analyze the commonality and difference among multiple noisy labels and infer pixel-wise uncertainty map for each label. Meanwhile, we model the noisy labels using Gibbs distribution and propose a weighted uncertainty loss to jointly train the UMNet with the SOD network. As a consequence, our UMNet can adaptively select reliable labels for SOD network learning. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method not only outperforms existing unsupervised methods, but also is on par with fully-supervised state-of-the-art models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01143
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Segmentation,grouping and shape analysis, Scene analysis and understanding, Self-& semi-& meta- & unsupervised learning
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yifan Wang100.34
Wenbo Zhang28826.13
Lijun Wang344318.11
Ting Liu42735232.31
Huchuan Lu54827186.26