Although they consider object instance contours while collecting annotations, they choose to ignore the occlusion boundaries between object instances from the same class. (5) was applied to average the RGB and depth predictions. In this section, we evaluate our method on contour detection and proposal generation using three datasets: PASCAL VOC 2012, BSDS500 and MS COCO. means of leveraging features at all layers of the net. to 0.67) with a relatively small amount of candidates ($\sim$1660 per image). The convolutional layer parameters are denoted as conv/deconv. By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our. For example, it can be used for image seg- . Interactive graph cuts for optimal boundary & region segmentation of Note that we did not train CEDN on MS COCO. Recent works, HED[19] and CEDN[13], which have achieved the best performances on the BSDS500 dataset, are two baselines which our method was compared to. 27 May 2021. Different from the original network, we apply the BN[28] layer to reduce the internal covariate shift between each convolutional layer and the ReLU[29] layer. Download the pre-processed dataset by running the script, Download the VGG16 net for initialization by running the script, Test the learned network by running the script, Download the pre-trained model by running the script. 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. The first layer of decoder deconv6 is designed for dimension reduction that projects 4096-d conv6 to 512-d with 11 kernel so that we can re-use the pooling switches from conv5 to upscale the feature maps by twice in the following deconv5 layer. a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network (CEDN). training by reducing internal covariate shift,, C.-Y. P.Arbelez, M.Maire, C.Fowlkes, and J.Malik. We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. The above proposed technologies lead to a more precise and clearer P.Rantalankila, J.Kannala, and E.Rahtu. Our refined module differs from the above mentioned methods. Measuring the objectness of image windows. Directly using contour coordinates to describe text regions will make the modeling inadequate and lead to low accuracy of text detection. evaluating segmentation algorithms and measuring ecological statistics. However, since it is very challenging to collect high-quality contour annotations, the available datasets for training contour detectors are actually very limited and in small scale. The proposed multi-tasking convolutional neural network did not employ any pre- or postprocessing step. This is the code for arXiv paper Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network by Jimei Yang, Brian Price, Scott Cohen, Honglak Lee and Ming-Hsuan Yang, 2016.. Different from previous low-level edge detection, our algorithm focuses on detecting higher-level object contours. It is composed of 200 training, 100 validation and 200 testing images. author = "Jimei Yang and Brian Price and Scott Cohen and Honglak Lee and Yang, {Ming Hsuan}". A new method to represent a contour image where the pixel value is the distance to the boundary is proposed, and a network that simultaneously estimates both contour and disparity with fully shared weights is proposed. Moreover, we will try to apply our method for some applications, such as generating proposals and instance segmentation. P.Dollr, and C.L. Zitnick. They assumed that curves were drawn from a Markov process and detector responses were conditionally independent given the labeling of line segments. elephants and fish are accurately detected and meanwhile the background boundaries, e.g. In this paper, we address object-only contour detection that is expected to suppress background boundaries (Figure1(c)). A complete decoder network setup is listed in Table. Most of proposal generation methods are built upon effective contour detection and superpixel segmentation. Papers With Code is a free resource with all data licensed under. F-measures, in, D.Eigen and R.Fergus, Predicting depth, surface normals and semantic labels HED[19] and CEDN[13], which achieved the state-of-the-art performances, are representative works of the above-mentioned second and third strategies. . A tensorflow implementation of object-contour-detection with fully convolutional encoder decoder network. Many Git commands accept both tag and branch names, so creating this branch may cause unexpected behavior. In SectionII, we review related work on the pixel-wise semantic prediction networks. Drawing detailed and accurate contours of objects is a challenging task for human beings. Our fine-tuned model achieved the best ODS F-score of 0.588. Our forests,, D.H. Hubel and T.N. Wiesel, Receptive fields, binocular interaction and Dropout: a simple way to prevent neural networks from overfitting,, Y.Jia, E.Shelhamer, J.Donahue, S.Karayev, J. The network architecture is demonstrated in Figure 2. For example, the standard benchmarks, Berkeley segmentation (BSDS500)[36] and NYU depth v2 (NYUDv2)[44] datasets only include 200 