Salient object detection has achieved great improvement by using the Fully Convolution Network (FCN). However, the FCN-based U-shape architecture may cause the dilution problem in the high-level semantic information during the up-sample operations in the top-down pathway. Thus, it can weaken the ability of salient object localization and produce degraded boundaries. To this end, in order to overcome this limitation, we propose a novel pyramid self-attention module (PSAM) and the adoption of an independent feature-complementing strategy. In PSAM, self-attention layers are equipped after multi-scale pyramid features to capture richer high-level features and bring larger receptive fields to the model. In addition, a channel-wise attention module is also employed to reduce the redundant features of the FPN and provide refined results. Experimental analysis shows that the proposed PSAM effectively contributes to the whole model so that it outperforms state-of-the-art results over five challenging datasets. Finally, quantitative results show that PSAM generates clear and integral salient maps which can provide further help to other computer vision tasks, such as object detection and semantic segmentation.
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)(浦项科技大学)
Salient object detection (SOD) has been in the spotlight recently, yet has been studied less for high-resolution (HR) images. Unfortunately, HR images and their pixel-level annotations are certainly more labor-intensive and time-consuming compared to low-resolution (LR) images and annotations. Therefore, we propose an image pyramid-based SOD framework, Inverse Saliency Pyramid Reconstruction Network (InSPyReNet), for HR prediction without any of HR datasets. We design InSPyReNet to produce a strict image pyramid structure of saliency map, which enables to ensemble multiple results with pyramid…
City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学);Beijing Jiaotong University(北京交通大学);City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute(香港城市大学深圳研究院);Tianjin University(天津大学)
Arising from the various object types and scales, diverse imaging orientations, and cluttered backgrounds in optical remote sensing image (RSI), it is difficult to directly extend the success of salient object detection for nature scene image to the optical RSI. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep network called LV-Net based on the shape of network architecture, which detects salient objects from optical RSIs in a purely data-driven fashion. The proposed LV-Net consists of two key modules, i.e., a two-stream pyramid module (L-shaped module) and an encoder-decoder module with nested co…
Beijing Jiaotong University(北京交通大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
Feature pyramid network (FPN) based models, which fuse the semantics and salient details in a progressive manner, have been proven highly effective in salient object detection. However, it is observed that these models often generate saliency maps with incomplete object structures or unclear object boundaries, due to the \emph{indirect} information propagation among distant layers that makes such fusion structure less effective. In this work, we propose a novel Cross-layer Feature Pyramid Network (CFPN), in which direct cross-layer communication is enabled to improve the progressive fusion in …
College of Computer Science, Nankai University(南开大学计算机学院);ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学信息与通信工程学院)
Much of the recent efforts on salient object detection (SOD) have been devoted to producing accurate saliency maps without being aware of their instance labels. To this end, we propose a new pipeline for end-to-end salient instance segmentation (SIS) that predicts a class-agnostic mask for each detected salient instance. To better use the rich feature hierarchies in deep networks and enhance the side predictions, we propose the regularized dense connections, which attentively promote informative features and suppress non-informative ones from all feature pyramids. A novel multi-level RoIAlign …
Top-down saliency models produce a probability map that peaks at target locations specified by a task/goal such as object detection. They are usually trained in a fully supervised setting involving pixel-level annotations of objects. We propose a weakly supervised top-down saliency framework using only binary labels that indicate the presence/absence of an object in an image. First, the probabilistic contribution of each image region to the confidence of a CNN-based image classifier is computed through a backtracking strategy to produce top-down saliency. From a set of saliency maps of an imag…
Dalian University of Technology(大连理工大学);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学);DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴达摩院)
Most salient object detection approaches use U-Net or feature pyramid networks (FPN) as their basic structures. These methods ignore two key problems when the encoder exchanges information with the decoder: one is the lack of interference control between them, the other is without considering the disparity of the contributions of different encoder blocks. In this work, we propose a simple gated network (GateNet) to solve both issues at once. With the help of multilevel gate units, the valuable context information from the encoder can be optimally transmitted to the decoder. We design a novel g…
City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学);Beijing Jiaotong University(北京交通大学)
Despite the remarkable advances in visual saliency analysis for natural scene images (NSIs), salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) still remains an open and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Dense Attention Fluid Network (DAFNet) for SOD in optical RSIs. A Global Context-aware Attention (GCA) module is proposed to adaptively capture long-range semantic context relationships, and is further embedded in a Dense Attention Fluid (DAF) structure that enables shallow attention cues flow into deep layers to guide the generation of high-leve…
