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Free Lunch for Co-Saliency Detection: Context Adjustment

4 Aug 2021arXiv:2108.02093archive 2025-07-28

Lingdong Kong, Prakhar Ganesh, Tan Wang, Junhao Liu, Le Zhang, Yao Chen

We unveil a long-standing problem in the prevailing co-saliency detection systems: there is indeed inconsistency between training and testing. Constructing a high-quality co-saliency detection dataset involves time-consuming and labor-intensive pixel-level labeling, which has forced most recent works to rely instead on semantic segmentation or saliency detection datasets for training. However, the lack of proper co-saliency and the absence of multiple foreground objects in these datasets can lead to spurious variations and inherent biases learned by models. To tackle this, we introduce the idea of counterfactual training through context adjustment and propose a "cost-free" group-cut-paste (GCP) procedure to leverage off-the-shelf images and synthesize new samples. Following GCP, we collect a novel dataset called Context Adjustment Training (CAT). CAT consists of 33,500 images, which is four times larger than the current co-saliency detection datasets. All samples are automatically annotated with high-quality mask annotations, object categories, and edge maps. Extensive experiments on recent benchmarks are conducted, show that CAT can improve various state-of-the-art models by a large margin (5% ~ 25%). We hope that the scale, diversity, and quality of our dataset can benefit researchers in this area and beyond. Our dataset will be publicly accessible through our project page.

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