ProMask: Probability Mask for Skeleton Detection

12/05/2020
by   Xiuxiu Bai, et al.
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Detecting object skeletons in natural images presents challenging, due to varied object scales, the complexity of backgrounds and various noises. The skeleton is a highly compressing shape representation, which can bring some essential advantages but cause the difficulties of detection. This skeleton line occupies a rare proportion of an image and is overly sensitive to spatial position. Inspired by these issues, we propose the ProMask, which is a novel skeleton detection model. The ProMask includes the probability mask and vector router. The skeleton probability mask representation explicitly encodes skeletons with segmentation signals, which can provide more supervised information to learn and pay more attention to ground-truth skeleton pixels. Moreover, the vector router module possesses two sets of orthogonal basis vectors in a two-dimensional space, which can dynamically adjust the predicted skeleton position. We evaluate our method on the well-known skeleton datasets, realizing the better performance than state-of-the-art approaches. Especially, ProMask significantly outperforms the competitive DeepFlux by 6.2 challenging SYM-PASCAL dataset. We consider that our proposed skeleton probability mask could serve as a solid baseline for future skeleton detection, since it is very effective and it requires about 10 lines of code.

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