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  • Webly-Supervised Food Detection with Foodness Proposal Open Access

    Wataru SHIMODA  Keiji YANAI  

     
    PAPER

      Pubricized:
    2019/04/25
      Vol:
    E102-D No:7
      Page(s):
    1230-1239

    To minimize the annotation costs associated with training semantic segmentation models and object detection models, weakly supervised detection and weakly supervised segmentation approaches have been extensively studied. However most of these approaches assume that the domain between training and testing is the same, which at times results in considerable performance drops. For example, if we train an object detection network using only web images showing a large object at the center, it can be difficult for the network to detect multiple small objects. In this paper, we focus on training a CNN with only web images and achieve object detection in the wild. A proposal-based approach can address the problem associated with differences in domains because web images are similar to images of the proposal. In both domains, the target object is located at the center of the image and the ratio of the size of the target object to the size of the image is large. Several proposal methods have been proposed to detect regions with high “object-ness.” However, many of these proposals generate a large number of candidates to increase the recall rate. Considering the recent advent of deep CNNs, methods that generate a large number of proposals exhibit problems in terms of processing time for practical use. Therefore, we propose a CNN-based “food-ness” proposal method in this paper that requires neither pixel-wise annotation nor bounding box annotation. Our method generates proposals through backpropagation and most of these proposals focus only on food objects. In addition, we can easily control the number of proposals. Through experiments, we trained a network model using only web images and tested the model on the UEC FOOD 100 dataset. We demonstrate that the proposed method achieves high performance compared to traditional proposal methods in terms of the trade-off between accuracy and computational cost. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an intermediate approach between the traditional proposal approach and the fully convolutional approach. In particular, we propose a novel proposal method that generates high“food-ness” regions using fully convolutional networks based on the backward approach by training food images gathered from the web.