Effects of Network Depths on Semantic Image Segmentation By Weakly Supervised Learning

Abstract

Weakly Supervised Learning is one of the most interesting approaches that more complex labels are predicted by using related simple labels. In this study, we focus on segmentation problem by giving image class tags in learning stage. We examine how the number of layers and the usage of their output in Convolutional Neural Network affect the segmentation results. It is found that increasing the number of layers in the network has a positive effect on segmentation performance. After ResNet152 is determined as the most successful deep architecture in Pascal VOC2012 dataset, we construct a new architecture based on ResNet152. Experimental results show that proposed architecture outperforms the available studies tested on this particular dataset. In addition, we observe that early layers reach more general attributes for the object classes than the last layers and that these attributes can better identify the object boundaries.