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ViP-DeepLab: Learning Visual Perception with Depth-aware Video Panoptic Segmentation

9 Dec 2020CVPR 2021 1arXiv:2012.05258archive 2025-07-28

Siyuan Qiao, Yukun Zhu, Hartwig Adam, Alan Yuille, Liang-Chieh Chen

In this paper, we present ViP-DeepLab, a unified model attempting to tackle the long-standing and challenging inverse projection problem in vision, which we model as restoring the point clouds from perspective image sequences while providing each point with instance-level semantic interpretations. Solving this problem requires the vision models to predict the spatial location, semantic class, and temporally consistent instance label for each 3D point. ViP-DeepLab approaches it by jointly performing monocular depth estimation and video panoptic segmentation. We name this joint task as Depth-aware Video Panoptic Segmentation, and propose a new evaluation metric along with two derived datasets for it, which will be made available to the public. On the individual sub-tasks, ViP-DeepLab also achieves state-of-the-art results, outperforming previous methods by 5.1% VPQ on Cityscapes-VPS, ranking 1st on the KITTI monocular depth estimation benchmark, and 1st on KITTI MOTS pedestrian. The datasets and the evaluation codes are made publicly available.

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Tasks

Depth EstimationDepth-aware Video Panoptic SegmentationMonocular Depth EstimationPanoptic SegmentationSegmentationVideo Panoptic Segmentation

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Cityscapes-DVPSSemKITTI-DVPS

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Panoptic Segmentation Cityscapes-VPS VIP-Deeplab VPQ 63.1 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Video Panoptic Segmentation Cityscapes-VPS VIP-Deeplab VPQ (stuff) 73.0 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Video Panoptic Segmentation Cityscapes-VPS VIP-Deeplab VPQ (thing) 49.5 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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ViP-DeepLab

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