Title
Basnet: Boundary-Aware Salient Object Detection
Abstract
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have been adopted for salient object detection and achieved the state-of-the-art performance. Most of the previous works however focus on region accuracy but not on the boundary quality. In this paper,we propose a predict-refine architecture, BASNet, and a new hybrid loss for Boundary-Aware Salient object detection. Specifically, the architecture is composed of a densely supervised Encoder-Decoder network and a residual refinement module, which are respectively in charge of saliency prediction and saliency map refinement. The hybrid loss guides the network to learn the transformation between the input image and the ground truth in a three-level hierarchy -pixel-, patch- and map- level- by fusing Binary Cross Entropy (BCE), Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) and Intersection-over-Union (IoU) losses. Equipped with the hybrid loss, the proposed predict-refine architecture is able to effectively segment the salient object regions and accurately predict the fine structures with clear boundaries. Experimental results on six public datasets show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods both in terms of regional and boundary evaluation measures. Our method runs at over 25 fps on a single GPU. The code is available at: https://github.com/NathanUA/BASNet.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CVPR.2019.00766
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer vision,Salient object detection,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Artificial intelligence
Conference
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
0.54
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuebin Qin1192.23
Zichen Zhang2190.88
Chenyang Huang3232.62
Chao Gao4425.78
Masood Dehghan5497.11
Martin Jagersand610010.96