ViP-DeepLab

Authors: Siyuan Qiao, Yukun Zhu, Hartwig Adam, Alan Yuille and Liang-Chieh Chen
Affiliations: Johns Hopkins University and Google Research
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Abstract

In this paper, we present ViP-DeepLab, a unified model attempting to tackle the long-standing and challenging inverse projection problem in vision, which we model as restoring the point clouds from perspective image sequences while providing each point with instance-level semantic interpretations. Solving this problem requires the vision models to predict the spatial location, semantic class, and temporally consistent instance label for each 3D point. ViP-DeepLab approaches it by jointly performing monocular depth estimation and video panoptic segmentation. We name this joint task as Depth-aware Video Panoptic Segmentation, and propose a new evaluation metric along with two derived datasets for it, which will be made available to the public. On the individual sub-tasks, ViP-DeepLab also achieves state-of-the-art results, outperforming previous methods by 5.1% VPQ on Cityscapes-VPS, ranking 1st on the KITTI monocular depth estimation benchmark, and 1st on KITTI MOTS pedestrian.

Citation

@article{vip_deeplab,
  title={ViP-DeepLab: Learning Visual Perception with Depth-aware
         Video Panoptic Segmentation},
  author={Siyuan Qiao and Yukun Zhu and Hartwig Adam and Alan Yuille and Liang-Chieh Chen},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05258},
  year={2020}
}