object contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder decoder network

This work brings together methods from DCNNs and probabilistic graphical models for addressing the task of pixel-level classification by combining the responses at the final DCNN layer with a fully connected Conditional Random Field (CRF). Fig. We compared our method with the fine-tuned published model HED-RGB. As a result, the boundaries suppressed by pretrained CEDN model (CEDN-pretrain) re-surface from the scenes. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE. 0.588), and and the NYU Depth dataset (ODS F-score of 0.735). J. Yang and M.-H. Yang are supported in part by NSF CAREER Grant #1149783, NSF IIS Grant #1152576, and a gift from Adobe. During training, we fix the encoder parameters (VGG-16) and only optimize decoder parameters. [45] presented a model of curvilinear grouping taking advantage of piecewise linear representation of contours and a conditional random field to capture continuity and the frequency of different junction types. and previous encoder-decoder methods, we first learn a coarse feature map after This study proposes an end-to-end encoder-decoder multi-tasking CNN for joint blood accumulation detection and tool segmentation in laparoscopic surgery to maintain the operating room as clean as possible and, consequently, improve the . [57], we can get 10528 and 1449 images for training and validation. Moreover, to suppress the image-border contours appeared in the results of CEDN, we applied a simple image boundary region extension method to enlarge the input image 10 pixels around the image during the testing stage. Kivinen et al. By continuing you agree to the use of cookies, Yang, Jimei ; Price, Brian ; Cohen, Scott et al. . We notice that the CEDNSCG achieves similar accuracies with CEDNMCG, but it only takes less than 3 seconds to run SCG. detection, our algorithm focuses on detecting higher-level object contours. For a training image I, =|I||I| and 1=|I|+|I| where |I|, |I| and |I|+ refer to total number of all pixels, non-contour (negative) pixels and contour (positive) pixels, respectively. Note that a standard non-maximum suppression is used to clean up the predicted contour maps (thinning the contours) before evaluation. It turns out that the CEDNMCG achieves a competitive AR to MCG with a slightly lower recall from fewer proposals, but a weaker ABO than LPO, MCG and SeSe. Please follow the instructions below to run the code. More related to our work is generating segmented object proposals[4, 9, 13, 22, 24, 27, 40]. Xie et al. The encoder-decoder network is composed of two parts: encoder/convolution and decoder/deconvolution networks. Abstract In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised active salient object detection (SOD) method that actively acquires a small subset . visual attributes (e.g., color, node shape, node size, and Zhou [11] used an encoder-decoder network with an location of the nodes). The dataset is split into 381 training, 414 validation and 654 testing images. The proposed network makes the encoding part deeper to extract richer convolutional features. support inference from RGBD images, in, M.Everingham, L.VanGool, C.K. Williams, J.Winn, and A.Zisserman, The A Lightweight Encoder-Decoder Network for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation; Large Kernel Matters . Contour detection and hierarchical image segmentation. booktitle = "Proceedings - 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2016", Object contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network, Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding, 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2016. connected crfs. Inspired by the success of fully convolutional networks[34] and deconvolutional networks[38] on semantic segmentation, These learned features have been adopted to detect natural image edges[25, 6, 43, 47] and yield a new state-of-the-art performance[47]. The above proposed technologies lead to a more precise and clearer RGB-D Salient Object Detection via 3D Convolutional Neural Networks Qian Chen1, Ze Liu1, . Some examples of object proposals are demonstrated in Figure5(d). This work proposes a novel approach to both learning and detecting local contour-based representations for mid-level features called sketch tokens, which achieve large improvements in detection accuracy for the bottom-up tasks of pedestrian and object detection as measured on INRIA and PASCAL, respectively. Both measures are based on the overlap (Jaccard index or Intersection-over-Union) between a proposal and a ground truth mask. This work claims that recognizing objects and predicting contours are two mutually related tasks, and shows that it can invert the commonly established pipeline: instead of detecting contours with low-level cues for a higher-level recognition task, it exploits object-related features as high- level cues for contour detection. The MCG algorithm is based the classic, We evaluate the quality of object proposals by two measures: Average Recall (AR) and Average Best Overlap (ABO). [19] further contribute more than 10000 high-quality annotations to the remaining images. Contour and texture analysis for image segmentation. D.R. Martin, C.C. Fowlkes, and J.Malik. I. Considering that the dataset was annotated by multiple individuals independently, as samples illustrated in Fig. optimization. Image labeling is a task that requires both high-level knowledge and low-level cues. M.Everingham, L.J.V. Gool, C.K.I. Williams, J.M. Winn, and A.Zisserman. with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network,, D.Martin, C.Fowlkes, D.Tal, and J.Malik, A database of human segmented Detection, SRN: Side-output Residual Network for Object Reflection Symmetry T.