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Detect Globally, Refine Locally: A Novel Approach to Saliency Detection

1 Jun 2018CVPR 2018 6archive 2025-07-28

Tiantian Wang, Lihe Zhang, Shuo Wang, Huchuan Lu, Gang Yang, Xiang Ruan, Ali Borji

Effective integration of contextual information is crucial for salient object detection. To achieve this, most existing methods based on 'skip' architecture mainly focus on how to integrate hierarchical features of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). They simply apply concatenation or element-wise operation to incorporate high-level semantic cues and low-level detailed information. However, this can degrade the quality of predictions because cluttered and noisy information can also be passed through. To address this problem, we proposes a global Recurrent Localization Network (RLN) which exploits contextual information by the weighted response map in order to localize salient objects more accurately. % and emphasize more on useful ones. Particularly, a recurrent module is employed to progressively refine the inner structure of the CNN over multiple time steps. Moreover, to effectively recover object boundaries, we propose a local Boundary Refinement Network (BRN) to adaptively learn the local contextual information for each spatial position. The learned propagation coefficients can be used to optimally capture relations between each pixel and its neighbors. Experiments on five challenging datasets show that our approach performs favorably against all existing methods in terms of the popular evaluation metrics.

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Object DetectionRGB Salient Object DetectionSaliency DetectionSalient Object Detectionobject-detection

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
RGB Salient Object Detection DUTS-TE DGRL MAE 0.049 #14 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
RGB Salient Object Detection DUTS-TE DGRL S-Measure 0.846 #14 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
RGB Salient Object Detection DUTS-TE DGRL max F-measure 0.828 #14 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
RGB Salient Object Detection DUTS-TE DGRL mean E-Measure 0.887 #14 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
RGB Salient Object Detection DUTS-TE DGRL mean F-Measure 0.790 #14 of 31 Archive leaderboard report

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