{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/stacked-cross-refinement-network-for-edge","title":"Stacked Cross Refinement Network for Edge-Aware Salient Object Detection","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2019-10-01","proceeding":"ICCV 2019 10","authors":["Zhe Wu"," Li Su"," Qingming Huang"],"abstract":"Salient object detection is a fundamental computer vision task. The majority of existing algorithms focus on aggregating multi-level features of pre-trained convolutional neural networks. Moreover, some researchers attempt to utilize edge information for auxiliary training. However, existing edge-aware models design unidirectional frameworks which only use edge features to improve the segmentation features. Motivated by the logical interrelations between binary segmentation and edge maps, we propose a novel Stacked Cross Refinement Network (SCRN) for salient object detection in this paper. Our framework aims to simultaneously refine multi-level features of salient object detection and edge detection by stacking Cross Refinement Unit (CRU). According to the logical interrelations, the CRU designs two direction-specific integration operations, and bidirectionally passes messages between the two tasks. Incorporating the refined edge-preserving features with the typical U-Net, our model detects salient objects accurately. Extensive experiments conducted on six benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art algorithms in both accuracy and efficiency. Besides, the attribute-based performance on the SOC dataset show that the proposed model ranks first in the majority of challenging scenes. Code can be found at https://github.com/wuzhe71/SCAN.\r","url_abs":"http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/html/Wu_Stacked_Cross_Refinement_Network_for_Edge-Aware_Salient_Object_Detection_ICCV_2019_paper.html","url_pdf":"http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/papers/Wu_Stacked_Cross_Refinement_Network_for_Edge-Aware_Salient_Object_Detection_ICCV_2019_paper.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"stacked-cross-refinement-network-for-edge","repo_url":"https://github.com/wuzhe71/SCAN","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"attribute","task_name":"Attribute"},{"task_slug":"edge-detection","task_name":"Edge Detection"},{"task_slug":"object","task_name":"Object"},{"task_slug":"object-detection","task_name":"Object Detection"},{"task_slug":"salient-object-detection","task_name":"RGB Salient Object Detection"},{"task_slug":"salient-object-detection-1","task_name":"Salient Object Detection"},{"task_slug":"object-detection-1","task_name":"object-detection"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"concatenated-skip-connection","method_name":"Concatenated Skip Connection"},{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"},{"method_slug":"max-pooling","method_name":"Max Pooling"},{"method_slug":"relu","method_name":"ReLU"},{"method_slug":"u-net","method_name":"U-Net"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/salient-object-detection-on-soc","task":"RGB Salient Object Detection","dataset":"SOC","model":"SCRN","rank_in_archive_order":4,"of":7,"metrics":{"Average MAE":"0.099","S-Measure":"0.838","mean E-Measure":"0.859"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}