Deep Descriptor Transforming for Image Co-Localization

Deep Descriptor Transforming for Image Co-Localization

Xiu-Shen Wei, Chen-Lin Zhang, Yao Li, Chen-Wei Xie, Jianxin Wu, Chunhua Shen, Zhi-Hua Zhou

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 3048-3054. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/425

Reusable model design becomes desirable with the rapid expansion of machine learning applications. In this paper, we focus on the reusability of pre-trained deep convolutional models. Specifically, different from treating pre-trained models as feature extractors, we reveal more treasures beneath convolutional layers, i.e., the convolutional activations could act as a detector for the common object in the image co-localization problem. We propose a simple but effective method, named Deep Descriptor Transforming (DDT), for evaluating the correlations of descriptors and then obtaining the category-consistent regions, which can accurately locate the common object in a set of images. Empirical studies validate the effectiveness of the proposed DDT method. On benchmark image co-localization datasets, DDT consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. Moreover, DDT also demonstrates good generalization ability for unseen categories and robustness for dealing with noisy data.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning
Machine Learning: Deep Learning
Robotics and Vision: Vision and Perception