Humans take advantage of real world symmetries for various tasks, yet capturing their superb symmetry perception mechanism into a computational model remains elusive. Encouraged by a new discovery (CVPR 2016) demonstrating extremely high inter-person accuracy of human perceived symmetries in the wild, we have created the first deep-learning neural network for reflection and rotation symmetry detection (Sym-NET), trained on photos from MS-COCO (Common Object in COntext) dataset with nearly 11K symmetry-labels from more than 400 human observers. We employ novel methods to convert discrete human labels into symmetry heatmaps, capture symmetry densely in an image and quantitatively evaluate Sym-NET against multiple existing computer vision algorithms. Using the symmetry competition testsets from CVPR 2013 and unseen MS-COCO photos, Sym-NET comes out as the winner with significantly superior performance over all other competitors. Beyond mathematically well-defined symmetries on a plane, Sym-NET demonstrates abilities to identify viewpoint-varied 3D symmetries, partially occluded symmetrical objects and symmetries at a semantic level.

本论文介绍了 Sym-NET，这是第一个用于检测深度学习神经网络的反射和旋转对称性的模型，在人类感知的对称性、基于图像的计算机视觉竞赛中获得了最佳表现。

超越平面对称性：模拟野外环境下人类对反射和旋转对称性的感知