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Puzzle-CAM: Improved localization via matching partial and full features

27 Jan 2021arXiv:2101.11253archive 2025-07-28

Sanghyun Jo, In-Jae Yu

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) is introduced to narrow the gap for semantic segmentation performance from pixel-level supervision to image-level supervision. Most advanced approaches are based on class activation maps (CAMs) to generate pseudo-labels to train the segmentation network. The main limitation of WSSS is that the process of generating pseudo-labels from CAMs that use an image classifier is mainly focused on the most discriminative parts of the objects. To address this issue, we propose Puzzle-CAM, a process that minimizes differences between the features from separate patches and the whole image. Our method consists of a puzzle module and two regularization terms to discover the most integrated region in an object. Puzzle-CAM can activate the overall region of an object using image-level supervision without requiring extra parameters. % In experiments, Puzzle-CAM outperformed previous state-of-the-art methods using the same labels for supervision on the PASCAL VOC 2012 test dataset. In experiments, Puzzle-CAM outperformed previous state-of-the-art methods using the same labels for supervision on the PASCAL VOC 2012 dataset. Code associated with our experiments is available at https://github.com/OFRIN/PuzzleCAM.

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SegmentationSemantic SegmentationWeakly supervised Semantic SegmentationWeakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 test Puzzle-CAM (ResNeSt-269) Mean IoU 72.2 #22 of 60 Archive leaderboard report
Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 test Puzzle-CAM (ResNeSt-101) Mean IoU 67.7 #55 of 60 Archive leaderboard report
Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 val Puzzle-CAM (ResNeSt-269) Mean IoU 71.9 #22 of 73 Archive leaderboard report
Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation PASCAL VOC 2012 val Puzzle-CAM (ResNeSt-101) Mean IoU 66.9 #64 of 73 Archive leaderboard report

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