Watch and Learn: Semi-Supervised Learning of Object Detectors from Videos

We present a semi-supervised approach that localizes multiple unknown objects in videos. We address the problem of training object detectors from sparsely labeled video data. Existing approaches either do not consider multiple objects, or make strong assumptions about dominant motion of the objects present. In contrast, our approach works in a generic setting of sparse labels, and lack of explicit negative data. We show a way to constrain semi-supervised learning by combining multiple weak cues in videos and exploiting decorrelated errors in a multi-feature modeling of data. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by evaluating our automatically labeled data on a variety of metrics including quality, coverage (recall), diversity, and relevance to training a object detector.

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Ishan Misra, Abhinav Shrivastava, Martial Hebert

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Ishan Misra, Abhinav Shrivastava and Martial Hebert. Watch and Learn: Semi-Supervised Learning of Object Detectors from Videos, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by NSF Grant IIS1065336, the Siebel Scholarship (for IM), Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship (for AS) and a Google Faculty Research Award.

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