1. Object Discovery From a Single Unlabeled Image by Mining Frequent Itemsets With Multi-Scale Features.
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Zhang, Runsheng, Huang, Yaping, Pu, Mengyang, Zhang, Jian, Guan, Qingji, Zou, Qi, and Ling, Haibin
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CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks , *MINERAL industry equipment , *DATA mining , *DATABASES - Abstract
The goal of our work is to discover dominant objects in a very general setting where only a single unlabeled image is given. This is far more challenge than typical co-localization or weakly-supervised localization tasks. To tackle this problem, we propose a simple but effective pattern mining-based method, called Object Location Mining (OLM), which exploits the advantages of data mining and feature representation of pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Specifically, we first convert the feature maps from a pre-trained CNN model into a set of transactions, and then discovers frequent patterns from transaction database through pattern mining techniques. We observe that those discovered patterns, i.e., co-occurrence highlighted regions, typically hold appearance and spatial consistency. Motivated by this observation, we can easily discover and localize possible objects by merging relevant meaningful patterns. Extensive experiments on a variety of benchmarks demonstrate that OLM achieves competitive localization performance compared with the state-of-the-art methods. We also evaluate our approach compared with unsupervised saliency detection methods and achieves competitive results on seven benchmark datasets. Moreover, we conduct experiments on fine-grained classification to show that our proposed method can locate the entire object and parts accurately, which can benefit to improving the classification results significantly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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