Title
Enhancing Salient Object Segmentation Through Attention.
Abstract
Segmenting salient objects in an image is an important vision task with ubiquitous applications. The problem becomes more challenging in the presence of a cluttered and textured background, low resolution and/or low contrast images. Even though existing algorithms perform well in segmenting most of the object(s) of interest, they often end up segmenting false positives due to resembling salient objects in the background. In this work, we tackle this problem by iteratively attending to image patches in a recurrent fashion and subsequently enhancing the predicted segmentation mask. Saliency features are estimated independently for every image patch, which are further combined using an aggregation strategy based on a Convolutional Gated Recurrent Unit (ConvGRU) network. The proposed approach works in an end-to-end manner, removing background noise and false positives incrementally. Through extensive evaluation on various benchmark datasets, we show superior performance to the existing approaches without any post-processing.
Year
Venue
Field
2019
CVPR Workshops
Market segmentation,Background noise,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Salience (neuroscience),Salient objects,Artificial intelligence,False positive paradox
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1905.11522
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anuj Pahuja100.34
Avishek Majumder201.35
Anirban Chakraborty3124.33
R. Venkatesh Babu4104684.83