Real Time Video Object Segmentation in Compressed Domain

Many of the recent methods for semi-supervised video object segmentation are still far from being applicable for real time applications due to their slow inference speed. Therefore, we explore a propagation based segmentation method in compressed domain to accelerate inference speed in this paper. In particular, we only extract the features of I-frames by traditional deep convolutional neural network and produce the features of P-frames through information flow propagation. In the process of feature propagation, we propose two effective components to enhance the representation ability of simply warped features in terms of appearance and location. Specifically, we propose a residual supplement module to supplement appearance information which is lost in direct warping and a spatial attention module that can mine extra spatial saliency to provide the location information of the specified object. Besides, we propose a metric based decoder module which consists of a feature match module and a multi-level refinement module to transform information from semantic representation to shape segmentation mask. Extensive experiments on several video datasets demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve comparable accuracy while much faster inference speed when compared to the state-of-the-art algorithms.