Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Labeling

Pedro Pinheiro, Ronan Collobert
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 32(1):82-90, 2014.

Abstract

The goal of the scene labeling task is to assign a class label to each pixel in an image. To ensure a good visual coherence and a high class accuracy, it is essential for a model to capture long range pixel) label dependencies in images. In a feed-forward architecture, this can be achieved simply by considering a sufficiently large input context patch, around each pixel to be labeled. We propose an approach that consists of a recurrent convolutional neural network which allows us to consider a large input context while limiting the capacity of the model. Contrary to most standard approaches, our method does not rely on any segmentation technique nor any task-specific features. The system is trained in an end-to-end manner over raw pixels, and models complex spatial dependencies with low inference cost. As the context size increases with the built-in recurrence, the system identifies and corrects its own errors. Our approach yields state-of-the-art performance on both the Stanford Background Dataset and the SIFT Flow Dataset, while remaining very fast at test time.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v32-pinheiro14, title = {Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Labeling}, author = {Pinheiro, Pedro and Collobert, Ronan}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning}, pages = {82--90}, year = {2014}, editor = {Xing, Eric P. and Jebara, Tony}, volume = {32}, number = {1}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, address = {Bejing, China}, month = {22--24 Jun}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/pinheiro14.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/pinheiro14.html}, abstract = {The goal of the scene labeling task is to assign a class label to each pixel in an image. To ensure a good visual coherence and a high class accuracy, it is essential for a model to capture long range pixel) label dependencies in images. In a feed-forward architecture, this can be achieved simply by considering a sufficiently large input context patch, around each pixel to be labeled. We propose an approach that consists of a recurrent convolutional neural network which allows us to consider a large input context while limiting the capacity of the model. Contrary to most standard approaches, our method does not rely on any segmentation technique nor any task-specific features. The system is trained in an end-to-end manner over raw pixels, and models complex spatial dependencies with low inference cost. As the context size increases with the built-in recurrence, the system identifies and corrects its own errors. Our approach yields state-of-the-art performance on both the Stanford Background Dataset and the SIFT Flow Dataset, while remaining very fast at test time.} }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Labeling %A Pedro Pinheiro %A Ronan Collobert %B Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2014 %E Eric P. Xing %E Tony Jebara %F pmlr-v32-pinheiro14 %I PMLR %P 82--90 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/pinheiro14.html %V 32 %N 1 %X The goal of the scene labeling task is to assign a class label to each pixel in an image. To ensure a good visual coherence and a high class accuracy, it is essential for a model to capture long range pixel) label dependencies in images. In a feed-forward architecture, this can be achieved simply by considering a sufficiently large input context patch, around each pixel to be labeled. We propose an approach that consists of a recurrent convolutional neural network which allows us to consider a large input context while limiting the capacity of the model. Contrary to most standard approaches, our method does not rely on any segmentation technique nor any task-specific features. The system is trained in an end-to-end manner over raw pixels, and models complex spatial dependencies with low inference cost. As the context size increases with the built-in recurrence, the system identifies and corrects its own errors. Our approach yields state-of-the-art performance on both the Stanford Background Dataset and the SIFT Flow Dataset, while remaining very fast at test time.
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TY - CPAPER TI - Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Labeling AU - Pedro Pinheiro AU - Ronan Collobert BT - Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning DA - 2014/01/27 ED - Eric P. Xing ED - Tony Jebara ID - pmlr-v32-pinheiro14 PB - PMLR DP - Proceedings of Machine Learning Research VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 82 EP - 90 L1 - http://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/pinheiro14.pdf UR - https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/pinheiro14.html AB - The goal of the scene labeling task is to assign a class label to each pixel in an image. To ensure a good visual coherence and a high class accuracy, it is essential for a model to capture long range pixel) label dependencies in images. In a feed-forward architecture, this can be achieved simply by considering a sufficiently large input context patch, around each pixel to be labeled. We propose an approach that consists of a recurrent convolutional neural network which allows us to consider a large input context while limiting the capacity of the model. Contrary to most standard approaches, our method does not rely on any segmentation technique nor any task-specific features. The system is trained in an end-to-end manner over raw pixels, and models complex spatial dependencies with low inference cost. As the context size increases with the built-in recurrence, the system identifies and corrects its own errors. Our approach yields state-of-the-art performance on both the Stanford Background Dataset and the SIFT Flow Dataset, while remaining very fast at test time. ER -
APA
Pinheiro, P. & Collobert, R.. (2014). Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Labeling. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 32(1):82-90 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/pinheiro14.html.

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