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Learning Discriminative Feature with CRF for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation

4 Aug 2020ECCV 2020 8arXiv:2008.01270archive 2025-07-28

Mingmin Zhen, Shiwei Li, Lei Zhou, Jiaxiang Shang, Haoan Feng, Tian Fang, Long Quan

In this paper, we introduce a novel network, called discriminative feature network (DFNet), to address the unsupervised video object segmentation task. To capture the inherent correlation among video frames, we learn discriminative features (D-features) from the input images that reveal feature distribution from a global perspective. The D-features are then used to establish correspondence with all features of test image under conditional random field (CRF) formulation, which is leveraged to enforce consistency between pixels. The experiments verify that DFNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin with a mean IoU score of 83.4% and ranks first on the DAVIS-2016 leaderboard while using much fewer parameters and achieving much more efficient performance in the inference phase. We further evaluate DFNet on the FBMS dataset and the video saliency dataset ViSal, reaching a new state-of-the-art. To further demonstrate the generalizability of our framework, DFNet is also applied to the image object co-segmentation task. We perform experiments on a challenging dataset PASCAL-VOC and observe the superiority of DFNet. The thorough experiments verify that DFNet is able to capture and mine the underlying relations of images and discover the common foreground objects.

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RGB Salient Object DetectionSemantic SegmentationUnsupervised Video Object SegmentationVideo Object SegmentationVideo Semantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 val DFNet F 81.8 #18 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 val DFNet G 82.6 #18 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 val DFNet J 83.4 #18 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 DFNet F-Score 81.8 #19 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 Ours Jaccard (Mean) 83.4 #20 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Object Segmentation FBMS DFNet F-Score 82.3 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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