Journal of South China University of Technology (Natural Science Edition) ›› 2021, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (11): 135-144.doi: 10.12141/j.issn.1000-565X.210125

Special Issue: 2021年电子、通信与自动控制

• Electronics, Communication & Automation Technology • Previous Articles    

Salient Object Detection Based on Feature Enhancement in Complex Scene

LI Bo RAO Haobo   

  1. School of Electronic and Information Engineering,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640,Guangdong,China
  • Received:2021-03-11 Revised:2021-06-15 Online:2021-11-25 Published:2021-11-01
  • Contact: 李波(1978-),男,博士,副教授,主要从事信号与信息处理、机器学习、模式识别方法等研究。 E-mail:leebo@scut.edu.cn
  • About author:李波(1978-),男,博士,副教授,主要从事信号与信息处理、机器学习、模式识别方法等研究。
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0806000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11627802, 51678249), and the State Scholarship Fund of China Scholarship Council (201806155022)

Abstract: The performance of salient object detection is greatly improved by the superior feature extraction ability of Fully Convolutional Neural Networks(FCN).However,the simple fusion strategies (feature addition or concatenation) cannot effectively enhance features,resulting in algorithms object misdetection and missed detection in complex scenes.The paper proposed a specifically feature enhancement method to improve the performance of salient object detection.Firstly,object misdetection mostly occurs in a scene where the background is cluttered or the object and the background are intertwined,so it greatly alleviate the object misdetection problem from the perspective of global enhancement and structural enhancement,respectively.Secondly,the missed detection of the object generally occurs in the interior and edge of the object,so the study introduce residual learning to learn the information of the missed region and refine the loss of the object interior and edge.Finally,comparison results between the proposed method with other 13 kinds of advanced methods over 5 benchmark datasets indicate that the proposed model is superior to other 13 methods,and the problems of object misdetection and missed detection in complex scenes were successfully solved.

Key words: fully convolutional neural networks, salient object detection, feature enhancement, object misdetection, missed detection

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