Tianjin University(天津大学);Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence(起源人工智能研究院)
Due to the advantages of real-time detection and improved performance, single-shot detectors have gained great attention recently. To solve the complex scale variations, single-shot detectors make scale-aware predictions based on multiple pyramid layers. However, the features in the pyramid are not scale-aware enough, which limits the detection performance. Two common problems in single-shot detectors caused by object scale variations can be observed: (1) small objects are easily missed; (2) the salient part of a large object is sometimes detected as an object. With this observation, we propos…
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(南京航空航天大学);University of Leicester(莱斯特大学)
Due to the more dramatic multi-scale variations and more complicated foregrounds and backgrounds in optical remote sensing images (RSIs), the salient object detection (SOD) for optical RSIs becomes a huge challenge. However, different from natural scene images (NSIs), the discussion on the optical RSI SOD task still remains scarce. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale context network, namely MSCNet, for SOD in optical RSIs. Specifically, a multi-scale context extraction module is adopted to address the scale variation of salient objects by effectively learning multi-scale contextual informa…
Deep learning solutions of the salient object detection problem have achieved great results in recent years. The majority of these models are based on encoders and decoders, with a different multi-feature combination. In this paper, we show that feature concatenation works better than other combination methods like multiplication or addition. Also, joint feature learning gives better results, because of the information sharing during their processing. We designed a Complementary Extraction Module (CEM) to extract necessary features with edge preservation. Our proposed Excessiveness Loss (EL) f…
Peking University(北京大学);Indiana University Bloomington(印第安纳大学伯明顿分校);Peking Union Medical College Hospital(北京协和医院)
One of the time-consuming routine work for a radiologist is to discern anatomical structures from tomographic images. For assisting radiologists, this paper develops an automatic segmentation method for pelvic magnetic resonance (MR) images. The task has three major challenges 1) A pelvic organ can have various sizes and shapes depending on the axial image, which requires local contexts to segment correctly. 2) Different organs often have quite similar appearance in MR images, which requires global context to segment. 3) The number of available annotated images are very small to use the latest…
School of Computer Science, Southeast University(东南大学计算机科学与工程学院)
Most of existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) methods follow the CNN-based paradigm, which is unable to model long-range dependencies across space and modalities due to the natural locality of CNNs. Here we propose the Hierarchical Cross-modal Transformer (HCT), a new multi-modal transformer, to tackle this problem. Unlike previous multi-modal transformers that directly connecting all patches from two modalities, we explore the cross-modal complementarity hierarchically to respect the modality gap and spatial discrepancy in unaligned regions. Specifically, we propose to use intra-modal…
Dalian University of Technology(大连理工大学);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室)
The main purpose of RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) is how to better integrate and utilize cross-modal fusion information. In this paper, we explore these issues from a new perspective. We integrate the features of different modalities through densely connected structures and use their mixed features to generate dynamic filters with receptive fields of different sizes. In the end, we implement a kind of more flexible and efficient multi-scale cross-modal feature processing, i.e. dynamic dilated pyramid module. In order to make the predictions have sharper edges and consistent saliency reg…
Nankai University(南开大学);University of Adelaide(阿德莱德大学)
The high computational cost of neural networks has prevented recent successes in RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) from benefiting real-world applications. Hence, this paper introduces a novel network, MobileSal, which focuses on efficient RGB-D SOD using mobile networks for deep feature extraction. However, mobile networks are less powerful in feature representation than cumbersome networks. To this end, we observe that the depth information of color images can strengthen the feature representation related to SOD if leveraged properly. Therefore, we propose an implicit depth restoration (I…
Tencent(腾讯);School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology(华南理工大学软件学院)
For object detection, how to address the contradictory requirement between feature map resolution and receptive field on high-resolution inputs still remains an open question. In this paper, to tackle this issue, we build a novel architecture, called Attention-guided Context Feature Pyramid Network (AC-FPN), that exploits discriminative information from various large receptive fields via integrating attention-guided multi-path features. The model contains two modules. The first one is Context Extraction Module (CEM) that explores large contextual information from multiple receptive fields. As …
Dalian University of Technology(大连理工大学);University of Adelaide(阿德莱德大学)
This paper proposes an Agile Aggregating Multi-Level feaTure framework (Agile Amulet) for salient object detection. The Agile Amulet builds on previous works to predict saliency maps using multi-level convolutional features. Compared to previous works, Agile Amulet employs some key innovations to improve training and testing speed while also increase prediction accuracy. More specifically, we first introduce a contextual attention module that can rapidly highlight most salient objects or regions with contextual pyramids. Thus, it effectively guides the learning of low-layer convolutional featu…
