Digging into Pseudo Label: A Low-Budget Approach for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Abstract

The capability to understand visual scenes with limited labeled data has been widely concerned in the field of computer vision. Although semi-supervised learning for image classification has been extensively studied in some cases, semantic segmentation with limited data has only recently gained attention. In this work, we follow the standard semi-supervised segmentation pipeline for image classification and propose a two-branch network that can encode strong and pseudo label spaces respectively, extracting reliable supervision information from pseudo-labels to assist in training network with strong labels. Our method outperforms previous semi-supervised methods with limited annotation cost. On standard benchmark PASCAL VOC 2012 for semi-supervised semantic segmentation, the proposed approach gains fresh state-of-the-art performance.