Graph Cut based Inference with Co-occurrence Statistics. Ľubor Ladický, Chris Russell, Pushmeet Kohli, Philip Torr

Graph Cut based Inference with Co-occurrence Statistics Ľubor Ladický, Chris Russell, Pushmeet Kohli, Philip Torr

Image labelling Problems Assign a label to each image pixel Geometry Estimation Image Denoising Object Segmentation Sky Building Tree Grass

Pairwise CRF models Standard CRF Energy Data term Smoothness term

Pairwise CRF models Standard CRF Energy Data term Smoothness term Restricted expressive power

Structures in CRF Taskar et al. 02 associative potentials Kohli et al. 08 segment consistency Woodford et al. 08 planarity constraint Vicente et al. 08 connectivity constraint Nowozin & Lampert 09 connectivity constraint Roth & Black 09 field of experts Ladický et al. 09 consistency over several scales Woodford et al. 09 marginal probability Delong et al. 10 label occurrence costs

Pairwise CRF models Standard CRF Energy for Object Segmentation Local context Cannot encode global consistency of labels!!

Detection Suppression If we have 1000 categories (detectors), and each detector produces 1 fp every 10 images, we will have 100 false alarms per image pretty much garbage [Torralba et al. 10, Leibe & Schiele 09, Barinova et al. 10] chair table car keyboard road table road mage from Torralba et al. 10

Encoding Co-occurrence Co-occurrence is a powerful cue [Heitz et al. '08] [Rabinovich et al. 07] Thing Thing Stuff - Stuff Stuff - Thing [ Images from Rabinovich et al. 07 ]

Encoding Co-occurrence Co-occurrence is a powerful cue [Heitz et al. '08] [Rabinovich et al. 07] Thing Thing Stuff - Stuff Stuff - Thing Proposed solutions : 1. Csurka et al. 08 - Hard decision for label estimation 2. Torralba et al. 03 - GIST based unary potential 3. Rabinovich et al. 07 - Full-connected CRF [ Images from Rabinovich et al. 07 ]

So... What properties should these global co-occurence potentials have?

1. No hard decisions Desired properties

Desired properties 1. No hard decisions Incorporation in probabilistic framework Unlikely possibilities are not completely ruled out

Desired properties 1. No hard decisions 2. Invariance to region size

Desired properties 1. No hard decisions 2. Invariance to region size Cost for occurrence of {people, house, road etc.. } invariant to image area

Desired properties 1. No hard decisions 2. Invariance to region size The only possible solution : L(x)={,, } Local context Global context Cost defined over the assigned labels L(x)

Desired properties 1. No hard decisions 2. Invariance to region size 3. Parsimony simple solutions preferred L(x)={ aeroplane, tree, flower, building, boat, grass, sky } L(x)={ building, tree, grass, sky }

Desired properties 1. No hard decisions 2. Invariance to region size 3. Parsimony simple solutions preferred 4. Efficiency

Desired properties 1. No hard decisions 2. Invariance to region size 3. Parsimony simple solutions preferred 4. Efficiency a) Memory requirements as O(n) with the image size and number or labels b) Inference tractable

Previous work Torralba et al.(2003) Gist-based unary potentials Rabinovich et al.(2007) - complete pairwise graphs Csurka et al.(2008) - hard estimation of labels present

Related work Zhu & Yuille 1996 MDL prior Bleyer et al. 2010 Surface Stereo MDL prior Hoiem et al. 2007 3D Layout CRF MDL Prior C(x) = K L(x) Delong et al. 2010 label occurence cost C(x) = Σ L K L δ L (x)

Related work Zhu & Yuille 1996 MDL prior Bleyer et al. 2010 Surface Stereo MDL prior Hoiem et al. 2007 3D Layout CRF MDL Prior C(x) = K L(x) Delong et al. 2010 label occurence cost C(x) = Σ L K L δ L (x) All special cases of our model

Inference Pairwise CRF Energy

Inference IP formulation (Schlesinger 73)

Inference Pairwise CRF Energy with co-occurence

Inference IP formulation with co-occurence

Inference IP formulation with co-occurence Pairwise CRF cost Pairwise CRF constaints

Inference IP formulation with co-occurence Co-occurence cost

Inference IP formulation with co-occurence Inclusion constraints

Inference IP formulation with co-occurence Exclusion constraints

Inference LP relaxation Relaxed constraints

Inference LP relaxation Very Slow! 80 x 50 subsampled image takes 20 minutes

Inference: Our Contribution Pairwise representation One auxiliary variable Z 2 L Infinite pairwise costs if x i Z [see technical report] *Solvable using standard methods: BP, TRW etc.

Inference: Our Contribution Pairwise representation One auxiliary variable Z 2 L Infinite pairwise costs if x i Z [see technical report] *Solvable using standard methods: BP, TRW etc. Relatively faster but still computationally expensive!

Inference using Moves Graph Cut based move making algorithms [Boykov et al. 01] Series of locally optimal moves Each move reduces energy Optimal move by minimizing submodular function Current Solution Search Neighbourhood Move Space (t) : 2 N N L Number of Variables Number of Labels Space of Solutions (x) : L N α-expansion transformation function

Inference using Moves Graph Cut based move making algorithms [Boykov, Veksler, Zabih. 01] α-expansion transformation function

Inference using Moves Co-occurence representation Label indicator functions

Inference using Moves Move Energy Cost of current label set

Inference using Moves Move Energy Decomposition to α-dependent and α-independent part α-independent α-dependent

Inference using Moves Move Energy Decomposition to α-dependent and α-independent part Either α or all labels in the image after the move

Inference using Moves Move Energy submodular non-submodular

Inference Move Energy non-submodular Non-submodular energy overestimated by E'(t) E'(t) = E(t) for current solution E'(t) E(t) for any other labelling

Inference Move Energy non-submodular Non-submodular energy overestimated by E'(t) E'(t) = E(t) for current solution E'(t) E(t) for any other labelling Occurrence - tight

Inference Move Energy non-submodular Non-submodular energy overestimated by E'(t) E'(t) = E(t) for current solution E'(t) E(t) for any other labelling Co-occurrence overestimation

Inference Move Energy non-submodular Non-submodular energy overestimated by E'(t) E'(t) = E(t) for current solution E'(t) E(t) for any other labelling General case [See the paper]

Inference Move Energy non-submodular Non-submodular energy overestimated by E'(t) E'(t) = E(t) for current solution E'(t) E(t) for any other labelling Quadratic representation

Application: Object Segmentation Standard MRF model for Object Segmentation Label based Costs Cost defined over the assigned labels L(x)

Training of label based potentials Label set costs Approximated by 2 nd order representation Indicator variables for occurrence of each label

Methods Segment CRF Experiments Segment CRF + Co-occurrence Potential Associative HCRF [Ladický et al. 09] Associative HCRF + Co-occurrence Potential Datasets MSRC-21 Number of Images: 591 Number of Classes: 21 Training Set: 50% Test Set: 50% PASCAL VOC 2009 Number of Images: 1499 Number of Classes: 21 Training Set: 50% Test Set: 50%

MSRC - Qualitative

VOC 2010-Qualitative

Quantitative Results MSRC-21 PASCAL VOC 2009

Summary and further work Incorporated label based potentials in CRFs Proposed feasible inference Open questions Optimal training method for co-occurence Bounds of graph cut based inference Questions?