Nankai University(南开大学);ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学)
Recent progress on salient object detection (SOD) mainly benefits from multi-scale learning, where the high-level and low-level features collaborate in locating salient objects and discovering fine details, respectively. However, most efforts are devoted to low-level feature learning by fusing multi-scale features or enhancing boundary representations. High-level features, which although have long proven effective for many other tasks, yet have been barely studied for SOD. In this paper, we tap into this gap and show that enhancing high- level features is essential for SOD as well. To this end…
Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);Megvii Inc. (Face++)(旷视科技(Face++));Peking University(北京大学)
A Pyramid Attention Network(PAN) is proposed to exploit the impact of global contextual information in semantic segmentation. Different from most existing works, we combine attention mechanism and spatial pyramid to extract precise dense features for pixel labeling instead of complicated dilated convolution and artificially designed decoder networks. Specifically, we introduce a Feature Pyramid Attention module to perform spatial pyramid attention structure on high-level output and combining global pooling to learn a better feature representation, and a Global Attention Upsample module on each…
Sejong University(世宗大学);Abdul Wali Khan University(阿卜杜勒·瓦利·汗大学);Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学);Data61-CSIRO(澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织数据61研究所);University of Technology Sydney(悉尼科技大学);University of Canberra(堪培拉大学)
Salient object detection (SOD) extracts meaningful contents from an input image. RGB-based SOD methods lack the complementary depth clues; hence, providing limited performance for complex scenarios. Similarly, RGB-D models process RGB and depth inputs, but the depth data availability during testing may hinder the model's practical applicability. This paper exploits only RGB images, estimates depth from RGB, and leverages the intermediate depth features. We employ a pyramidal attention structure to extract multi-level convolutional-transformer features to process initial stage representations a…
Recent salient object detection (SOD) methods based on deep neural network have achieved remarkable performance. However, most of existing SOD models designed for low-resolution input perform poorly on high-resolution images due to the contradiction between the sampling depth and the receptive field size. Aiming at resolving this contradiction, we propose a novel one-stage framework called Pyramid Grafting Network (PGNet), using transformer and CNN backbone to extract features from different resolution images independently and then graft the features from transformer branch to CNN branch. An a…
Many modern object detectors demonstrate outstanding performances by using the mechanism of looking and thinking twice. In this paper, we explore this mechanism in the backbone design for object detection. At the macro level, we propose Recursive Feature Pyramid, which incorporates extra feedback connections from Feature Pyramid Networks into the bottom-up backbone layers. At the micro level, we propose Switchable Atrous Convolution, which convolves the features with different atrous rates and gathers the results using switch functions. Combining them results in DetectoRS, which significantly …
Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);China University of Petroleum (East China)(中国石油大学(华东));Stony Brook University(石溪大学);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室)
Recent research advances in salient object detection (SOD) could largely be attributed to ever-stronger multi-scale feature representation empowered by the deep learning technologies. The existing SOD deep models extract multi-scale features via the off-the-shelf encoders and combine them smartly via various delicate decoders. However, the kernel sizes in this commonly-used thread are usually "fixed". In our new experiments, we have observed that kernels of small size are preferable in scenarios containing tiny salient objects. In contrast, large kernel sizes could perform better for images wi…
Spectrum-driven Mixed-frequency Network for Hyperspectral Salient Object Detection
Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Ministry of Education of China(教育部光电成像技术与系统重点实验室);Chongqing Innovation Center(重庆创新中心)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab(华为诺亚方舟实验室);HKUST(香港科技大学);Sun Yat-Sen University(中山大学)
We present a flexible and high-performance framework, named Pyramid R-CNN, for two-stage 3D object detection from point clouds. Current approaches generally rely on the points or voxels of interest for RoI feature extraction on the second stage, but cannot effectively handle the sparsity and non-uniform distribution of those points, and this may result in failures in detecting objects that are far away. To resolve the problems, we propose a novel second-stage module, named pyramid RoI head, to adaptively learn the features from the sparse points of interest. The pyramid RoI head consists of th…
Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center(三星战略与创新中心)
For Convolutional Neural Network-based object detection, there is a typical dilemma: the spatial information is well kept in the shallow layers which unfortunately do not have enough semantic information, while the deep layers have a high semantic concept but lost a lot of spatial information, resulting in serious information imbalance. To acquire enough semantic information for shallow layers, Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) is used to build a top-down propagated path. In this paper, except for top-down combining of information for shallow layers, we propose a novel network called Image Pyrami…
Dalian University of Technology(大连理工大学);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学);DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团达摩院)
Existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) approaches concentrate on the cross-modal fusion between the RGB stream and the depth stream. They do not deeply explore the effect of the depth map itself. In this work, we design a single stream network to directly use the depth map to guide early fusion and middle fusion between RGB and depth, which saves the feature encoder of the depth stream and achieves a lightweight and real-time model. We tactfully utilize depth information from two perspectives: (1) Overcoming the incompatibility problem caused by the great difference between modalities, …
University of California, Santa Barbara(加州大学圣巴巴拉分校);University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校)
Recognizing instances at different scales simultaneously is a fundamental challenge in visual detection problems. While spatial multi-scale modeling has been well studied in object detection, how to effectively apply a multi-scale architecture to temporal models for activity detection is still under-explored. In this paper, we identify three unique challenges that need to be specifically handled for temporal activity detection compared to its spatial counterpart. To address all these issues, we propose Dynamic Temporal Pyramid Network (DTPN), a new activity detection framework with a multi-sca…
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院空天信息创新研究院);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Semantic segmentation of point clouds generates comprehensive understanding of scenes through densely predicting the category for each point. Due to the unicity of receptive field, semantic segmentation of point clouds remains challenging for the expression of multi-receptive field features, which brings about the misclassification of instances with similar spatial structures. In this paper, we propose a graph convolutional network DGFA-Net rooted in dilated graph feature aggregation (DGFA), guided by multi-basis aggregation loss (MALoss) calculated through Pyramid Decoders. To configure multi…
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Advanced Computer Research Center, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所智能信息处理重点实验室(先进计算机研究中心));School of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)(中国科学院大学计算机与控制工程学院);Department of Radiology, Suining Central Hospital(遂宁市中心医院放射科);Peking University(北京大学)
Many recently developed object detectors focused on coarse-to-fine framework which contains several stages that classify and regress proposals from coarse-grain to fine-grain, and obtains more accurate detection gradually. Multi-resolution models such as Feature Pyramid Network(FPN) integrate information of different levels of resolution and effectively improve the performance. Previous researches also have revealed that localization can be further improved by: 1) using fine-grained information which is more translational variant; 2) refining local areas which is more focused on local boundary…
In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation technique (ANDA) applied to the Salient Object Detection (SOD) context. Standard data augmentation techniques proposed in the literature, such as image cropping, rotation, flipping, and resizing, only generate variations of the existing examples, providing a limited generalization. Our method has the novelty of creating new images, by combining an object with a new background while retaining part of its salience in this new context; To do so, the ANDA technique relies on the linear combination between labeled salient objects and new backgroun…
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(产业技术综合研究所);Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics(江西财经大学);The University of Electro-Communications(电气通信大学)
Bottom-up and top-down visual cues are two types of information that helps the visual saliency models. These salient cues can be from spatial distributions of the features (space-based saliency) or contextual / task-dependent features (object based saliency). Saliency models generally incorporate salient cues either in bottom-up or top-down norm separately. In this work, we combine bottom-up and top-down cues from both space and object based salient features on RGB-D data. In addition, we also investigated the ability of various pre-trained convolutional neural networks for extracting top-down…
Quality-aware Selective Fusion Network for V-D-T Salient Object Detection
School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University(杭州电子科技大学自动化学院);School of Software, Shandong University(山东大学软件学院);Lishui Institute of Hangzhou Dianzi University(杭州电子科技大学丽水研究院);School of Communication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University(杭州电子科技大学通信工程学院);Hangzhou Innovation Institute, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学杭州创新研究院)
A robust and fast automatic moving object detection and tracking system is essential to characterize target object and extract spatial and temporal information for different functionalities including video surveillance systems, urban traffic monitoring and navigation, robotic. In this dissertation, I present a collaborative Spatial Pyramid Context-aware moving object detection and Tracking system. The proposed visual tracker is composed of one master tracker that usually relies on visual object features and two auxiliary trackers based on object temporal motion information that will be called …
MIMONet: Multi-scale Input and Multi-scale Output Network for Salient Object Detection
School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University(北京大学深圳研究生院电子与计算机工程学院);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室);College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University(福州大学物理与信息工程学院);School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University(山东大学控制科学与工程学院);Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学计算机科学系)
Imperial College London(伦敦帝国学院);University of Liverpool(利物浦大学)
