Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

Learning Sparse High Dimensional Filters: Image Filtering, Dense CRFs and Bilateral Neural Networks

2016

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Bilateral filters have wide spread use due to their edge-preserving properties. The common use case is to manually choose a parametric filter type, usually a Gaussian filter. In this paper, we will generalize the parametrization and in particular derive a gradient descent algorithm so the filter parameters can be learned from data. This derivation allows to learn high dimensional linear filters that operate in sparsely populated feature spaces. We build on the permutohedral lattice construction for efficient filtering. The ability to learn more general forms of high-dimensional filters can be used in several diverse applications. First, we demonstrate the use in applications where single filter applications are desired for runtime reasons. Further, we show how this algorithm can be used to learn the pairwise potentials in densely connected conditional random fields and apply these to different image segmentation tasks. Finally, we introduce layers of bilateral filters in CNNs and propose bilateral neural networks for the use of high-dimensional sparse data. This view provides new ways to encode model structure into network architectures. A diverse set of experiments empirically validates the usage of general forms of filters.

Author(s): Varun Jampani and Martin Kiefel and Peter V. Gehler
Book Title: IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Pages: 4452-4461
Year: 2016
Month: June

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Research Project(s): Learning Deep Representations of 3D
Efficient and Scalable Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

Event Name: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016

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@inproceedings{jampani:cvpr:2016,
  title = {Learning Sparse High Dimensional Filters: Image Filtering, Dense CRFs and Bilateral Neural Networks},
  author = {Jampani, Varun and Kiefel, Martin and Gehler, Peter V.},
  booktitle = { IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages = {4452-4461},
  month = jun,
  year = {2016},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {6}
}