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Semantic Component Analysis

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posted on 2015-11-01, 00:00 authored by Calvin Murdock, Fernando de la Torre

Unsupervised and weakly-supervised visual learning in large image collections are critical in order to avoid the time-consuming and error-prone process of manual labeling. Standard approaches rely on methods like multiple-instance learning or graphical models, which can be computationally intensive and sensitive to initialization. On the other hand, simpler component analysis or clustering methods usually cannot achieve meaningful invariances or semantic interpretability. To address the issues of previous work, we present a simple but effective method called Semantic Component Analysis (SCA), which provides a decomposition of images into semantic components. Unsupervised SCA decomposes additive image representations into spatially-meaningful visual components that naturally correspond to object categories. Using an overcomplete representation that allows for rich instance-level constraints and spatial priors, SCA gives improved results and more interpretable components in comparison to traditional matrix factorization techniques. If weakly-supervised information is available in the form of image-level tags, SCA factorizes a set of images into semantic groups of superpixels. We also provide qualitative connections to traditional methods for component analysis (e.g. Grassmann averages, PCA, and NMF). The effectiveness of our approach is validated through synthetic data and on the MSRC2 and Sift Flow datasets, demonstrating competitive results in unsupervised and weakly-supervisedsemantic segmentation.

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2015-11-01

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