Saliency Detection by Deep Network with Boundary Refinement and Global Context

  • Xin Tan
  • , Hengliang Zhu
  • , Zhiwen Shao
  • , Xiaonan Hou
  • , Yangyang Hao
  • , Lizhuang Ma

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Abstract

A novel end-to-end fully convolutional neural network for saliency detection is proposed in this paper, aiming at refining the boundary and covering the global context (GBR-Net). Previous CNN based methods for saliency detection are universally accompanied with blurring edge and ambiguous salient object. To tackle this problem, we propose to embed the boundary enhancement block (BEB) into the network to refine edge. It keeps the details by the mutual-coupling con-volutionallayers. Besides, we employ a pooling pyramid that utilizes the multi-level feature informations to search global context, and it also contributes as an auxiliary supervision. The final saliency map is obtained by fusing the edge refinement with global context extraction. Experiments on four benchmark datasets prove that the proposed saliency detection model gains an edge over the state-of-the-art approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2018
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781538617373
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Oct 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2018 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 23 Jul 201827 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Volume2018-July
ISSN (Print)1945-7871
ISSN (Electronic)1945-788X

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period23/07/1827/07/18

Keywords

  • Boundary refinement
  • Global context
  • Pooling pyramid
  • Saliency detection

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