-Y. Each side-output can produce a loss termed Lside. A contour-to-saliency transferring method to automatically generate salient object masks which can be used to train the saliency branch from outputs of the contour branch, and introduces a novel alternating training pipeline to gradually update the network parameters. PASCAL VOC 2012: The PASCAL VOC dataset[16] is a widely-used benchmark with high-quality annotations for object detection and segmentation. A deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network that generalizes well to unseen object classes from the same supercategories on MS COCO and can match state-of-the-art edge detection on BSDS500 with fine-tuning. Ming-Hsuan Yang. TD-CEDN performs the pixel-wise prediction by 1 datasets. With such adjustment, we can still initialize the training process from weights trained for classification on the large dataset[53]. Among those end-to-end methods, fully convolutional networks[34] scale well up to the image size but cannot produce very accurate labeling boundaries; unpooling layers help deconvolutional networks[38] to generate better label localization but their symmetric structure introduces a heavy decoder network which is difficult to train with limited samples. Use this path for labels during training. Being fully convolutional, our CEDN network can operate on arbitrary image size and the encoder-decoder network emphasizes its asymmetric structure that differs from deconvolutional network[38]. inaccurate polygon annotations, yielding much higher precision in object visual recognition challenge,, This is a recurring payment that will happen monthly, If you exceed more than 500 images, they will be charged at a rate of $5 per 500 images. H. Lee is supported in part by NSF CAREER Grant IIS-1453651. B.Hariharan, P.Arbelez, L.Bourdev, S.Maji, and J.Malik. Fig. Work fast with our official CLI. Being fully convolutional, the developed TD-CEDN can operate on an arbitrary image size and the encoder-decoder network emphasizes its symmetric structure which is similar to the SegNet[25] and DeconvNet[24] but not the same, as shown in Fig. CVPR 2016. N.Silberman, P.Kohli, D.Hoiem, and R.Fergus. . convolutional feature learned by positive-sharing loss for contour jimeiyang/objectContourDetector CVPR 2016 We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. 17 Jan 2017. search for object recognition,, C.L. Zitnick and P.Dollr, Edge boxes: Locating object proposals from curves, in, Q.Zhu, G.Song, and J.Shi, Untangling cycles for contour grouping, in, J.J. Kivinen, C.K. Williams, N.Heess, and D.Technologies, Visual boundary [47] proposed to first threshold the output of [36] and then create a weighted edgels graph, where the weights measured directed collinearity between neighboring edgels. Skip-connection is added to the encoder-decoder networks to concatenate the high- and low-level features while retaining the detailed feature information required for the up-sampled output. B.C. Russell, A.Torralba, K.P. Murphy, and W.T. Freeman. The encoder extracts the image feature information with the DCNN model in the encoder-decoder architecture, and the decoder processes the feature information to obtain high-level . (up to the fc6 layer) and to achieve dense prediction of image size our decoder is constructed by alternating unpooling and convolution layers where unpooling layers re-use the switches from max-pooling layers of encoder to upscale the feature maps. For example, the standard benchmarks, Berkeley segmentation (BSDS500)[36] and NYU depth v2 (NYUDv2)[44] datasets only include 200 and 381 training images, respectively. Therefore, its particularly useful for some higher-level tasks. With the same training strategy, our method achieved the best ODS=0.781 which is higher than the performance of ODS=0.766 for HED, as shown in Fig. Are you sure you want to create this branch? to 0.67) with a relatively small amount of candidates ($\sim$1660 per image). -CEDN1vgg-16, dense CRF, encoder VGG decoder1simply the pixel-wise logistic loss, low-levelhigher-levelEncoder-Decoderhigher-levelsegmented object proposals, F-score = 0.57F-score = 0.74. NeurIPS 2018. Add a The model differs from the . loss for contour detection. RCF encapsulates all convolutional features into more discriminative representation, which makes good usage of rich feature hierarchies, and is amenable to training via backpropagation, and achieves state-of-the-art performance on several available datasets. Hariharan et al. This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. H. Lee is supported in part by NSF CAREER Grant IIS-1453651. Together there are 10582 images for training and 1449 images for validation (the exact 2012 validation set). task. Different from previous low-level edge detection, our algorithm focuses on detecting higher-level object contours. For this task, we prioritise the effective utilization of the high-level abstraction capability of a ResNet, which leads. We consider contour alignment as a multi-class labeling problem and introduce a dense CRF model[26] where every instance (or background) is assigned with one unique label. and the loss function is simply the pixel-wise logistic loss. We find that the learned model generalizes well to unseen object classes from the same supercategories on MS COCO and can match state-of-the-art edge detection on BSDS500 with fine-tuning. We use the DSN[30] to supervise each upsampling stage, as shown in Fig. Edge boxes: Locating object proposals from edge. We initialize our encoder with VGG-16 net[45]. 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Traditional image-to-image models only consider the loss between prediction and ground truth, neglecting the similarity between the data distribution of the outcomes and ground truth. Observing the predicted maps, our method predicted the contours more precisely and clearly, which seems to be a refined version. UNet consists of encoder and decoder. Bibliographic details on Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network. 2.1D sketch using constrained convex optimization,, D.Hoiem, A.N. Stein, A. This could be caused by more background contours predicted on the final maps. Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI. We use the Adam method[5], to optimize the network parameters and find it is more efficient than standard stochastic gradient descent. network is trained end-to-end on PASCAL VOC with refined ground truth from Different from previous low-level edge detection, our algorithm focuses on detecting higher-level object contours. Hosang et al. HED performs image-to-image prediction by means of a deep learning model that leverages fully convolutional neural networks and deeply-supervised nets, and automatically learns rich hierarchical representations that are important in order to resolve the challenging ambiguity in edge and object boundary detection. Efficient inference in fully connected CRFs with gaussian edge Machine Learning (ICML), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Then, the same fusion method defined in Eq. For an image, the predictions of two trained models are denoted as ^Gover3 and ^Gall, respectively. 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