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F3Net: Fusion, Feedback and Focus for Salient Object Detection

by Jun Wei, Shuhui Wang, Qingming Huang

Introduction

frameworkMost of existing salient object detection models have achieved great progress by aggregating multi-level features extracted from convolutional neural networks. However, because of the different receptive fields of different convolutional layers, there exists big differences between features generated by these layers. Common feature fusion strategies (addition or concatenation) ignore these differences and may cause suboptimal solutions. In this paper, we propose the F3Net to solve above problem, which mainly consists of cross feature module (CFM) and cascaded feedback decoder (CFD) trained by minimizing a new pixel position aware loss (PPA). Specifically, CFM aims to selectively aggregate multi-level features. Different from addition and concatenation, CFM adaptively selects complementary components from input features before fusion, which can effectively avoid introducing too much redundant information that may destroy the original features. Besides, CFD adopts a multi-stage feedback mechanism, where features closed to supervision will be introduced to the output of previous layers to supplement them and eliminate the differences between features. These refined features will go through multiple similar iterations before generating the final saliency maps. Furthermore, different from binary cross entropy, the proposed PPA loss doesn’t treat pixels equally, which can synthesize the local structure information of a pixel to guide the network to focus more on local details. Hard pixels from boundaries or error-prone parts will be given more attention to emphasize their importance. F3Net is able to segment salient object regions accurately and provide clear local details. Comprehensive experiments on five benchmark datasets demonstrate that F3Net outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on six evaluation metrics.

Prerequisites

Clone repository

git clone git@github.com:weijun88/F3Net.git
cd F3Net/

Download dataset

Download the following datasets and unzip them into data folder

Download model

Training

    cd src/
    python3 train.py

Testing

    cd src
    python3 test.py

Saliency maps & Trained model

Evaluation

    cd eval
    matlab
    main

Citation

@inproceedings{F3Net,
  title     = {F3Net: Fusion, Feedback and Focus for Salient Object Detection},
  author    = {Jun Wei, Shuhui Wang, Qingming Huang},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year      = {2020}
}