Learning Deep Relations to Promote Saliency Detection

Authors

  • Changrui Chen Ocean University of China
  • Xin Sun Ocean University of China
  • Yang Hua Queen's University Belfast
  • Junyu Dong Ocean University of China
  • Hongwei Xv Ocean University of China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.6622

Abstract

Though saliency detectors has made stunning progress recently. The performances of the state-of-the-art saliency detectors are not acceptable in some confusing areas, e.g., object boundary. We argue that the feature spatial independence should be one of the root cause. This paper explores the ubiquitous relations on the deep features to promote the existing saliency detectors efficiently. We establish the relation by maximizing the mutual information of the deep features of the same category via deep neural networks to break this independence. We introduce a threshold-constrained training pair construction strategy to ensure that we can accurately estimate the relations between different image parts in a self-supervised way. The relation can be utilized to further excavate the salient areas and inhibit confusing backgrounds. The experiments demonstrate that our method can significantly boost the performance of the state-of-the-art saliency detectors on various benchmark datasets. Besides, our model is label-free and extremely efficient. The inference speed is 140 FPS on a single GTX1080 GPU.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Chen, C., Sun, X., Hua, Y., Dong, J., & Xv, H. (2020). Learning Deep Relations to Promote Saliency Detection. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(07), 10510-10517. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.6622

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision