Scene Recognition and Weakly Supervised Object Localization with Deformable Part-Based Models

Weakly supervised discovery of common visual structure in highly variable, cluttered images is a key problem in recognition. We address this problem using deformable part-based models (DPM’s) with latent SVM training [6]. These models have been introduced for fully supervised training of object detectors, but we demonstrate that they are also capable of more open-ended learning of latent structure for such tasks as scene recognition and weakly supervised object localization. For scene recognition, DPM’s can capture recurring visual elements and salient objects; in combination with standard global image features, they obtain state-of-the-art results on the MIT 67-category indoor scene dataset. For weakly supervised object localization, optimization over latent DPM parameters can discover the spatial extent of objects in cluttered training images without ground-truth bounding boxes. The resulting method outperforms a recent state-of-the-art weakly supervised object localization appr...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: ICCV
• Authors: Megha Pandey, Svetlana Lazebnik
• Keywords: Computer Vision, ICCV 2011, Object Localization, Scene Recognition, Spatial Extent