and 381 training images, respectively. blog; statistics; browse. According to the results, the performances show a big difference with these two training strategies. Long, R.Girshick, PASCAL VOC 2012: The PASCAL VOC dataset[16] is a widely-used benchmark with high-quality annotations for object detection and segmentation. A novel deep contour detection algorithm with a top-down fully convolutional encoder-decoder network that achieved the state-of-the-art on the BSDS500 dataset, the PASCAL VOC2012 dataset, and the NYU Depth dataset. We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. N2 - We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. refers to the image-level loss function for the side-output. solves two important issues in this low-level vision problem: (1) learning More related to our work is generating segmented object proposals[4, 9, 13, 22, 24, 27, 40]. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE. Due to the asymmetric nature of A computational approach to edge detection. Highlights We design a saliency encoder-decoder with adversarial discriminator to generate a confidence map, representing the network uncertainty on the current prediction. [22] designed a multi-scale deep network which consists of five convolutional layers and a bifurcated fully-connected sub-networks. Image labeling is a task that requires both high-level knowledge and low-level cues. We then select the lea. S.Liu, J.Yang, C.Huang, and M.-H. Yang. It employs the use of attention gates (AG) that focus on target structures, while suppressing . Boosting object proposals: From Pascal to COCO. In the encoder part, all of the pooling layers are max-pooling with a 2, (d) The used refined module for our proposed TD-CEDN, P.Arbelaez, M.Maire, C.Fowlkes, and J.Malik, Contour detection and connected crfs. Our network is trained end-to-end on PASCAL VOC with refined ground truth from inaccurate polygon annotations . BN and ReLU represent the batch normalization and the activation function, respectively. 3.1 Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network. TableII shows the detailed statistics on the BSDS500 dataset, in which our method achieved the best performances in ODS=0.788 and OIS=0.809. building and mountains are clearly suppressed. Different from our object-centric goal, this dataset is designed for evaluating natural edge detection that includes not only object contours but also object interior boundaries and background boundaries (examples in Figure6(b)). tentials in both the encoder and decoder are not fully lever-aged. We use the DSN[30] to supervise each upsampling stage, as shown in Fig. 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. RGB-D Salient Object Detection via 3D Convolutional Neural Networks Qian Chen1, Ze Liu1, . object detection. Figure7 shows that 1) the pretrained CEDN model yields a high precision but a low recall due to its object-selective nature and 2) the fine-tuned CEDN model achieves comparable performance (F=0.79) with the state-of-the-art method (HED)[47]. [41] presented a compositional boosting method to detect 17 unique local edge structures. We trained the HED model on PASCAL VOC using the same training data as our model with 30000 iterations. V.Ferrari, L.Fevrier, F.Jurie, and C.Schmid. Work fast with our official CLI. [19] study top-down contour detection problem. There is a large body of works on generating bounding box or segmented object proposals. Given its axiomatic importance, however, we find that object contour detection is relatively under-explored in the literature. In this section, we introduce our object contour detection method with the proposed fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. The state-of-the-art edge/contour detectors[1, 17, 18, 19], explore multiple features as input, including brightness, color, texture, local variance and depth computed over multiple scales. support inference from RGBD images, in, M.Everingham, L.VanGool, C.K. Williams, J.Winn, and A.Zisserman, The [48] used a traditional CNN architecture, which applied multiple streams to integrate multi-scale and multi-level features, to achieve contour detection. This is the code for arXiv paper Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network by Jimei Yang, Brian Price, Scott Cohen, Honglak Lee and Ming-Hsuan Yang, 2016. 41271431), and the Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Support Program, China (Project No. @inproceedings{bcf6061826f64ed3b19a547d00276532. deep network for top-down contour detection, in, J. and find the network generalizes well to objects in similar super-categories to those in the training set, e.g. . Multi-objective convolutional learning for face labeling. Object Contour Detection with a Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network. As the contour and non-contour pixels are extremely imbalanced in each minibatch, the penalty for being contour is set to be 10 times the penalty for being non-contour. 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