Learning to Segment Moving Objects

  • Pavel Tokmakov
  • Cordelia Schmid
  • Karteek Alahari

Received: 2 December 2017

Accepted: 10 September 2018

Overview

Appearance Network

  • high-level encoding of a frame
  • objects and background separation
  • DeepLab v1
  • DeepLab v2
w \times h \rightarrow 128 \times w/8 \times h/8
w×h→128×w/8×h/8w \times h \rightarrow 128 \times w/8 \times h/8

Motion Pattern Network

Input: 2 consecutive video frames

Output: per-pixel motion labels

trained on synthetic data = easy GT

and finetuned on real videos

f(x) = \max(0, x)
f(x)=max⁡(0,x)f(x) = \max(0, x)

Training [synthetic]

  • FlyingThings3D dataset
  • easy GT optical  flow annotations
  • 2250 video sequences
  • mini-batch SGD

Result [synthetic]

Result [real-world]

 ConvGRU Visual Memory Module

h - state matrix

z_t = \sigma(x_t * w_{xz} + h_{t-1} * w_{hz} + b_z)
zt=σ(xt∗wxz+ht−1∗whz+bz)z_t = \sigma(x_t * w_{xz} + h_{t-1} * w_{hz} + b_z)
r_t = \sigma(x_t * w_{xr} + h_{t-1} * w_{hr} + b_r)
rt=σ(xt∗wxr+ht−1∗whr+br)r_t = \sigma(x_t * w_{xr} + h_{t-1} * w_{hr} + b_r)
\tilde{h_t} = \tanh(x_t * w_{x\tilde{h}} + r_t \odot h_{t-1} * w_{h\tilde{h}} + b_{\tilde{h}})
ht~=tanh⁡(xt∗wxh~+rt⊙ht−1∗whh~+bh~)\tilde{h_t} = \tanh(x_t * w_{x\tilde{h}} + r_t \odot h_{t-1} * w_{h\tilde{h}} + b_{\tilde{h}})
h_t = (1 - z_t) \odot h_{t-1} + z_t \odot \tilde{h_t}
ht=(1−zt)⊙ht−1+zt⊙ht~h_t = (1 - z_t) \odot h_{t-1} + z_t \odot \tilde{h_t}

Bidirectional Processing

Training

  • backprop
  • 6n layer CNN (12n bidirectional)
  • pretrained appearance and motion networks
  • DAVIS dataset (real-world sequences) + augmentation

Experiments

  • training datasets:
    • FT3D
    • DAVIS
  • testing datasets:
    • FT3D
    • DAVIS
    • FusionSeg
    • FBMS
    • SegTrack-v2

Appearance stream

  • DeepLab-v1
  • DeepLab-v2

Training MP-Net

  • mini-batch (13) SGD
  • learning rate: 0.003
  • momentum: 0.9
  • weight decay: 0.005
  • 27 epochs
  • learning rate and weight decay * 0.1 every 9 epochs
  • downsample FT3D (by 2)

Training Visual Memory Module

  • backprop and RMSProp
  • learning rate: 0.0001 (decreased after every epoch)
  • weight decay: 0.005
  • initialization of conv methods (except ConvGRU) with xiavier method
  • batch - random video and random subset of 14 consec. frames
  • 7 x 7 consolutions on ConvGRU
  • 30000 iterations
\frac{1}{n_{in}}
1nin\frac{1}{n_{in}}
\frac{2}{n_{in} + n_{out}}
2nin+nout\frac{2}{n_{in} + n_{out}}
\frac{2}{n_{in}}
2nin\frac{2}{n_{in}}

MP-Net design

Input

  • RGB data (single vs pair)
  • GT vs estimation optical flow
  • optical flow as flow vectors vs angle field
  • + combinations

Flow quality

EpicFlow vs FlowNet 2.0 vs LDOF

Training on real videos

training on FusionSeg and DAVIS

MP-Net influence

Motion network influence on whole model

State-of-the-Art

  • DeepLab-v2 appearance stream
  • ConvGRU memory model trained on DAVIS
  • Bi-directional processing
  • MP-Net finetuned on FusionSeg with FlowNet 2.0
  • DenseCRF post-processing

Resulting model

Benchmarks

  • DAVIS
  • FBMS
  • SegTrack-v2

DAVIS

previous SotA - ARP beat by 2%

DAVIS

FBMS

  • ARP by 12%
  • MP-Net-V by 6%

FBMS

SegTrack-v2

SegTrack-v2

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