On Label Granularity and Object Localization
Abstract
Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) aims to learn representations that encode object location using only image-level category labels. However, many objects can be labeled at different levels of granularity. Is it an animal, a bird, or a great horned owl? Which image-level labels should we use? In this paper we study the role of label granularity in WSOL. To facilitate this investigation we introduce iNatLoc500, a new large-scale fine-grained benchmark dataset for WSOL. Surprisingly, we find that choosing the right training label granularity provides a much larger performance boost than choosing the best WSOL algorithm. We also show that changing the label granularity can significantly improve data efficiency.
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Text
Cole et al. "On Label Granularity and Object Localization." Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20080-9_35Markdown
[Cole et al. "On Label Granularity and Object Localization." Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2022/cole2022eccv-label/) doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20080-9_35BibTeX
@inproceedings{cole2022eccv-label,
title = {{On Label Granularity and Object Localization}},
author = {Cole, Elijah and Wilber, Kimberly and Van Horn, Grant and Yang, Xuan and Fornoni, Marco and Perona, Pietro and Belongie, Serge and Howard, Andrew and Aodha, Oisin Mac},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-20080-9_35},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2022/cole2022eccv-label/}
}