EDN: Salient Object Detection via Extremely-Downsampled Network

12/24/2020
by   Yu-Huan Wu, et al.
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Recent progress on salient object detection (SOD) mainly benefits from multi-scale learning, where the high-level and low-level features work collaboratively in locating salient objects and discovering fine details, respectively. However, most efforts are devoted to low-level feature learning by fusing multi-scale features or enhancing boundary representations. In this paper, we show another direction that improving high-level feature learning is essential for SOD as well. To verify this, we introduce an Extremely-Downsampled Network (EDN), which employs an extreme downsampling technique to effectively learn a global view of the whole image, leading to accurate salient object localization. A novel Scale-Correlated Pyramid Convolution (SCPC) is also designed to build an elegant decoder for recovering object details from the above extreme downsampling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EDN achieves performance with real-time speed. Hence, this work is expected to spark some new thinking in SOD. The code will be released.

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