C-WSL: Count-guided Weakly Supervised Localization

We introduce a count-guided weakly supervised localization (C-WSL) framework with per-class object count as an additional form of image-level supervision to improve weakly supervised localization (WSL). C-WSL uses a simple count-based region selection algorithm to select high-quality regions, each of which covers a single object instance at training time, and improves WSL by training with the selected regions. To demonstrate the effectiveness of C-WSL, we integrate object count supervision into two WSL architectures and conduct extensive experiments on Pascal VOC2007 and VOC2012. Experimental results show that C-WSL leads to large improvements in WSL detection performance and that the proposed approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.

• Machine Perception

• Machine Intelligence