Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation via Strong-weak Dual-branch Network
While existing works have explored a variety of techniques to push the envelop of weakly-supervised semantic segmentation, there is still a significant gap compared to the supervised methods. In real-world application, besides massive amount of weakly-supervised data there are usually a few available pixel-level annotations, based on which semi-supervised track becomes a promising way for semantic segmentation. Current methods simply bundle these two different sets of annotations together to train a segmentation network. However, we discover that such treatment is problematic and achieves even worse results than just using strong labels, which indicates the misuse of the weak ones. To fully explore the potential of the weak labels, we propose to impose separate treatments of strong and weak annotations via a strong-weak dual-branch network, which discriminates the massive inaccurate weak supervisions from those strong ones. We design a shared network component to exploit the joint discrimination of strong and weak annotations; meanwhile, the proposed dual branches separately handle full and weak supervised learning and effectively eliminate their mutual interference. This simple architecture requires only slight additional computational costs during training yet brings significant improvements over the previous methods. Experiments on two standard benchmark datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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