Salient object detection(SOD) aims at locating the most significant object within a given image. In recent years, great progress has been made in applying SOD on many vision tasks. The depth map could provide additional spatial prior and boundary cues to boost the performance. Combining the depth information with image data obtained from standard visual cameras has been widely used in recent SOD works, however, introducing depth information in a suboptimal fusion strategy may have negative influence in the performance of SOD. In this paper, we discuss about the advantages of the so-called prog…
Instance segmentation can detect where the objects are in an image, but hard to understand the relationship between them. We pay attention to a typical relationship, relative saliency. A closely related task, salient object detection, predicts a binary map highlighting a visually salient region while hard to distinguish multiple objects. Directly combining two tasks by post-processing also leads to poor performance. There is a lack of research on relative saliency at present, limiting the practical applications such as content-aware image cropping, video summary, and image labeling. In this pa…
The U-shape structure has shown its advantage in salient object detection for efficiently combining multi-scale features. However, most existing U-shape based methods focused on improving the bottom-up and top-down pathways while ignoring the connections between them. This paper shows that by centralizing these connections, we can achieve the cross-scale information interaction among them, hence obtaining semantically stronger and positionally more precise features. To inspire the potential of the newly proposed strategy, we further design a relative global calibration module that can simultan…
SAMSOD: Rethinking SAM Optimization for RGB-T Salient Object Detection
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University(教育部智能计算与信号处理重点实验室,计算机科学与技术学院,安徽大学)
Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems(虚拟现实技术与系统国家重点实验室);International Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Science(国际交叉科学研究院)
Image-based salient object detection (SOD) has been extensively studied in the past decades. However, video-based SOD is much less explored since there lack large-scale video datasets within which salient objects are unambiguously defined and annotated. Toward this end, this paper proposes a video-based SOD dataset that consists of 200 videos (64 minutes). In constructing the dataset, we manually annotate all objects and regions over 7,650 uniformly sampled keyframes and collect the eye-tracking data of 23 subjects that free-view all videos. From the user data, we find salient objects in video…
VSCode: General Visual Salient and Camouflaged Object Detection with 2D Prompt Learning
Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学);Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Nankai University(南开大学);Nankai International Advanced Research Institute (SHENZHEN FUTIAN)(南开大学深圳福田国际高级研究院);Linköping University(林雪平大学);Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center(合肥综合性国家科学中心人工智能研究院)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI)(起源人工智能研究院);CETC Special Mission Aircraft System Engineering Co.Ltd(中国电子科技集团特种任务飞机系统工程技术有限公司)
Object detection is an important task in remote sensing image analysis. To reduce the computational complexity of redundant information and improve the efficiency of image processing, visual saliency models have been widely applied in this field. In this paper, a novel saliency detection model based on Contrast-weighted Dictionary Learning (CDL) is proposed for remote sensing images. Specifically, the proposed CDL learns salient and non-salient atoms from positive and negative samples to construct a discriminant dictionary, in which a contrast-weighted term is proposed to encourage the contras…
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Louisiana State University(路易斯安那州立大学电气工程与计算机科学学院)
Salient object detection plays an important part in a vision system to detect important regions. Convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods directly train their models with large-scale datasets, but what is the crucial feature for saliency is still a problem. In this paper, we establish a novel bottom-up feature named convex hull overlap (CHO), combining with appearance contrast features, to detect salient objects. CHO feature is a kind of enhanced Gestalt cue. Psychologists believe that surroundedness reflects objects overlap relationship. An object which is on the top of the others is …
Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence(起源人工智能研究院);Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学)
Conventional salient object detection models cannot differentiate the importance of different salient objects. Recently, two works have been proposed to detect saliency ranking by assigning different degrees of saliency to different objects. However, one of these models cannot differentiate object instances and the other focuses more on sequential attention shift order inference. In this paper, we investigate a practical problem setting that requires simultaneously segment salient instances and infer their relative saliency rank order. We present a novel unified model as the first end-to-end s…
Flyweight FLIM Networks for Salient Object Detection in Biomedical Images
Instituto de Computação, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)(坎皮纳斯州立大学计算机研究所);Institute of Computing Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais(米纳斯吉拉斯州天主教大学计算科学研究所);University of Rennes(雷恩大学);IRISA(IRISA研究所);Inria(法国国家信息与自动化研究所)
Beijing Jiaotong University(北京交通大学);Meituan(美团);City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学)
The popularity and promotion of depth maps have brought new vigor and vitality into salient object detection (SOD), and a mass of RGB-D SOD algorithms have been proposed, mainly concentrating on how to better integrate cross-modality features from RGB image and depth map. For the cross-modality interaction in feature encoder, existing methods either indiscriminately treat RGB and depth modalities, or only habitually utilize depth cues as auxiliary information of the RGB branch. Different from them, we reconsider the status of two modalities and propose a novel Cross-modality Discrepant Interac…