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F2Net: Learning to Focus on the Foreground for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation

4 Dec 2020arXiv:2012.02534archive 2025-07-28

Daizong Liu, Dongdong Yu, Changhu Wang, Pan Zhou

Although deep learning based methods have achieved great progress in unsupervised video object segmentation, difficult scenarios (e.g., visual similarity, occlusions, and appearance changing) are still not well-handled. To alleviate these issues, we propose a novel Focus on Foreground Network (F2Net), which delves into the intra-inter frame details for the foreground objects and thus effectively improve the segmentation performance. Specifically, our proposed network consists of three main parts: Siamese Encoder Module, Center Guiding Appearance Diffusion Module, and Dynamic Information Fusion Module. Firstly, we take a siamese encoder to extract the feature representations of paired frames (reference frame and current frame). Then, a Center Guiding Appearance Diffusion Module is designed to capture the inter-frame feature (dense correspondences between reference frame and current frame), intra-frame feature (dense correspondences in current frame), and original semantic feature of current frame. Specifically, we establish a Center Prediction Branch to predict the center location of the foreground object in current frame and leverage the center point information as spatial guidance prior to enhance the inter-frame and intra-frame feature extraction, and thus the feature representation considerably focus on the foreground objects. Finally, we propose a Dynamic Information Fusion Module to automatically select relatively important features through three aforementioned different level features. Extensive experiments on DAVIS2016, Youtube-object, and FBMS datasets show that our proposed F2Net achieves the state-of-the-art performance with significant improvement.

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Semantic SegmentationUnsupervised Video Object SegmentationVideo Object SegmentationVideo Semantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 val F2Net F 54.4 #16 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 val F2Net G 83.7 #16 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 val F2Net J 83.1 #16 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation FBMS test F2Net J 77.5 #10 of 15 Archive leaderboard report

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