Title
Deep Level Sets for Salient Object Detection
Abstract
Deep learning has been applied to saliency detection in recent years. The superior performance has proved that deep networks can model the semantic properties of salient objects. Yet it is difficult for a deep network to discriminate pixels belonging to similar receptive fields around the object boundaries, thus deep networks may output maps with blurred saliency and inaccurate boundaries. To tackle such an issue, in this work, we propose a deep Level Set network to produce compact and uniform saliency maps. Our method drives the network to learn a Level Set function for salient objects so it can output more accurate boundaries and compact saliency. Besides, to propagate saliency information among pixels and recover full resolution saliency map, we extend a superpixel-based guided filter to be a layer in the network. The proposed network has a simple structure and is trained end-to-end. During testing, the network can produce saliency maps by efficiently feedforwarding testing images at a speed over 12FPS on GPUs. Evaluations on benchmark datasets show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/CVPR.2017.65
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
salient object detection,deep learning,object boundaries,blurred saliency,deep Level Set network,saliency information,resolution saliency map,saliency maps,GPU,superpixel-based guided filter
Object detection,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Kadir–Brady saliency detector,Salience (neuroscience),Computer science,Level set,Feature extraction,Image segmentation,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2017
1
1063-6919
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-0458-8
26
0.65
References 
Authors
43
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ping Hu1435.12
Bing Shuai223712.51
Jun Liu367130.44
Gang Wang42869135.49