Title
Ensemble Learning to Perform Instance Segmentation over Synthetic Data
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Recently, deep neural networks have led the progress of instance segmentation. There are several models of neural networks, such as the Mask R-CNN network, that perform this task with good results. However, it is possible to improve the results of the Mask R-CNN network if several models of it are combined, and their results are merged using Ensemble Learning. We propose the algorithm “Simple Instance Segmentation Ensemble” that is capable of assembling the results of two Mask R-CNN networks to produce better results. In our experiments, we train several Mask R-CNN networks with synthetic images of machinery objects. In addition, these Mask R-CNN networks have different backbones and different sizes of kernels for the Gaussian Blur filter applied to the synthetic machinery images used during training. We tested the performance of these networks by predicting real images of machinery. Besides, we propose the SISE algorithm to assemble the predictions of two previously trained Mask R-CNN networks, and we obtained better results than those of the individual Mask R-CNN networks. In particular, our best result is an ensemble that has one Mask R-CNN trained with synthetic images smoothed by Gaussian Blur filter with a kernel size of 7 × 7, and another network with a kernel size of 3 × 3. Both networks have as backbone a ResNeXt 101 with FPN (Feature Pyramid Network). This ensemble has a bounding box mAP of 89.42% and a segmentation mAP of 88.34% in the real machinery test images.
Start page
313
End page
324
Volume
13018 LNCS
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Bioinformática
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85121910121
Resource of which it is part
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ISSN of the container
03029743
ISBN of the container
9783030904357
Conference
16th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2021
Source funding
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgment. M. E. LOAIZA acknowledges the financial support of the CON-CYTEC – BANCO MUNDIAL Project “Mejoramiento y Ampliación de los Servi-cios del Sistema Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica” 8682-PE, through its executing unit PROCIENCIA, within the framework of the call E041-01, Contract No. 038-2018-FONDECYT-BM-IADT-AV.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Universidad Católica San Pablo
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