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WILDCAT: Weakly Supervised Learning of Deep ConvNets for Image Classification, Pointwise Localization and Segmentation

1 Jul 2017CVPR 2017 7archive 2025-07-28

Thibaut Durand, Taylor Mordan, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord

This paper introduces WILDCAT, a deep learning method which jointly aims at aligning image regions for gaining spatial invariance and learning strongly localized features. Our model is trained using only global image labels and is devoted to three main visual recognition tasks: image classification, weakly supervised object localization and semantic segmentation. WILDCAT extends state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Networks at three main levels: the use of Fully Convolutional Networks for maintaining spatial resolution, the explicit design in the network of local features related to different class modalities, and a new way to pool these features to provide a global image prediction required for weakly supervised training. Extensive experiments show that our model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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General ClassificationImage ClassificationObject LocalizationSemantic SegmentationWeakly Supervised Object DetectionWeakly-Supervised Object LocalizationWeakly-supervised Learningimage-classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Weakly Supervised Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) WILDCAT MAP 53.4 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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